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    Posted: January 23 2020 at 9:53pm
I have these couple things growing on a live rock and want to make sure what they are. 
 Orange looking sponge? 


Spider web looking thing? 
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im no pro but the white spider web looking thing looks like a sponge.  Filter feeder. Harmless! The orange one i cant see it to well, so not to sure
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I second mrfixer. Not sure on first pic but second looks like a sponge. Sponges grow pretty slowly so if all the orange in the first pic grew rapidly I would say not a sponge but some kind of algae or diatom bloom, but it is a bit hard to see in the picture.
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I agree that the white spider web looking stuff is a sponge.  The red stuff looks like cyano, but it also could be coralline algae.  The brown looks like the brown algae associated with a tank that is cycling.

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water parameters would help. 
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