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BillyC 
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 Topic: Do palys poop?
Posted: October 26 2011 at 1:31pm |
One of my paly frags started releasing a stringy brown thing from their mouths. All three polyps were doing the same thing. Took about 15 mins for them to each release a 1/2cm stringy "poop-like" thing.
Anyone ever seen this before?
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Posted: October 26 2011 at 1:45pm |
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lol yea they do it is normal. First time I seen it I was like wth.
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Posted: October 26 2011 at 2:17pm |
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lol yea they do it is normal. First time I seen it I was like wth. |
That blows my mind! Haha.
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Posted: October 26 2011 at 2:28pm |
Mine do it almost every day. I just went and found one and took a pic just now. Hard to see but that one in the middle has that dark line right above it, thats it.
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Posted: October 26 2011 at 8:04pm |
Corals have a digestive system where their mouth is pretty much their anus too (one reason I'm glad to not be a coral). Corals can't digest 100% of matter that they take in, so they expel the waste. However, corals can expel their symbiotic zooxanthallae under stressful situations. 99% of the time, a coral releasing poo-like stuff is fine, but that other 1% of the time may mean the corals are stressed. I always tell everyone to keep an eye on their corals if they start looking bleached...then it wasn't typical poo.
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Posted: October 26 2011 at 9:11pm |
Here is another pic- All that brown crap is... well crap.
Micah
Edited by Sculpin - October 26 2011 at 9:12pm
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Shane H
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Posted: October 26 2011 at 9:20pm |
where their mouth is pretty much their anus too (one reason I'm glad to not be a coral).
Its official, I'm just as mature as my 1st grader! --> cuz that is one funny sentence!
But perfectly accurate.
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Posted: October 27 2011 at 5:43am |
 Can't talk about poo and not have some fun!
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