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This small tentacled thing has been floating around my tank for about 4 months that I've noticed it resembles a very small torch coral frag. It is about the size of a pea or glows under the blues like a coral. I did have a large hammer coral but it died about a year ago so idk where this thing might have came from. The black spot in the picture is the "bottom" it has what looks like a small stony base with the little arms growing off of it... like a coral. It has been on my sand bed rolling around with the flow sometimes it gets buried but it always pops back up somewhere

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Sorry, but can you take better photo under white light, as from the one here can't see almost anything. If it's coral, it look like frogspawn to (upside down) but nothing else can see which can give ID on it.
 

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Pic is a little heavy in blue light to determine. Please use or add white light
 
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Sorry, but can you take better photo under white light, as from the one here can't see almost anything. If it's coral, it look like frogspawn to (upside down) but nothing else can see which can give ID on it.
That is the best I can get but it does look like a tiny frog spawn. Pardon my dino intrusion I'm working on that. Is that a possible hitchhiker that only appeared after over a year. I've never had frog spawn in my tank.
 

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Bleached mushroom?
Can be, but the OP say have stonny base (isn't looking like attached to it).
Thinking more and reading again your description, can be and torche, and look better when it retract is it possible to be hammer ?
 
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Can be, but the OP say have stonny base (isn't looking like attached to it).
Thinking more and reading again your description, can be and torche, and look better when it retract is it possible to be hammer ?
Best shot I can get these are the tips of chopsticks to give an idea of size it does look like it has a tiny stony base
 

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+1 frog spawn or torch :)
But also you can be right from the prev. post.
I zoom the new photos and it look like mushroom which can be attached to stony base. @ZeroShadez do you have that SP mushroom in your tank? If, it can be one resembled from bigger one and this just you see swimming around looking for the right spot (normal for mushrooms, almost the same like the anemones do.
I can't see separate branches on it, and it look to me it have complete base, from where the small "bubbles" like tentacles come like on the Ricordea.
 

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