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Any help would be greatly appreciated! What are these critters?

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Agreed - colonial tunicates:
Haha, yeah sorry - that's part of why I threw in the TLDR at the bottom there. Here are some photos of colonial tunicates with similar body structure (and some with - from what I can tell - similar coloration) to help decide if it is a colonial tunicate:
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(The two above images are from here: https://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/14/11/977 )

And the link below has a bunch more pics (some are different colonial tunicates like above, some are solitary tunicates):
That’s a colonial tunicate species - harmless filter feeders, but some species can be pretty invasive, so I’d try to keep it isolated.
 

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