I hope this is the appropriate place for this thread. I've got a couple of things growing on some live rock that weren't there when I started...and quite frankly I don't know what to make of them. It'd be nice to know that these things are something cool that is desireable instead of an omen of some sort like...I added too much calcium and I had my lights on for too long.
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http://img174.imageshack.us/img174/138/ ... 004ih9.jpg
http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/5757 ... 005yk6.jpg
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The thing is question looks like a reddish leaf. I have another one that is a brilliant purple but I couldn't get a good shot of it. I tried taking several pictures of it because if you look at it the wrong way you could easily mistake it for a mushroom or something, but rest assured it is pretty flat. It just looks like a leaf sprouting up. Any ideas on what this is?
This other thing:
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The blueish looking bubble on the rock. This is a rock I got from Ned that had a bunch of tube worms on it...he received it as a trade in of some sort. The tube worms seem to be alive. This little blue bubble I'm not sure that it has grown or shrunk or done anything since I've had it but it definitely looks organic to me. Is it something that was once alive and is now dead? Is it alive? Is it Iron Man? I don't know but any insight anyone can provide me on these items I'd great appreciate.
To anyone who is interested, the tank seems to be doing quite well. I haven't been keeping up with checking levels as consistently as I should but everyone seems happy and I've been running since late October. No fights with the blue damsel, he seems to have relaxed quite a bit.
I've got coralline algae popping up all over. But like Ned I think it seems to be growing more on the tank walls than on the rocks! DOH!