Weird stuff I have found on my live rock.

So I bought like 25lbs of uncured live rock for the Biocube for my son and after everything is getting settled there is a bunch of macro algaes growing and some other stuff I am not to sure about. So here is some pictures...

The second picture has two things in it. The brown discs and there is little green mushroom/clover looking things. They are pretty small and hard to get a good picture of it.

 

the brown disc is a clam shell. the green things i have no idea

 

I really don't think its a clam shell because theres a bunch of the in that little cluster and they are soft not hard. Here's another picture of them. Sorry about the blurry pictures I was having trouble keeping the fish away lol.

 

Looks a bit like padina to me. It's a type of macroalgae

 

im agreeing with whippy on the padina. it probably wont last long, will just kinda fade away.

 

Look up Lobophora sp. and see if the pics/description match your brown discs.

The green stuff looks like a macro I saw once but can't remember what it is called.

 

Its definitely padina as this looks exactly like it.


Any idea on the clover/mushroom looking thing or the other green cork screw looking algae?

 

I also want to know what those things on the second picture are.

 

Acebulateria spp. possibly starbulletin.com | News | /2006/10/31/

 

That looks like it could be it.