GroYurOwn
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i know its because they are stressed, the weird thing is they have been doing perfectly fine for about five months. yesterday i received a colony of gold shrooms, and a colony of moon polyps from reefermadness. i drip acclimated them, placed them in the tank, i did not put any bag water into my tank, but shortly after placing them in the tank my green bullseyes all ejected their filaments (i think thats what the intestine things are called), and a single hairy mushroom that i had a half tank length away did too. they remained that way all day yesterday, and still have a little sticking out this morning.
so my guess, since no water params changed, is that maybe the moon polyps are releasing palytoxins into the water? i moved them several times to place them. did a gallon (10%) water change. weird thing is the cleaner shrimp, the brittle star, the maxima, and the rock anemone are all showing zero signs of stress...so i am thinking about going and picking up a hob filter to run carbon through, was going to do it anyway, just not yet. anybody think the palytoxin theory could be right, or any other ideas? this colony has been doing great and i would hate to lose it. thanks.
so my guess, since no water params changed, is that maybe the moon polyps are releasing palytoxins into the water? i moved them several times to place them. did a gallon (10%) water change. weird thing is the cleaner shrimp, the brittle star, the maxima, and the rock anemone are all showing zero signs of stress...so i am thinking about going and picking up a hob filter to run carbon through, was going to do it anyway, just not yet. anybody think the palytoxin theory could be right, or any other ideas? this colony has been doing great and i would hate to lose it. thanks.