something strange poking out of my live rock. Help identify?

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something strange poking out of my live rock. Help identify?

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just saw this yesterday. Have had this piece of live rock for 4-5 months now and this is the first strange creature/anything I've seen from it. It looks like a white jelly/fuzzy tube and seems to be getting bigger. I poked it with a feeding stick to see if it would do anything, it didn't, it seems pretty soft. a sponge? some kind of coral? should I be worried?

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Looks like a polyp.
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is that bad? i don't mind it being there, just curious because I haven't seen it until the last couple days
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Re: something strange poking out of my live rock. Help identify?

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I can't tell what it is for sure but you're going to find tons of cool, wonderful creatures popping out of your LR. 99% of it is harmless.
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pineapple sponge.

They are good but if the water quality isn't 100% then they reproduce like rabbits.
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