sun coral spitting out stuff

[mollymonticello]

One of my sun coral's polyps is huge, and it's spitting out little tiny brown threads. Is it just expelling waste? I wasn't sure if they did that. Some of the polyps have their mouths wide open and are spitting out half-chewed mysis.

Should I be worried about this?

 

[sufunk]

I'd say dont worry yet. The brown is almost definitely it expelling waste.

As far as the mysis, i've had mine spit out hunks of meat after i guess overfeeding and never saw any ill effects from it.

 

[mikekman]

Brown stuff is probably poop and if your sun corals are spitting pieces of food out, you may be overfeeding it.

I didn't think there was any bad effects to overfeeding but I was brought to attention in another thread that photosynthetic corals like sun corals, etc waste a lot of energy digesting and that overfeeding it may be bad to the health of the coral.

 

[elegance coral]

I didn't think sun corals were photosynthetic.

 

[paininthewrasse]

they are non-photosynthetic.. I'm sure thats what mikekman meant.

 

[elegance coral]

After reading it again I think your right. It must just be a typo.

 

[mollymonticello]

Yeah, it's fine now. It's actually great, now. Producing babies and expanding fully. It was nothing to worry about.

I assumed he meant non-photo, too.