RBTA expelling waste...

[falco]

I have had my RBTA for some where around 5-6 months. I have never had any issues at all with her. I just happen to be home today and I think I see her expelling waste. She is about 80% deflated and has a clearish tube shaped goo coming out of her. My question is how long do they normally take to expell their waste, she has been going at it now for over an hour. Everything in my tank is normal.
Temp-79, ph-8.2, undetectable phosphates, nitrates, nitrites, calcium 460, alk 9, lighting is 2x250 mh and 240 PC. I have 2 tunze 6000 for flow. She eats on average 3x week 1 siverside each feeding. Can someone just confirm that this is her expelling waste and that they can be doing it for more than an hour.
Thanks,
Jack

 

[skeeter-doc]

might have just been a bad silverside, and it is getting rid of it the hard way, ... I would not worry until later is it does not come back to looking normal, ...

 

[TOURKID]

mine takes over an hour most of the time. but the waste always brown and stringy. it may be a silverslide coming back out. when mine regugitates all the hermits stand right underneth waiting for it.

 

[falco]

I think you were right. She is about 100% inflated again now. It had that goo being expelled for about 3 hours. Her mouth is almost completely closed again. I threw the rest of the silversides in the garbage. The weird thing is that I was about half way done with the bag and this is the first time I have ever seen her do this.
Thanks,
Jack

 

[falco]

TOURKID-you did not see any silverside left from whatever it was expelling. It was a clear goo, it was one solid peice that took over 3hours to completely come out. I've never seen anything like it befoe.

 

[Ciarán]

My colonial rock anemones always do that, without exception, whereas my Ritteri rarely if ever expells long filamentous waste. Perfectly normal IMO. One thing to watch is if it spits it out in a large ball, then the food item it has tried to digest is too large for it and it will not have digested it properly, thus it will not have gleaned any nutrients. If its long, stringy and translucent, perfectly normal. Ive had my ritteri go for 12+ hours at expelling waste and no adverse effects.