Not sure why it happens.  I try to clean detritus out of colonies with a turkey baster but sometimes I forget for a while.  Perhaps the build up leads to fungus of some sort.  I notice the Furan dip gets a lot of crap off the polyps.  It kinda floats off 
		
	
		
		
		
		
			
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