While turkey basting my rocks I accidently got too close to my green torch while releasing the bulb of the baster and it ripped off 6-8 torch polyps which promptly began floating around the tank. I was so upset with myself that I walked away from the tank for a few minutes and when I returned I noticed that one of the heads of my duncan coral had about an inch long piece of ripped green torch coral polyp stuffed in its mouth.
I didn't think anything of it at the time but now a day later the duncan head that consumed the torch polyp is looking pretty beat up. It is shrunken and half the "tentacles" on that head have shriveled almost completely away. My question is if anyone has had a similar experience to this or if it could be assumed that the torch coral's potential sting is getting the best of the duncan after being consumed. I don't know what it is specifically in the torch polyp that enables stinging and whether or not it would still need to be attached to do damage. Thanks for any thoughts.
I didn't think anything of it at the time but now a day later the duncan head that consumed the torch polyp is looking pretty beat up. It is shrunken and half the "tentacles" on that head have shriveled almost completely away. My question is if anyone has had a similar experience to this or if it could be assumed that the torch coral's potential sting is getting the best of the duncan after being consumed. I don't know what it is specifically in the torch polyp that enables stinging and whether or not it would still need to be attached to do damage. Thanks for any thoughts.
