do polyps poop? lol

sir_dudeguy · 07/03/2006, 10:20 AM

do they? cuz i was just watchin my new button polyps and all of a sudden from the back of the colony (i didnt see which polyp did it) this whitish/grey goo-e stuff shot up lol...i'm hopin they just poop and it wasnt something bad? i checked the params and they were all fine, and the lights are fine, and so is flow right by them.

any thoughts?
mike

Travis L. Stevens · 07/03/2006, 11:08 AM

Yes, they can defecate. But this doesn't seem to happen often. Sometimes they will get aggitated and produce a mucous coating that eventually sloughs off into the water current. There is also a rare chance that you had males that were reproducing via broadcast spawning. If it was a quick spurt of a white cloud, I would suspect that it released sperm into the water. If not, I would look more toward the mucous coating coming off.

sir_dudeguy · 07/03/2006, 01:15 PM

wow lol. i didnt knw they could reproduce like that..i figured it would just be like other polyps where they just spread.
and ya it was more of a spurt.
any signs i should look for now? will the new polyps be right next to these ones, or could they end up on the other side?

Nano Chris · 07/03/2006, 10:46 PM

That had that on the discovery channel last night how they reproduce.

sir_dudeguy · 07/03/2006, 11:08 PM

dang really? so do you thin they're tryin to reproduce then? if so, would i find new polyps only on that rock, or all the way across the tank maybe?

07/03/2006, 10:20 AM	#1
sir_dudeguy Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Portland, OR Posts: 10,841	do polyps poop? lol do they? cuz i was just watchin my new button polyps and all of a sudden from the back of the colony (i didnt see which polyp did it) this whitish/grey goo-e stuff shot up lol...i'm hopin they just poop and it wasnt something bad? i checked the params and they were all fine, and the lights are fine, and so is flow right by them. any thoughts? mike

07/03/2006, 11:08 AM	#2
Travis L. Stevens Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Perry, OK Posts: 13,946	Yes, they can defecate. But this doesn't seem to happen often. Sometimes they will get aggitated and produce a mucous coating that eventually sloughs off into the water current. There is also a rare chance that you had males that were reproducing via broadcast spawning. If it was a quick spurt of a white cloud, I would suspect that it released sperm into the water. If not, I would look more toward the mucous coating coming off. __________________ Travis Stevens Current Tank Info: Restarting 28g Bowfront

07/03/2006, 01:15 PM	#3
sir_dudeguy Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Portland, OR Posts: 10,841	wow lol. i didnt knw they could reproduce like that..i figured it would just be like other polyps where they just spread. and ya it was more of a spurt. any signs i should look for now? will the new polyps be right next to these ones, or could they end up on the other side? __________________ TAKE...LUCK!!!

07/03/2006, 10:46 PM	#4
Nano Chris Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Baltimore, MD Posts: 2,758	That had that on the discovery channel last night how they reproduce. __________________ Chris ------- 34 Gallon Red Sea Max 130! Setup (Just got back into the hobby) Current Tank Info: 34 Gallon RedSeaMax!

07/03/2006, 11:08 PM	#5
sir_dudeguy Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Portland, OR Posts: 10,841	dang really? so do you thin they're tryin to reproduce then? if so, would i find new polyps only on that rock, or all the way across the tank maybe? __________________ TAKE...LUCK!!!