Duncan poop?

[Beckie]

My Duncans have been closed for 2weeks. Tonight I watched as 1 secreted some string brown stuff. Do they use thier mouth for both? They haven't been eating because they've been closed.

[steelhead77]

I saw the same thing on mine the other day Beckie. I was told that single polyp corals, like Duncans, are much like anemones and they do poop.

Whodathunkit?

[snowpunk]

Yep, it's possible. My lobo's do it also. It is actually neat to watch since their are maybe 10 mouths on that. It pulses and lets it out of each mouth at the same time. I have one chalice that has done it once also. More like what your saying with that one. Brown glob slowly comes out.

[stylaster]

It could also be expelling excess zooanthalae. If you have it under bright light, corals tend to do that until they adjust.

[Beckie]

O.k. both my be a possibiliy I replaced lights recently. They have been closed before and after light replacement, I wonder how long they will last if no eating. Only two heads.

[CA2OR]

Yes they do that. I have some pic's of mine if you would like to see to compare.