Hey look at this weird thing!

[blue_eyes53813]

Ok i mentioned this a few months back but could nevet get a good picture.. It was shoved in a hole in the rock and you could only see one rim of this Shell/Thing. I dont know if it came out of the rock on its own or if a hermit or something moved it... What do you think It is?

 

[Snelly40]

wow, no idea. but im tagging along

 

[kyle1284]

ehhhh maybe a shroom or a clam? better pic?

 

[blue_eyes53813]

Oh that was a horrible picture, let me try it again...

 

[kyle1284]

wow much better pic... im taking a stab at a clam? it has that kinda pattern to me.....

 

[Snelly40]

yah i was thining some kind of clam

 

[blue_eyes53813]

I dont think it has an actual opening.. It seems to be solid.. I dont see a crack in it like it can open..? Maybe it can,, But it is closed very tightly

 

[Dentoid]

It looks like a rock boring bivalve of some type. It has radiating and concentric rings on the shell-maybe it's a mantis shrimp egg sac!

 

[blue_eyes53813]

bivalve ok mantis shrimp sac not ok :bugout: lol

 

[Dentoid]

:LOL: I'm tagging along I don't have the foggiest idea what it is! However, rock boring bivalve is a good guess.

 

[lcstorc]

Wow how interresting. Looking forward to the id. I hope it is a good guy. You have had anough problems lately to last you for qaa while.

 

[Dentoid]

It reminds me of the old Saturday Night Live skit with Dan Akroyd and Steve Martin standing around saying, "...what the hell is it?"

 

[reefjitsu]

I would agree that it does look like some sort of rock boring bivalve. It also looks kind of like the "shell" of a dead stomatella snail. I would gently prod it with your favorite reefsafe poking instrument, to see if it is firmly attatched to the rock. If it is a clam or something of the sort, you should be able to get it to pull into its hole, squish down closer to the rock, or otherwise move somehow.

 

[swissgaurd]

i think its a clam
has it grown any

vic

 

[burning2nd]

bivalve or something along that line is my vote,

it looks like thos things that burrow in the sand on the beach of NC

 

[aquaman3680]

It looks to me like a shell of an abalone snail. I know i spelt it wrong but, can you pick it up? if so turn it over...if it is shiny on the bottom then it is an abalone snail.

Matt

 

[ds69]

I also agree that it looks like an abalone snail to me. Have you seen it move?

Kevin

 

[Tokey]

Alien Spacecraft

 

[blue_eyes53813]

Hey all, I will inspect it somemore when the light come on... I believe it is a solid shell.. like a clam.. it would move inside the hole like , it would be situated different in the hole over a period of a couple days.. But it sure didnt move much..

 

[JaxReef]

abalone?

http://idelleweber.com/images/Abalone.jpg