Sump creatures - is it normal?

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Hello everyone,

I would like to ask you if you have somehow seen such visitors in your sump, or aquarium, or you have experience on what must be done incase they appear.

Was in Thailand and found in one of the shops with different types of Macro Algae that isnt available where i stay, like red pom pom Algae and Sea grape, other leafy macro algae just grow out of no where, i guess small peice was attached and found its way to grow. (cost is 8.5$ for both).
I put them in different baskets in the sump to control it If something goes wrong and today when im cleaning, noticed these few things, is it something normal, or needs more attention.

1- White sponge around the sump glass, saw it also on some snails back.
2- some white and little reddish worms.
3- some greenish dirts under the seagrape, looks like the algae has waste
4- small brittle starfish red color, mostly it tiny attached to some algae and survived holding around the seagrape.

Thanks in advance

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is it something normal, or needs more attention.

1- White sponge around the sump glass, saw it also on some snails back.
2- some white and little reddish worms.
3- some greenish dirts under the seagrape, looks like the algae has waste
4- small brittle starfish red color, mostly it tiny attached to some algae and survived holding around the seagrape.
It's normal - hitchhikers come in on all sorts of stuff.

All of the hitchhikers you got should be harmless/beneficial.
 
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Thank you everyone for answer. It seems the one should keep watching what next will show up. Hopefully all the visitors will be harmless. :D
 

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Thank you everyone for answer. It seems the one should keep watching what next will show up. Hopefully all the visitors will be harmless. :D
I'm still finding stuff 5 months later
 

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