sun coral spitting out stuff

mollymonticello · #1 07/26/2007, 09:21 PM

One of my sun coral's polyps is huge, and it's spitting out little tiny brown threads. Is it just expelling waste? I wasn't sure if they did that. Some of the polyps have their mouths wide open and are spitting out half-chewed mysis.

Should I be worried about this?

sufunk · #2 07/26/2007, 09:24 PM

I'd say dont worry yet. The brown is almost definitely it expelling waste.

As far as the mysis, i've had mine spit out hunks of meat after i guess overfeeding and never saw any ill effects from it.

mikekman · #3 07/26/2007, 09:31 PM

Brown stuff is probably poop and if your sun corals are spitting pieces of food out, you may be overfeeding it.

I didn't think there was any bad effects to overfeeding but I was brought to attention in another thread that photosynthetic corals like sun corals, etc waste a lot of energy digesting and that overfeeding it may be bad to the health of the coral.

elegance coral · #4 07/27/2007, 02:05 PM

I didn't think sun corals were photosynthetic.

paininthewrasse · #5 07/27/2007, 06:46 PM

they are non-photosynthetic.. I'm sure thats what mikekman meant.

elegance coral · #6 07/27/2007, 07:09 PM

After reading it again I think your right. It must just be a typo.

mollymonticello · #7 08/11/2007, 11:12 PM

Yeah, it's fine now. It's actually great, now. Producing babies and expanding fully. It was nothing to worry about.

I assumed he meant non-photo, too.