What are these bright orange speck spawns?

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Woke up this morning to find my tank covered in these bright orange specks . I have mostly lps and mushrooms . Are these possibly jawbreaker spawns?

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I had similar fluorescent blobs show up that matched the two predominant colors of my Ricordas (green and orange). Kept seeing them for months and I tried to get them to settle on pieces of live rock rubble, but no luck:

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Do you have hermit crabs? When my pair of Dwarf Zebra Hermits passed, that's when I noticed that the blobs stopped appearing. Might be coincidence, but it's possible that they were nipping off the Ricordia's tentacles tips at night.

If they are a true mushroom spawn, then they should settle out in a few days and stay attached to the rock.
 

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May be speckled krakatoa zoa coral
 
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I had similar fluorescent blobs show up that matched the two predominant colors of my Ricordas (green and orange). Kept seeing them for months and I tried to get them to settle on pieces of live rock rubble, but no luck:

Flourescent Blobs in a Shotglass_051217.jpg


Do you have hermit crabs? When my pair of Dwarf Zebra Hermits passed, that's when I noticed that the blobs stopped appearing. Might be coincidence, but it's possible that they were nipping off the Ricordia's tentacles tips at night.

If they are a true mushroom spawn, then they should settle out in a few days and stay attached to the rock.

I don't have any hermits in my tank. would be nice to be jawbreaker spawns all over lol. Will update if these develop . its all over the tank
 

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