Toadstool help - is this a good sign or a bad sign

[The Life Aquatic]

Hey all - was checking on a few corals with lights down and noticed my toadstool is either:

1) attaching itself to the rock via some kind of extension
2) being attacked from something on the rock

I didn’t want to dislodge it in case it’s “good” and attaching itself somehow but then again I’ve never seen a leather do this, but admittedly have little leather experience.

Apologies for the bad pics. Combo of lights out, dirty glass, dirty water (just caused a minor sand dust up right before)

 

[The Life Aquatic]

Update: I just unintetionally dislodged it. Used a turkey baster to give it some puffs thinking if it was a pest it would retreat. After a few hard puffs it detached but it is indeed part of the mushroom.

Looks like a polyp got "stuck"...it's a weeping willow (allegedly) so the polyps are pretty long. Can they get stuck or is this something the leather was doing intentionally to spread?

 

[fishguy242]

hi,yes most likely a molt skin...

 

[vetteguy53081]

Hey all - was checking on a few corals with lights down and noticed my toadstool is either:

1) attaching itself to the rock via some kind of extension
2) being attacked from something on the rock

I didn’t want to dislodge it in case it’s “good” and attaching itself somehow but then again I’ve never seen a leather do this, but admittedly have little leather experience.

Apologies for the bad pics. Combo of lights out, dirty glass, dirty water (just caused a minor sand dust up right before)

This looks skinned over due to lack of water flow. You want moderate light and medium water flow and assure nitrates not elevated. A few blasts direct to the head will or should perk it up
Here is one of mine:

 

[The Life Aquatic]

This looks skinned over due to lack of water flow. You want moderate light and medium water flow and assure nitrates not elevated. A few blasts direct to the head will or should perk it up
Here is one of mine:

Thanks…it usually looks fine, the stuck polyp must have irritated it and this was also an hour into lights off. Will take a pic of it with the lights tomorrow but I think all is well.

 

[The Life Aquatic]

As promised