What is this in my acan?

[Johnett]

As the title says can you tell me what it is if you touch it it will go back in
oh and the white is food I was feeding the acan

[crvz]

I won't tell you what I think it looks like, but I will say it seems to be simply the mouth of the polyp. It's rare that I request a less detailed picture, but could you get one that's zoomed out a bit?

[Johnett]

LOL I know it does look like that here is a wider view and if you look to the top right there is another one you can see from the side

[crvz]

Huh, I can't say I've seen something like that before. How long has it been there?

[Johnett]

It has been there since I bought it about 2-3 months ago. I can't find anything like it either. When you look at it it has like metallic gold in it like a clam just couldn't get it to show up in the pic

[Loverotties]

Looks like a baby clam to me too!

[AquaMan91]

Is said Polyp a female?

[benny z]

some type of filter feeder...

[Johnett]

well it has me baffled

[tlgreve]

I'm thinking some kind of bivalve

[Irishrose302]

Originally Posted by tlgreve

I'm thinking some kind of bivalve

I would agree, some kind of bivalve.... but what kind?

I would post it on reef central and see what they say. I would keep watch and see how growth progresses, if you start to see the acan itself start tissue recession or die off then I would attempt to frag it to remove the "thing".

If nothing happens and it looks like a cohesive relationship without damage, leave it.

[garry]

i thank it is a bivalve. i had one the was in a rock with a sun coral, and it was all black on the lips it put out . and stop thanking dirty about the lips and puting out .

[Johnett]

Garry funny thing now that you mentioned it I totally forgot about it I have one in my orange sun coral to. Is this bivalve a common hitchhiker on LPS?

[crvz]

Originally Posted by Johnett

Garry funny thing now that you mentioned it I totally forgot about it I have one in my orange sun coral to. Is this bivalve a common hitchhiker on LPS?

I'd say it's uncommon, but not incredible.

[garry]

i dont know if they are or not ,it died and then the sun coral died soon after.we had it for ayearbefor we even found it in the coral.wise i still had that one.