What is this thing!?!? Some weird blob showed up on one of my corals!

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Need some help identifying this thing. I recently have had a issue the past month with something eating my pally zoas. Could this be it??!?

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Need some help identifying this thing. I recently have had a issue the past month with something eating my pally zoas. Could this be it??!?

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Hard to tell but my best guess is some sort of sponge. Does it move or is it stationary?
 

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Looks somewhat like valonia aka bubble algae. Remove it if you can, sometimes a gentle tug will pop it off.
 
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Hard to tell but my best guess is some sort of sponge. Does it move or is it stationary?
Didn’t really seem spongy...almost seemed jelly/slug like and just appeared overnight. When I poked it it shrunk into basically nothing. I did a coral dip and pretty much vanished...
 
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Wonder if it is an aiptasia... Bigger problem.
No definitely not. It was literally a jelly like blob that when I poked it flattened out into nothing. It appeared literally overnight.
 
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Looks somewhat like valonia aka bubble algae. Remove it if you can, sometimes a gentle tug will pop it off.
Definitely not bubble algae. Was jelly...I poked it and it shrunk into basically nothing. Coral x dipped and it vanished.
 
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Hard to tell but my best guess is some sort of sponge. Does it move or is it stationary?
Not a sponge it was more jelly...it appeared overnight as if it crawled on the frag.
I can't say I ran into anything like it. Jelly makes me think of hydroids or anemones as many move.
yeah no idea either...no anemone in the tank.
 

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