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Red and, a clear tubular do-hicky.
Clear dude looks hollow with an opened end . Directly above "redman" .
Red man looks like a little grape fruit juice cell.

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Red is bubble algae. Remove it without popping it. Popping it will make it spread.
Clear tube is a type of sponge. Harmless filter feeder. But if it bothers you, you can scrape it off.
 
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Red is bubble algae. Remove it without popping it. Popping it will make it spread.
Clear tube is a type of sponge. Harmless filter feeder. But if it bothers you, you can scrape it off.
Well then...I guess this case is closed. Well done ma'am. Thanks.
 

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Well then...I guess this case is closed. Well done ma'am. Thanks.
I've been wrong before... don't close it just yet. Lol someone more knowledgeable than me may chime in. I just had a green bubble like yours last week, so that's still fairly fresh in my memory. And I know bubble algae generally comes in red and green. So I figure it's a pretty good chance that's the red version.
 

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Red looks like red macro algae and the clear stuff might be a decaying sponge. The red macro algae should be removed because it will choke out corals. Although it is neat looking it can grow rather large. I also see what might be a glass anemone or some type of hitchhiker just to the right of the other stuff, I would keep an eye on it..
 
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Red looks like red macro algae and the clear stuff might be a decaying sponge. The red macro algae should be removed because it will choke out corals. Although it is neat looking it can grow rather large. I also see what might be a glass anemone or some type of hitchhiker just to the right of the other stuff, I would keep an eye on it..
I accidentally came across a thread on here with some people talking about this glass anemone looking creature. They were saying that there are two different types and they look very similar but a good way to tell them apart is to poke one and if it retracts, that it is the poisonous type.
 
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I've been wrong before... don't close it just yet. Lol someone more knowledgeable than me may chime in. I just had a green bubble like yours last week, so that's still fairly fresh in my memory. And I know bubble algae generally comes in red and green. So I figure it's a pretty good chance that's the red version.
Well dang gum maggie..its to late meow .
I've done removed it and gave it a new home down my sink drain.
 
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Red looks like red macro algae and the clear stuff might be a decaying sponge. The red macro algae should be removed because it will choke out corals. Although it is neat looking it can grow rather large. I also see what might be a glass anemone or some type of hitchhiker just to the right of the other stuff, I would keep an eye on it..
Actually..I see now what you was talking about with the "glass anemone" . I don't know about that booger but there is another on the far right side of the same rock that is thought to be poisonous. It does retract .
 
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