Help identifying these purple and orange things (algae, sponge..mushroom??)
 

I have a lot of these little things growing in my tank. They are purplish with orange dots. The largest ones are the size of a smarty.

My water parameters are all within the normal ranges other than my ph which has been a little low. Nitrate 0, Phos 0, nitrite 0, ammonia 0 but was up to 25 2 weeks ago after my eel died when we were on holidays and it decomped a little in the water. I got it out in one piece though and levels are back to zero after 3 water changes.

Anyways, here are a few crappy iPhone pics. Hopefully they are good enough for a ID.

THANKS GUYS!

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I vote for alien spore.

Those are some insane colours for a sponge (?).

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do you know from which planet? I'd really like to ID these things. Ha ;)

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Alien coral hyrbrid eggs. Have you notice your clown fish has been wearing a tinfoil hat latley .:lol:

You have so many. Take one out and dissect it.
Are they hard, soft, liquid inside?

Help identifying these purple and orange things (algae, sponge..mushroom??)
 

Frag em, stick em to a ceramic plug, and sell em for a fortune! Lol

So, I took one out a dissected it. It was pretty stuck to the power head but when I gave it a good tug it came right off. When I cut into it, it was just kinda full of snot. Haha. It was just clear thin gelatinous grossness. I don't think that helped at all with my ID though.

Anyone else have any other ideas. Since they all kind of showed up within a week or so, I'm worried they're something harmful.

Thanks again.

It's a form of bubble algae

It is actually it's valonia with blue sponge growing over it so it's algae and sponge;)

Looks cool though :)

u sure thats not just the reflection of blue lights on it?

I was thinking bubble algae as well - Id just never seen any this color. I'll start treating it as such, and see how I go. Thanks for the replies everyone!

The bubble algae that I have seen has clear thin watery fluid

I'm pretty sure that belongs to a type of red bubble algae.

ferret, I think you are right on. Along with all you other folks, spitfire being the first
I found this on the net

http://www.nano-reef.com/topic/23854...-algaekind-of/

so, not alien then? Learn something new everyday !

buy couple Emerald Crab
if the bubble algae is on one piece of LR just take out that rock and clean the bubble algae of the rock

Looked around and found Botryocladia skottsbergii to be a possible ID.