Anyone ever seen anything like this before (sps death)?

[MitchM]

Here's a term for you:


Extracoelenteric Digestion:

Corals expel digestive filaments which contain cnidocytes (digestive fluids).

Cnidocytes can be expelled from the digestive track en masse (puking) onto a nearby coral, digesting it.

Sounds lovely....

Mitch

[christyf5]

Originally Posted by MitchM

Here's a term for you:


Extracoelenteric Digestion:

Corals expel digestive filaments which contain cnidocytes (digestive fluids).

Cnidocytes can be expelled from the digestive track en masse (puking) onto a nearby coral, digesting it.

Sounds lovely....

Mitch

Eew!!

I did notice yesterday at about 11 a completely different coral that was doing that white stringy thing quite excessively (it usually has some issues when I feed the fish mysis and I just figured it was excited about the extra nutrients in the water column) however at 11am I hadn't fed the fish. Everything else looked normal though. But on my return at 7, that green birdsnest was 1/4 white, 1/4 brown slurry and 1/2 normal. This morning at about 7am there were just the couple intact branches you see in the photo. The original coral that was doing the white stringy thing at 11 yesterday is completely fine and sans strings.