Alive and ugly or dead. What do you think?

[Dj City]

I thought this acro was dead. I took an up close pic and I believe it's alive.
If it is, it is the ugliest acro I've ever seen.
What do you think?
Alive and ugly or dead?.

 

[Flippers4pups]

Post a picture with white light. Looks alive to me.

 

[Dj City]

I thought this acro was dead. I took an up close pic and I believe it's alive.
If it is, it is the ugliest acro I've ever seen.
What do you think?
Alive and ugly or dead?.

This post might be better than the quote...
W white light pic coming up

 

[brandon429]

I would rate that alive for sure nice one. I can't remember if those are called autozooids or not/extensions from polyps that may be leathers only. not sure of the sps nomenclature but could be live az's

 

[brandon429]

hey upon closer view that is strange, are those little fanworms coiled up along its sides?

wonder if that's briareum overtaking a former sps frag/white light needed. no blues

 

[Dj City]

I'm trying to get a better pic.

 

[jeffchapok]

It's hideous! Want me to dispose of it for you?

 

[Dj City]

Better?

 

[brandon429]

that is one neat frag for sure, it does look like an sps very unique physicality/looks happy and wanting to feed etc

call it ugly duckling acro

 

[eggplantparrot]

kind of look like pairs of tentacles, maybe infested with spionid worms?

 

[Timfish]

I'm going to side with eggplantparrot. It looks to me like an infestation of some kind that's irritating the acro polyps making the tenticles look like whitish blobs.

 

[Dj City]

I know it started as a random brown acro. It's been in my display for about 7 months.
I have no idea what it is now.

Living acro or dead acro overgrown with whatever it may be.

I would really like to know though.

 

[Dj City]

I don't know about worms. It would seem to be an awful lot of them on only one small acro and nowhere else.
Also, I see no tubes.

What is this in my reef?