Weird one Mr Grinch!!

[Dodger]

What is this? Good or bad? On the side of my new hammer coral. Thanks!!

 

[Timfish]

Is it hard, stiff like leather or really soft? First picture kinda looks like a clam but the second looks like a tunicate, which would feel kinda leathery. If it's really soft it's prbably a sponge.

 

[Carabeo]

Is it like a little hitchhiker anemone? Like a jewel or strawberry anemone that is closed?

 

[Dodger]

Is it hard, stiff like leather or really soft? First picture kinda looks like a clam but the second looks like a tunicate, which would feel kinda leathery. If it's really soft it's prbably a sponge.

Thanks! Iam wondering g if I have both going on

 

[ISpeakForTheSeas]

Thanks! Iam wondering g if I have both going on

I'm inclined to think you may have both - the first pic looks like a bivalve of some kind (the dark spot) with sponges or tunicates growing off of it (the translucent and white little spouts sticking off of the bivalve shell), and the orangish, fleshy mass looks like a solitary tunicate species to me.

 

[A Young Reefer]

Looks like a bivalve to me. I usually follow this;
“when in doubt take it out” -someone

 

[Timfish]

Thanks! Iam wondering g if I have both going on

It's possible, I've seen both together on rocks before.

 

[Dodger]

After some looking. I am wondering of the shelled animal is an abalone?

I'm inclined to think you may have both - the first pic looks like a bivalve of some kind (the dark spot) with sponges or tunicates growing off of it (the translucent and white little spouts sticking off of the bivalve shell), and the orangish, fleshy mass looks like a solitary tunicate species to me.

I think you are right. Thinking the shell animal is an abalone? The orange is a tunicate. Sea squirt. Finally ... interesting hitchhikers.

 

[ISpeakForTheSeas]

After some looking. I am wondering of the shelled animal is an abalone?

I think you are right. Thinking the shell animal is an abalone? The orange is a tunicate. Sea squirt. Finally ... interesting hitchhikers.

Abalones are sea snails that would move around, so I'd guess it's probably a mussel or oyster of some kind.