fishkeeprian
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There is one video and one pic the attachment are side by side.
Thanks Ian
zooxanthellae or poop??
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There is one video and one pic the attachment are side by side.
Thanks Ian
CoralsAddiction
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Looks like a classic BTA poop.
fishkeeprian
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I have thanks for your reply, I have done a bit of research on this and the info I gathered is the poop is generally white and this stringly brown material is zooxanthellae?
Fish Friend
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Depending on what the anemone is eating, waste can be brownish or reddish. I have only read about lighter, being a result of a diet made up of silversides.
They can turn to self-cannibalism if they need food and don't have it, so a change in the colour of waste should be considered in regards to it's general diet.
I forgot to aclimatice a LTA to an overpowered LED fixture, and it immediately let go of a whitish cloud, and it lost a little colour (it is recovering nicely), but that was through a few tentacles.
When they die, the brownish cloud they release before starting decomposition also comes out through the tentacles, so I think it is normal waste functions you see and nothing to worry about.
If they had any higher abilities, I would claim anemones try to make people worry on purpose.
They can turn to self-cannibalism if they need food and don't have it, so a change in the colour of waste should be considered in regards to it's general diet.
I forgot to aclimatice a LTA to an overpowered LED fixture, and it immediately let go of a whitish cloud, and it lost a little colour (it is recovering nicely), but that was through a few tentacles.
When they die, the brownish cloud they release before starting decomposition also comes out through the tentacles, so I think it is normal waste functions you see and nothing to worry about.
If they had any higher abilities, I would claim anemones try to make people worry on purpose.
Fish Friend
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Ah, sorry I forgot to mention: I could not play the video unfortunately, but you say it is stringy? It sounds like normal functions 
They make little strings of almost earth-colored poo, sometimes it can look like a big baby drooling.... Well, they are beautiful plant-animals anyways.
When they expel that brown cloud, it looks clearly like a cloud-string. It is much more hard to see than waste, like a brown stringy but gassy cloud coming from tentacle-tips.
If it is a more solid string, coming from the mouth, it should be the leftovers of its dinner
They make little strings of almost earth-colored poo, sometimes it can look like a big baby drooling.... Well, they are beautiful plant-animals anyways.When they expel that brown cloud, it looks clearly like a cloud-string. It is much more hard to see than waste, like a brown stringy but gassy cloud coming from tentacle-tips.
If it is a more solid string, coming from the mouth, it should be the leftovers of its dinner
