do zoas take dumps?

[pufferpoison]

Ok I was looking at my zoa colony today and after feeding heavily with phytoplankton this last week, i noticed some blobby stuff on the mouth of one of them, and on the same colony another looked as if it "took a dump" and a brown ball came out of it's mouth and floated away. They seem fine and normal, just heard of them expelling zoanthelia (spelling?) and wanted to make sure mine were normal.

 

[MinibowMatt]

yup- normal.. are they stressed at all? sometimes that can do it..

 

[chrisstie]

I saw mine do that once and so i've layed off the phyto stuff.. since i have a fish that feeds on cyclopeeze i figure they can have some of that if it drifts at them.. They will do fine with good lighting..

Although seeing a little polyp shoot out some poo was highly entertaining. Almost as entertaining as when my cleaner shrimp decides to clean his butt!

 

[twon8]

they expel zooax., its normal

 

[ek9vboi]

That would explain why mine does the same! It does sit directly right under the lights at the buttom of the tank. In fact, it faces right up!

 

[ct_vol]

Zoathids like anemones only have one opening for both ingestion and excretion... Its normal for them to dispose of wastes through their mouth...

 

[camz28]

yes they do , mine did it last week and i thought something was wrong becas i never seen that here is a picture of it and it was alot

 

[ct_vol]

Dang... Now those are some Pooping Paly's... Purty though... lol Its kinda like seeing a pretty girl with a booger hanging out of her nose...

 

[OCDP]

ahahah... nice analogy.

 

[pufferpoison]

that's some montezomas revenge going on there, hope they did a curtousy flush.