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OddFish

Experienced Reefer
Can you identify the following hitchhikers (pictures will be submitted for Hitchhikers FAQ)?
Thank you!

1. Unknown.jpg - tube with colorless tectacles, not octocorallia or aiptasia.
2. Colonial turnicates? White dots on red background.
3. Some kind of mollusk.
 

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OddFish

Experienced Reefer
4. Some kind of very thin worm.
5. Pink encrusting something. No central or multiple openings.
6. Orange, thanslucent encrusting base, with kind of protruding feather dusters.
 

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LeslieH1

Experienced Reefer
4. digitate hydroid
5. pink sponge
6. orange sponge with sabellid polychaetes
8. yes, yellow sponge
9. coral hermit crab, Paguritta sp.

2 - image not clear enough for phylum id
 

OddFish

Experienced Reefer
Thank you!
Continue:
10, 11. Hydroids?
12. Top view of already posted mollusk.
 

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OddFish

Experienced Reefer
13. Red slime - cyanobacteria?
14. Worm-like, attached.
15. Small feather duster in cone-shaped tube.
 

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OddFish

Experienced Reefer
16, 17. Feather dusters, another kind.
18. Flabelligerid (iridescent) and the barnacle above it (ducking movements), right? On the same Christmas tree rock.
 

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OddFish

Experienced Reefer
22. Hair-thin green algae.
23. Short fan-like green algae.
24. Ulva-looking algae, only long folded shape.
 

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OddFish

Experienced Reefer
25. Red turf algae? Wire-like.
26, 27. Red turf algae? Short wider leaves.
 

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