Sorry for that ID#13

I'm sure I am getting to be a pain with all my ID's, but its fun , anyways! I was looking at a Coral when I seen this for the first time growing out of my sand bed, it's soft and I can seen either little tenticles or the start of some polyps coming out of the top which can't be seen in the pic, hard to desribe the body color, but any of you seen anything like this in your tanks?

 

Hard to tell without a sharper pic. Very interesting. My first though was a Nemolara? sp algae but the soft body rules it out.

 

I tried to get a better pic, that camera is just awful, but the body is kind of transparent and you can see green and white markings inside it, and their is for sure tentacle like fingers on the top.

 

Should I dig it out

 

No I would leave it if it is doing no harm. Biodiversity is too cool to lose.

 

yea i guess! so curious to what that is, I am 95% certain its not a plant, guess let it grow and see what happens.

 

Won't be the first time, but i think i may be 95% wrong, after further investigation, this may be a Shaving brush, I'm only wondering how it got way over there from the 2 plants I do have in my tank. Things that make you go hhmmm!!

 

They can release spores into the water, and that does sound reasonable based on your description.

 

SAY WHAT!!! They release spores? I thought they grew by runners, you can see its a nice looking plant and I like it, but I don't want them all over the place, hahaha!! specially where that new one is.