What is it??? Location:anacortes Washington
Posted by sickobee@reddit | marinebiology | View on Reddit | 3 comments
Okay so another weird thing I can’t figure out what it is. I know i shouldn’t touch things but it felt very squishy like my whole finger could go in without hitting anything solid. There was other things also living on them. It was off the side of the dock and there were many of them.
love_rin_bell@reddit
An aggregation of slime tube worms! The soft part is their house, which they make from a slime they produce. The dark solid bits are the actual worms.
Entety303@reddit
They look exactly like palythoa lol. Got scared a paltyhoa species established itself there
clarissas_nerdy@reddit
Fun article by WA department of ecology; https://ecology.wa.gov/blog/october-2021/it-s-slime-time-the-slime-tube-worm-lives-in-a-hou