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Jaidynn 05-10-2010 06:17 PM

Anyone have any idea on what my zoo's are doing ???
 
We did a water change today and my purple/pink zoo's now have these wierd brown strings coming from their mouths - just wondering what they are doing? i've never seen this occur in any of the other colonies i have in my tank. :wink:
I've posted a picture of what they looked like prior and one after the water change, thank you so much for any information!

soapy 05-10-2010 06:29 PM

Expelling zooxanthellae maybe?

ponokareefer 05-10-2010 06:38 PM

Pooping. Mine do it once in a while after I feed them.

Jaidynn 05-10-2010 06:55 PM

ew lol thank you!!! i've never seen them do that before, good to know! :mrgreen:

soapy 05-10-2010 08:30 PM

I was going to say pooping but I thought I would throw in a little drama just for fun.

Zoaelite 05-10-2010 08:35 PM

That's pretty hard core for just "pooping", a minor expulsion of digested zooxanthellae will happen every so often but most zoas actually don't capture pray so defecation isn't required.

I would run an ALK test, I have had my pink panther palys do something very similar to me when I had a ALK spike. Are they open and happy for you right now?

Jaidynn 05-20-2010 05:26 PM

they are open and happy, my ALK is 3.5meq/l they did expell again the same way just yesterday as i was doing a water change.


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