Is this a coral on my astrea?

[slocal]

One of our astrea snails has a neat-o hitchhiker on him. Anyone care to figure it out? I'm guessing it's a coral and not a dead one at that. The "polyps" were open, but as I tried to turn him for the second shot, I accidentally touched them and they closed up. Any help would be much appreciated! ;D

Open:

Closed:

 

[stonedfish]

Maybe a Goniopora.

 

[DontXtripNfall]

IMO it is an SPS, some kind of montipora.

 

[slocal]

Maybe a Goniopora.

I would have to say that it does look very similar. The color of it is a light brown with brownish-orange circles.

Thank you very much for your response

 

[slocal]

Here's a pic with better coloring, but the polyps are closed at the moment

 

[aaromano]

Ditto on encrusting monti

 

[jjohnson3]

Maybe some form of brain?

 

[slocal]

thanks for all the responses so far everyone. i can see the resemblance in some types of montis

 

[yungreefer2410]

i would say sps for sure maybe an encrusting monti

 

[slocal]

Thanks for all the responses. I'm going to just try and nurture this thing as best as I can.

Best pic of it open so far:

 

[mettjl03]

nice picture.... :bigbounce

 

[bskinn77]

wow VERY cool!!!

 

[reefer4200]

now that is one snail you dont wanna find on its back! ha very cool, keep your eye on em!!

 

[slocal]

now that is one snail you dont wanna find on its back! ha very cool, keep your eye on em!!

no kidding! we have a bi-hourly check on him to make sure the snail's not in any weird spots. we're lucky so far since the snail seems to stick to the top of the rocks and so far hasn't gone out of site.

thanks for all the compliments eveyone

 

[raisemyrent]

omg, snails are absolutely hilarious...