Please identify?

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  1. MrAnderson

    MrAnderson Spanish Shawl Nudibranch

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    New life growing in my filter compartment. Please help identify. Maybe tunicates?
     

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  3. cosmo

    cosmo Giant Squid

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    looks like pods to me!
     
  4. Mr. Bill

    Mr. Bill Native Floridian

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    Pics are a little blurry, but they look like pineapple sponges.
     
  5. cosmo

    cosmo Giant Squid

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    man i need glasses!
     
  6. MrAnderson

    MrAnderson Spanish Shawl Nudibranch

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    Lol, your sight is most likely ok, my pics are a bit blurry.
     
  7. reefmonkey

    reefmonkey Giant Squid

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    Scypha (pineapple) sponges. Harmless filter feeders. The population will fall off eventually.
     
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  9. SushiGirl

    SushiGirl Barracuda

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    And the little hard spirals are spirobid feather duster worms.
     
  10. redfishsc

    redfishsc Feather Duster

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    Agreed with all the above, you probably have "one of each" in terms of hitch-hiker filter feeders and copepods.
     
  11. Ashevillian

    Ashevillian Pajama Cardinal

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    I see many things, pods,tiny feather dusters, sponges, and again probably a few species of pods
     
  12. civiccars2003

    civiccars2003 Great Blue Whale

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    Yes. I see that and pineapple sponges.