What is this?

[bues0022]

This has started developing over the past few months. Not exactly sure if it’s normal, good, or a nasty. Coral is a favia, and I’m talking about the white fleshy thing inbetween the polyps. It is more pronounced when I feed, goes back to almost nothing during the day. During feeding, it almost looks like the “guts” of a mushroom coral. 

 

Is this his part of the favia? Is it a hitchhiker that has finally grown up a bit? 

[YHSublime]

No photo

[bues0022]

Am I the only one that has a ridiculously hard time getting a pic from my phone to a post? Argh!!!! 

 

[YHSublime]

I use Tapatalk from my phone, easiest solution. 

 

From desktop, I host on flickr. 

 

Photobucket used to be everyone's huckleberry until they jumped the shark and ransomed everybody's memories. 

 

From what I can see on your picture, is it part of the skeleton? 

[bues0022]

Nope. It’s definitely soft. I poked at it with a tweezers. Felt soft like guts. 

[lynn.reef.nerd]

Do they look like this? Sponge?

[bues0022]

Nope. Definitely not a sponge. It really looks like mesenterial filaments, but they aren’t coming from a mouth of this coral. Can these filaments come from in-between? Some kind of sex organ? 

[bues0022]

Hmm. Maybe they are mesenterial filaments:

 

https://www.nano-reef.com/forums/topic/296533-white-curly-stuff-on-acan/

 

one guy seems to think its a it’s a sign of warfare, but idk. Mine has had them for a while in several different placements (some very far from other corals), and they expand more during feeding. 

Edited June 26, 2019 by bues0022

[lynn.reef.nerd]

Like this? My lobo does that when there are nearby corals. It kills it every time.

[bues0022]

Yeah, looks like that, but it’s SUPER small on mine. Largest I’ve seen is 1/3 the size of a pea. Closest coral are some zoas about 3” away. There really isn’t much near this coral. 

[YHSublime]

39 minutes ago, bues0022 said:

Hmm. Maybe they are mesenterial filaments:

 

https://www.nano-reef.com/forums/topic/296533-white-curly-stuff-on-acan/

 

one guy seems to think its a it’s a sign of warfare, but idk. Mine has had them for a while in several different placements (some very far from other corals), and they expand more during feeding. 

 

Favias are extremely aggressive, could be right!

[DFR]

I can’t really see the object well, but as it’s more on the ridge between the two corallites, I’d say it’s probably a barnacle or a sponge.  Does it sort of look like a “fan” that pulses in and out of an opening periodically?  This is usually more frequent during feeding. (Google images of barnacle feeding)