Lettuce or Lace?

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icechip

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Saw this pale 'tissue-like' flora on my dive today in Maine waters. At first thought they were Sea Lace but now thinking they might be Sea Lettuce? Although I thought Sea Lettuce was always much greener than this.
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That's pretty cool-looking coral, but I'm referring to the Bryozoan known as Sea Lace. Except what I saw today did not have the fibers like in this photo of Sea Lace. That's why I'm thinking what I saw most likely might just have been a wicked pale version of Sea Lettuce.
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That's pretty cool-looking coral, but I'm referring to the Bryozoan known as Sea Lace. Except what I saw today did not have the fibers like in this photo of Sea Lace. That's why I'm thinking what I saw most likely might just have been a wicked pale version of Sea Lettuce.
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I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure your photo is the same thing, just a different species.

Lace Coral

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When sea lettuce dies or sporulates, it can turn white. Did it look like a white sea lettuce?
 
Yes it did. So this stuff was dying/dead? That's interesting, there was a lot of it.
 

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