Root like things coming out of rock

[xinumaster]

spaghetti worm?

 

[Tamazula]

I know exactly what you're talking about and I have no idea what it is either. Doesn't seem to bother anything. I'll try to get a photo and look at it with a magnifying glass tonight.

 

[Tamazula]

These things, right?

 

[Crabby]

If they are hard: foraminiferans. If they are soft: sponges. If they have no branches and a little red tuft: worms

 

[Coral reefer]

Tamazula vics pic is the ones

 

[melly mel]

Exactly what I was talking about as well.

 

[GreshamH]

If they are hard: foraminiferans. If they are soft: sponges. If they have no branches and a little red tuft: worms

IMO none of the above. Not a sponge, not hard and not a worm. But of course the name is escaping me so off i go fo hit thw books.

 

[JAR]

Red box is the feather duster part.
1/2 - 3/4 of an inch long.

 

[Erick]

Definitely two different things.

 

[Coral reefer]

Cool pic! The stuff I was curious about is shown in vics pic. Yours seems different, maybe just magnified?

 

[yardartist]

I used magnification, without moving the rock, and what I have does have clear feather parts at the ends. Had always been looking at them in hand and the feathers retracted. All less than half and inch long. Most quarter or so.

 

[GreshamH]

These things, right?

My comment was in response to this pic.

 

[JAR]

Clearly those are roots

 

[sfboarders]

Those are the same things that I posted in my thread. They are growing everywhere. I had a bunch on my locline I ended up taking it off and soaking it in vinegar.

 

[Coral reefer]

John, yours look like they have color to them, seems like algae to me. These I've only ever seen growing out if rocks, and never in overwhelming abundance

 

[Tamazula]

Still no ideas on what they are though, with all the experts on this site and a pic?

 

[CookieJar]

I have some of those too and just figured they're 'rock roots' and removing them would stunt the rock's growth.

 

[houser]

Bryozoan

 

[Tamazula]

Rad, thanks Dave.