Open brain spitting brown stuff

[CAT]

I ran into something strange today when I tried to clean up my 12 gallon nano. I have a green open brain in there and it seemed to really object to me putting my hands in the tank. Everytime I went anywhere near it (never touched it) it collapsed partway and spit out some brown, slimy stuff from all the mouths.

It didn't do this when I bought it, transported it or moved it a couple of weeks ago...

Any ideas on what it's doing? Water params are normal. I did dose some DT's this morning and I've seen my bubble coral do this once in a while, but I find it really odd that it's suddenly so sensitive to anything moving around it.

 

[EdgeKrusher]

Were your hands clean? Maybe it's stressed due to it's environment. What kind of lighting do you have?Sounds like it's expelling zooanxthaline, JMO.

 

[nigle]

Oi!

It's a good chance that it is actually spitting out and 'stuff' that it has eaten and what you saw was 'poop'. It is also a chance that it could be stressing about something but it was probably just expelling waste. Corals do that sometimes [actually they do that all the time but WE are not looking at them all the time.]

If it is not looking bad in another way, I wouldn't worry about it. it's just getting rid of waste.

Cheers!
nigle
!~!

 

[CAT]

Well, it's fat and sassy again. I figured it was waste since I've seen my bubble do that... Just found it weird that it reacted so strongly by deflating and 'pooping' when i got near it.

Hey Edge, I always were gloves in the tank - my skin doesn't like salt water