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    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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lol yea they do it is normal. First time I seen it I was like wth.
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Originally posted by fishnfresh fishnfresh wrote:

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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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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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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Here is another pic-
All that brown crap is... well crap.

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where their mouth is pretty much their anus too (one reason I'm glad to not be a coral). 
 
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But perfectly accurate.
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Tongue  Can't talk about poo and not have some fun!
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