LPS Pooping?

[Cod Fish]

My rainbow open brain ( I don't know the real name) was not puffed up like usual when I got home today and it was letting out all this brown/black slime from it's valves. Is this normal? Is it excreting waste? I cleaned the glass with the mag float and when ran it past it, it let out a bunch more. Anyone?

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Missed a shot of the slime.

 

[RokleM]

More than likely. It could be stressed related (zooxanthellae), but the color on that one looks pretty decent so it probably wasn't that.

 

[Phsycodelic81]

a lot of my lps dose that almost every time I clean my glass

 

[LPSGurl]

What goes in must come out! It was probably poopin' :thumbsup:


Christina

 

[elegance coral]

How long have you had it? It is discharging zooxanthellae. This is common with newly introduced corals as they acclimate to the brighter lights of our tanks. If this is a well established coral in your tank, you may want to try reducing nutrient levels.

 

[bobbychullo]

i dont know if there is a difference between what expelling zooxanthellae and excreting waste looks like but my LPS that have the ability to eat large meaty foods excrete waste all the time a day or so after i feed them. they will expel most of the water in their bodies and pull tight to the skeleton to push the waste out of their guts. it should re-inflate and return to normal in an hour or so, if it doesn't then something else may be going on.

I am curious what it looks like when it expels zooxanthellae?

 

[R33f3r]

I am curious what it looks like when it expels zooxanthellae?

In lps, it usually looks like stringy dark brown poo. Very dark and stringy. Poo usually looks different. More lighter.

 

[elegance coral]

If it is brown, it is zooxanthellae. Corals and anemones don't have blood cells, or bile from a liver to turn their poo brown. When/if they poo, they simply discharge the parts of a meal that were not digested. Like bones or scales. The only way they will poo something brown, is if you feed them something brown, and they can't digest it all.

 

[Didac]

nice!! i had like that..

 

[bobbychullo]

i've had my torch expel a dark stringy material in the past, i guess thats zooxanthellae. i am hoping and assuming the caramel like (lol!) stuff my palys expel the morning after a feeding is not the same thing, it definitely looks different. i never thought about the difference before and maybe i should have lol. its a lighter brown, almost reddish (maybe the shells of the rotifiers in my coral food mix? its almost the same color as the rotis).

i assume because i've had a lot of the palys for 6-9 months and they are all healthy, growing and have full color. all my other LPS and SPS are healthy.

is my assumption right?

 

[RokleM]

Dark substance can be either zooxanthellae or waste. It's hard to tell, with the only other signs of coral stress being a key indicator (massive inflation/deflation, recession, loss of color, etc).

LPS can "handle their business" just like anemone's and other creatures that expel waste in a near identical fashion.

 

[nolanrob123]

What goes in must come out! It was probably poopin' :thumbsup:


Christina

Lol. On a serious note, mine do the same thing but only once ever couple of weeks. At least that I notice. Any reason it doesn't happen regularly?

 

[NanoReefWanabe]

Lol. On a serious note, mine do the same thing but only once ever couple of weeks. At least that I notice. Any reason it doesn't happen regularly?

not enough fibre?

LOL