Acclimating right now...should I leave this alone?

[MsBeanCtr]

I'm acclimating a coral order as I type this and noticed this "thingy" on one of the corals. I've checked the hitchhiker faq and can't find anything that even looks close to it.

My question? Should I keep it or peel it off the coral? It's right above my thumb nail....

 

[melosu58]

I see it but can you tell me if it`s hard or soft?

 

[MsBeanCtr]

Has a hard shell and is stuck on the coral big time.....I tried to gently peel it off.

 

[Kurt_Nelson]

I'd yard it off if I was you. You should be able to get a fingernail under it and pop it off... by the looks of that thumbnail!

I've had some things like that (but not that big) show up on corals before and I always clean them off and acclimate them to my garden.

 

[Joker741]

I'd yard it off if I was you.

You log? My cousin and a good friend both log and they both use "yard".

 

[Kurt_Nelson]

You log? My cousin and a good friend both log and they both use "yard".

Not a logger, but I am from Washington state and we *used* to have a lot of logging around here. Think it must be one of those local terms! (Then again if MsBeanCtr didn't get the lingo, I suppose THAT theory goes out the window!)

 

[thincat]

Looks like a "cats eye" snail of a sort. My Dad brought some home with him from where he was during one of the battle of the Pacific in WWII. They make jewelry out of them.

 

[MsBeanCtr]

Ok.....I finally was able to peel it off and toss it......I killed it! waaahhhh!!

 

[Kurt_Nelson]

Hey... survival of the fittest. It obviously couldn't outsurvive those fingernails.

 

[raindrops]

And here is further evidence that species with opposing thumbs dominate.