Weird appendage coming off of my mushroom.

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Hi guys have a BioCube 16 reef tank. Couple of fish soft corals mushrooms and inverts. I was just up at blue fish aquariums in Mayfield heights Ohio last week. They had just broken down a big tank and had a bunch of discount mushrooms that I just couldn't resist. So when I got them all home one of them unrolled and was about 3in diameter and now appears to have what I can only describe as a siphon similar to what comes off of a snail?? I have never encountered this before and wanted to see if you guys could help me identify. Best I can tell it is attached to the the mushroom but it certainly is possible that is it a separate organism. any help would be greatly appreciated I want to make sure I'm caring for this thing properly.
Lol maybe this one's just well endowed.
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Its a tunicate
 
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Welcome to R2R!!! Tunicate or sponge.

Thanks for the warm welcome! I have to put an update on this because its appearance seems to have changed and now it looks like some sort of polyp.

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