new coral and a oyster/muscle???

i brought a new coral a week ago, and tonight saw the rock split (so i thought) i thought it was breaking but it opened up and now i can see an oyster thing he seems ok apart from being covered in mushrooms,

question one what is he

question 2 is how can i get the mushrooms off without damage to them or him?

 

hi. i personally would take a very sharp blade and try cutting below the mushroom "foot". i am only suggesting this way as i had a single puple mushroom growing right next to my anemone, so i actually used a paper blade and cut some of the live rock from out below the mushroom.. i shouldn"t worry too much about harming the mushroom either as i googled the aqua culture of mushrooms earlier in the week and they seem pretty hardy little things!!!!!!try it!!

 

The encrustations probably won't hurt it and chances are are it won't be very spectacular-looking after you clean it. It's an oyster of one type or another, but hard to tell which genus. Compare your animal to the animals in these pics:

Poppe Images - Marine Iconography in the Philippines

Poppe Images - Marine Iconography in the Philippines

Cheers,



Don

 

ah, ide leave it on there after seeing the above pictures.