Blastomussa vomiting every day

[Clutchiee]

The first picture is about 1 week ago. I haven’t seen it do this since.

Hi, my blastomussa is vomiting everyday before lights dim out. Lights are on 12 hours and off 12 hours. I have another blasto doing fine as a single polyp, but this one retracts every night and spits out dark brown stuff. It’s on the sand bed getting some shade because I figured it was maybe getting too much light. Before I had it on the sandbed without shade.

 

[jsker]

That is odd, are you spot feeding?

 

[Clutchiee]

That is odd, are you spot feeding?

Maybe twice a week but i give most of it to my acan lord

 

[Seymo44]

They poop and eat from the same mouth. It’s probably just poop.

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

The first picture is about 1 week ago. I haven’t seen it do this since.

Hi, my blastomussa is vomiting everyday before lights dim out. Lights are on 12 hours and off 12 hours. I have another blasto doing fine as a single polyp, but this one retracts every night and spits out dark brown stuff. It’s on the sand bed getting some shade because I figured it was maybe getting too much light. Before I had it on the sandbed without shade.

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When you say "spitting out brown stuff" are you sure it's not just normal waste? (aka poop)

Edit: looking closer at the pics, that's just poop. Stop spot feeding as much if you're worried... they are photosynthetic and consume nutrients from the water column so don't really need to be fed.

 

[Clutchiee]

When you say "spitting out brown stuff" are you sure it's not just normal waste? (aka poop)

Edit: looking closer at the pics, that's just poop. Stop spot feeding as much if you're worried... they are photosynthetic and consume nutrients from the water column so don't really need to be fed.

Corals poop? What the. So it will keep doing that? Or only when it gets stuffed?

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

Corals poop? What the. So it will keep doing that? Or only when it gets stuffed?

As @Seymo44 stated, corals only have 1 "intestinal" opening (per polyp), so waste is expelled from the same place food is ingested.

And yes, in some form or fashion, everything poops!