What is this?

[scubalifer]

I took this picture at 25 ft in a lake. It is quite firm yet slippery. They are always attached to a rock like this or a limb.

I am going to post this and see if the attachment shows up. I am having a problem uploading it.

 

[scubajoe]

No attachment....yet.

Joe

 

[Meng_Tze]

Let me guess. A giant mutant leech. It grew so large becuase of the toxic waste dumped by that factory 2 miles upstream.

 

[scubalifer]

see if this works

that is the proper orientation. It is attached to that rock. 25 or so feet deep. actual size about one foot in diameter. The resistance of a rubber ball covered in a layer of mucous.

 

[scubalifer]

Ok what is it? I think it was worth the work.

 

[Meng_Tze]

Looks like coral to me... does it move?

 

[scubalifer]

No. But its not soft like fish eggs or frog eggs. It has structure. I have never heard of fresh water coral but it looks like something like that.

 

[ninja]

Where was the shot taken? It could be a fresh water sponge I have seen them crop up around the great lakes in recent years.

 

[torrey]

I've seen those attached to the underwater beams of piers in Cedar Creek Lake in Texas. I always wondered what they were myself.

 

[MSUnderwater Divers]

Carp Eggs... We get them on everything in the waters of the lake in a local subdivision. And god do they stink above water and it doesn't come off without a good scrubbing.