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yoyoyoo123
02/09/2004, 09:31 PM
I have this one polyp that has spit out a bunch of stringy brown stuff. I used a turkey baster to suck it out of it's center "mouth"
And then a few minutes later more came out. It's like a dark brown colored stringy stuff.

Is this normal?
yoyoyoo123
02/09/2004, 09:39 PM
It almost looks as if this was the zoo's "tongue" and it's sticking it far out to catch food.
yoyoyoo123
02/10/2004, 02:02 AM
ok now the polyp has been completely retracted for the last 2 hours. It has also shrunk. Is it dying?

another one of my polyps in a different colony is spitting out this brown stringy stuff too. Dammit!
RicksReefs
02/10/2004, 06:54 AM
sounds like they're shedding excess zooxanthellae algae.
are these zoo's new or have you recently switched lights?
AzSnake
02/10/2004, 11:15 AM
Originally posted by yoyoyoo123
ok now the polyp has been completely retracted for the last 2 hours. It has also shrunk. Is it dying?

another one of my polyps in a different colony is spitting out this brown stringy stuff too. Dammit!

My LPS's do this with their zooxanthellae and exibit the exact same behaviour. After they expell they look like their on their way out for a few hrs and then by the next light cycle they look great. Never seen any of my Zoa's do this but I see it with all of LPS's.
yoyoyoo123
02/10/2004, 01:07 PM
Interesting...

These Zoos have been in my tank for over 4 months. The reason there is only one isolated polyp is because I wanted to move the colony onto higher light, and I didn't know that one of the polyps had already spread to a new rock, so I had to rip it apart.

ricksreef: I love your sig, hahah
RicksReefs
02/10/2004, 04:45 PM
Thx :D
i've had new zoo's spit up their algae, but not
after they've been in my systems for any length of time.
you can prolly expect a color change, usually to the brown side (IME)
how old are your bulbs? maybe the spectrum has shifted.
mr_alberta
02/10/2004, 05:24 PM
Do you feed your zoas? Mine do this occasionally but I do try to target feed them several times a week. I'd like to think they are just expelling waste.
MarLooney
02/10/2004, 09:40 PM
i was thinking the same thing as mr_alberta... sounds like they're taking a dump to me.
RicksReefs
02/10/2004, 10:49 PM
i've tried target feeding my zoo's and i can't
say i've ever seen mine eat, my Protopalythoa sp.
zoo's chow, but not my Zoanthus sp. have you
actually seen them eat & what are you feeding?
s13silvia
02/12/2004, 01:06 AM
whoa thats strange because my pinks did this today... i was wondering *** was going on.. i do believe its poop but i'm not positive
MarLooney
02/12/2004, 03:15 AM
most zoos are very slow eaters. it depends on the zoos though.
mr_alberta
02/12/2004, 11:31 AM
Originally posted by ricksreef
i've tried target feeding my zoo's and i can't
say i've ever seen mine eat, my Protopalythoa sp.
zoo's chow, but not my Zoanthus sp. have you
actually seen them eat & what are you feeding?

Sorry for the late reply. I feed my zoas freeze dried cyclopeeze. Not all of my zoas eat however, just 2 colonies. I just soak the cyclopeeze in tank water and turkey baste a little bit of it in the general direction of the zoas.
zrograviti
02/27/2004, 05:55 PM
So, the brown stringy thing is waste?
danellis06460
02/27/2004, 05:59 PM
I would like to know that too, I have seen mine do this from time to time

Originally posted by zrograviti
So, the brown stringy thing is waste?
MarLooney
02/27/2004, 07:18 PM
pretty sure....
Obi-dad
02/27/2004, 07:26 PM
Is that photo really a of a zoanthid? I have never seen them with the long stalk like that. I don't think that is a zoanthid.
MarLooney
02/27/2004, 07:47 PM
they can have long "necks." here's a pic of some of mine with long "necks" ><
rehren
02/27/2004, 07:55 PM
wow, crazy photos
Obi-dad
02/27/2004, 10:21 PM
Ok. I thought those were different species (like palythoa or others), not zoanthids. Any experts out there to comment?
MarLooney
02/28/2004, 12:08 AM
they were hitchhikers on a yellow polyps rock in my friends tank. they weren't in a spot with good light and until we propagated them and saw them in my tank close up we thought they were palythoa too. reaching for light may be the cause.
zrograviti
02/28/2004, 01:40 AM
My pink zoa sometimes spit out brown stringy stuff.
atrain
03/06/2004, 01:15 AM
I've witnessed the same after feedings from various corals, I've always assumed it's waste.

aaron
IMustBreakYou
03/11/2004, 03:22 AM
"uh, can someone hand me some toilet paper, this stall is all out."

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yoyoyoo123
03/11/2004, 03:58 AM
hahah!