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it looks like a tunicate.

Okay. Which piece of live rock is being talked about? the one that has diatoms on it, or the one below it that has coral on it along with some type of macro algae?

It looks like caulerpa. You can let it grow, but it grows pretty fast in right conditions, so keep it trimmed small. Or you can totally remove it. That is a coral on your rock, but I'm not sure what kind...

are you planning on adding corals to it eventually?

Featherdusters? there are a few different varieties, and are kind of cool.

https://www.saltwaterfish.com/vb/showthread.php?t=281892

Sponges are very hard to keep. first, they cannot touch air, or it damages/kills them second, they are mostly not photosynthetic, and require feeding. they are filter feeders and need lots of current running past them in order to feed.

yeah. this happened to me once. but it was beacause salt got in the outlet

Oh, sorry, I thought you were talking about the kind of lace rock that is mined from dead reefs in the ocean, not the kind of lace rock found on land that is volcanic...

Featherdusters do not like to be moved. And yes, they will sometimes lose their crown. I suspect since it lost only some, it is due to the stress of moving? Because usually, If it were due to poor water quality, they would discard their entire crown. Don't worry, they will grow back, even if it...

Freshwater angel, he hasn't figured out that there are fish in the marine display, LOL. I put a chair next to my freshwater tank, and he will just bat at my freshwater angel for hours. The angel enjoys it too, because it will swim right there next to the glass, when he usually gets scared to...

If the rock was cured when you bought it, by the time it gets to you, there should be a good enough amount of dye-off to cycle the tank if in a couple of days it does not start the cycle, I would then add some shrimp (1 isn't enough for a 125 gallon, is it?)

yes, your tank is still cycling. IMO, you should add most of the fish you are going to put in your tank before adding corals, not to risk creating a second cycle in your tank, if you are even going to have fish.

Shrimp, or no shrimp, a cycle is going to stink any way, so I would go with the shrimp. Being mean to fish by cycling with them is not humane, so please do not take that word of advice.

A plenum is a device used to hold substrate in the aquarium off of the floor of the aquarium 1.5 - 2 inches, but still allows water to diffuse into the stagnant water space below the plenum. It Allows for you to use a deep layer of substrate, and have aerobic, denitrifying bacteria throughout...