Two new discoveries

I love Live Rock.:xmas: Every time I have taken a close up photo to show y'all I have found a new organism or two.

Here are two for today:

While taking the pic of my unidentified coral I noticed this:




As I enlarged the image I came upon this:





Any idea as to What these are?

 

It looks like a branch of macroalgae, without the green color.

 

Both of 'em?

 

rip them out before you have a tank full of caulerpa instead of beautiful corals.then get more hermits and snails and maybe a fish that likes to eat algae

 

The top picture is of the halimeda variety of calcarious algae. The other photo with the redmarking is also a form of very brittle, branching calcarious algae. The halimeda though looks like it is being taken over by brown diatom algae.

 

I could have sworn I saw some bryopsis in there as well... no good.

Hope it's just me...

 

I thought so too but it's too blurry for a positive i.d.

 

KOgle and Amcrrig,


If you can clue me in as to where it is I can take a better photo.

 

The green "fern looking" algae in the bottom right of the pictures you posted.

 

the top pic is algae no doubt, but the bottom one, could be some kind of hard coral, need better pic to Id it