Octobubble Excrement

[RxBandit]

Hey everyone,

before I go and bug the guys at WetWeb i thought I'd try to sound you all out and find out whats going on with my octobubble. For the last couple days its been basically excreting that stringy brown mucus that I usually associate with having eaten well. The problem is that I'm not feeding it and its never seeming to extend its polyps. Water quality is about as good as I can get it and there has been no change in lighting as of late. I did have to move it around a couple of times, but I've never seen him/her react this way before. On a side note he is closer to my Frogspawn than he used to be and there is an aptasia attached to his skeleton that is going to be getting juiced soon. Any help would be appreciated. The only other thing I can think of is that its getting a huge amount of nutrition from the invertebrates. My tank is virtually teeming with bugs (on account of my not having any fish in there). Have any of y'all had this issue before?

 

[alexchern75]

just the name makes me nervous, is an octobubble related to Optimus Prime?
Transformers, more than meets the eye!

Seriously, wit a tank teemimg with bugs...are you sure its not eating a bunch of those? or could it be expelling zoanthelle? (spell?)
is it resedind or showing any signs of stress?

 

[RxBandit]

As a member of the Decepticons of America I would never have an Autobot in my tank.

No it is still the same green color and this morning its expanded as big as normal...I have no dang clue whats going on, but Im pretty sure tonight it will be doing the same thing. And when I say teeming with bugs I mean theyre everywhere. So it's possible he's just eating a huge amount, but it doesn't appear to be growing all that much.

 

[Justin74]

If you see a loss in color then you know he's releasing his zooxanthella,which could be a sign of too much or too little light. Otherwise sounds kinda like hes just piggin out and pooping alot right nowGood luck, and dont make me tell Optimus Prime on you

-Justin

 

[alexchern75]

haha! do you have any other LPS' in the tank, and if you do, how are they doing? have you checked your parameters? and since it seems to be going around, hows your PH?