I have no idea

[Rick Murchison]

is that ID enough?

No ma'am...
We want genus & species & a short monograph of course.
Looks to me like those two pictures are of the same critter Leesa.
Rick

 

[justleesa]

I'll have to go down for some DNA then....lol

 

[LGF]

I don't have an exact name but it is a type of Hawaiian soft coral, only found here (from what I have been told)....is that ID enough?

Thanks Leesa! I didn't know that there were soft coral in Hawaii.

 

[justleesa]

hee hee...I might have to take that back. I asked my expert friend and he says it might be some kind of algee....go figure. You hear something differnt from who ever you ask

We do have a few soft corals, small ones, but not many.

 

[MarkH]

I'm with the nudibranch egg mass theory.