Anyone have any idea on what my zoo's are doing ???

Jaidynn · #1 05-10-2010, 06:17 PM

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.

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 · #2 05-10-2010, 06:29 PM

Expelling zooxanthellae maybe?

ponokareefer · #3 05-10-2010, 06:38 PM

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

Jaidynn · #4 05-10-2010, 06:55 PM

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

soapy · #5 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 · #6 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 · #7 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.