Yellow 'eggs" & pink thing.

[MartinJ]

Can anyone tell me what these are please, the 'eggs' are about the size of a grain of rice the pink thing has a roundish body 3/4 inch diameter with a tube structure that it can open at both ends. Found when turning over a piece of live rock.

 

[Chucker]

"open at both ends" is a key ID point. I'd say you have a bunch of nice tunicates.

 

[MartinJ]

Thanks - I think you're right about the yellow 'eggs' being tunicates. Can the pink thing be laying them or is it a completely unconnected?

Another pic of the pink 'thing' with its tube open at both ends.

 

[bleedingthought]

Whatever the pink thing is it looks scary! 8O

 

[SnowManSnow]

yea.. dont lick it

 

[bleedingthought]

Don't let it lick you either!

 

[MartinJ]

Just have to hope my fish don't lick it either :lol:
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[MartinE]

The yellow things are Tunicates, The pink thing? Does it look like its eating the Tunicates? If so then maybe its a Nudibranch of some sort hard to tell in the pics.

 

[MartinJ]

No I think its a filter feeder taking in water at one end an expelling at the other. It doesn't seem to move around - just open and close its 'mouths' from time to time.