ID and a Question

[Garth Schafluetzel]

ok this is the best pic i have of him. my question he recently fell over a little bit and it went unoticed and i looked today and the piece under the rock but not toching is still open an alive but the piece thats touched as the little worm like tenticles hundres posibly thousand almost looks like a tiny spider web when i gently applied pressure to the coral i found that all of them were infact attached to the rock so fear of dameging the coral i left it alone and today the area that was attached has increased and no damge to report on the coral. watchs going on it this an encrusting coral? and i was told the it is aggresive but the only way hey can kil another coral is if he falls agenst it or grows into it i just have no idea

 

[oceanparadise1]

just frag it off where its connected it wont do the coral any harm

 

[Garth Schafluetzel]

well if its trying to encrust the rock its agest honestly it ataching sideways almost and i think if it ecrusts the rock when it starts ill remove the zoas because it would look amazing it it did lol it would look kinda lick a rhino horn. turn the pic sideways and image i round rock the size of yourfist being eacruted with this sticking off the side

 

[Garth Schafluetzel]

and what is it ?

 

[Garth Schafluetzel]

i know im horrible at pics and realy bad camra a long while back

 

[Smarsh]

it looks like an encrusting hydnophora. I can't help with the other question.

Sandy

 

[Garth Schafluetzel]

now that you say that that has to be it i remeber the guy saying it was a hydrophora its just been so long lol you lose track