Floating zoanthids!?

[Roger30]

Yesterday, I found a polyp from my first zoanthid colony floating around my tank? Opened! Is this common? I glued it down to a small piece of rock and it's still open! The orginal colony looks good, all polyps are open. Should I worry?

 

[A. Grandis]

I've never heard about that! Not floating (at the surface, I assume)!
If you glued and it looks fine I don't think you should worry.

Grandis.

 

[aguila88psi]

Yep, happens every once and a while but more common with large colonies. Nothing to worry about, consider the coral fragged just stick on a rock or plug, grow it out some more and trade for some more corals.

 

[A. Grandis]

They normally "get released" from the colony and go around the tank to set on the bottom somewhere, not at the surface. Yes, that's normal. I think it's a type of reproduction strategy.
There is also what I think is a disease that takes place doing that normally to the whole colony. That happens most of the time with PEs, very sad!! But when only a polyp or two happens, they are from large colonies.

Grandis.

 

[Roger30]

Guess that make sense. It's not a big colony but their is no more room on that rockwnd the top one is the polyp that came lose! Thanks

 

[aguila88psi]

Lol, that's funny

 

[Trainwreck618]

Had this happen to me last week, then I realized one of my new frag plugs had nothing on it... Unfortunately in my attempt to catch the polyp it blew into a giant pukani boulder.. Fail!