Tunicate ID?!

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Same frag photo about 1-2 months from encrusting on a zoa frag to red growth today

I assume it is a tunicate but cannot find a specific name for this one.

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looks like red bubble algae
 
it’s tough to get a better image.

I would say it is close to 1” in height now.
 

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Need some better pics, try to zoom in and adjust the focus.
Also, @ISpeakForTheSeas
The encrusting stuff may have been tunicates, but the pic is too blurry to say for sure.

OP, do the new red growths have two holes at the top of each bubble? If so, that would mean they're tunicates; if not, then a Botryocladia species (red bubble/red grape algae would be my guess).
 

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