What is on my Coral?

[adespain81]

What is on my coral, any ideas?

 

[MoshJosh]

Looks to be a leather of some kind that is somewhat retracted, either irritated or shedding (think they do that), with algae or cyano growing on the base. I would try to blow it off with a turkey baster/flow. My assumption is that the algae/cyano is not the irritant, rather is just opportunistically growing their while the coral is like that. . .

Could be totally wrong though

As far as the retraction goes, if your parameters are OK I would chalk it up to a soft coral being a soft coral (doing weird things sometimes) and keep an eye on it.

 

[adespain81]

By chance do you know the name of this coral?

 

[vetteguy53081]

What is on my coral, any ideas?

need clearer images as this could be sponge versus leather

 

[MoshJosh]

Possibly a small kenya tree:

But like Vetta said, a clearer picture could help with ID