Releasing polyps on its own?

[pantala]

Woke up this morning to find that a relatively new polyp from one of my zoanthid colonies had released itself and was drifting along the sand bed. Is this normal? This particular polyp never had problems opening while it was connected to the colony, so I don't think it was a space issue.

I have mounted it to a piece of LR rubble and it seems to be doing fine.

I should also note that the xenia released one of its "hands" also.

There was a water change yesterday, and all of the parameters test fine today.

 

[Scythanith]

Sounds like something snipped them off or they were bite off but not eaten.

 

[lfduty]

Its normal I have them all over my tank and not a thing sniping them off it is normal its haw they move. just lett it drift it will sett up shop in time or put it on piece of LR rubble.

 

[650-IS350]

mine does as well.. if the colony gets too tight..some polyps do release on their own.. I have some pieces growing on 1 corner where as the original colony is all the way on the other side.

 

[kingfisher62]

I had a small crash a while back and I noticed that some of my zoas, paly's ,yellow polyps and mushrooms just let loose . I think it is some sort of survival mode when conditions are not right and as a last resort they try to drift off with the current to a better spot.
(Little do they know ,they are stuck in a tiny glass cube)

 

[aquarius77]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10827607#post10827607 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by kingfisher62

(Little do they know ,they are stuck in a tiny glass cube)

That is a harsh way of putting it, makes me want to dump my tanks into the ocean... Thank god im landlocked.

 

[LockeOak]

Yeah, they do this from time to time. I have little patches of xenia everywhere. I had some "watermelon" zoanthids in my tank for a month or two and then broke down the tank for a move. A couple of weeks ago I found a single polyp of the zoanthid on the back of some live rock, doing fine. It survived for a week in a dark aerated bucket, as did xenia, other zoanthids and even some anacropora that I didn't have time to remove from a rock. Actually nothing that I know of died.