Fingers hanging out polyps mouth??

[bct15]

It has been a while since I have posted but found this sort of interesting and wanted to share it. I was looking in my tank yesterday and noticed one of my polyps had another skirt sticking out of its mouth. Anybody ever seen this before? Because of the proximity to my lighting it is difficult to get a good photo but I took one with my phone, the polyp I'm talking about is near the center of the photo, you can see a green skirt coming out of its mouth.

 

[Acroman79]

That's weird! Maybe it's a hermaphrodite! No I bet he ate the neighbor. Thanks for sharing

 

[ReefPops]

I'm not a zoa person at all, but I have never seen that and it's pretty cool!

 

[Zack]

Cool! even better if it actually grows

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[dorky]

Tht a rare sight to see .wow!!

 

[bct15]

I checked today and it still has the skirt in the center, it is really weird. I have never seen this before, I am trying to take a better picture but it is directly under my MH which makes my camera act funny.

 

[whixley101]

I had something very similar happen to some Ring of Fire Zoas. The "extra" skirt went away after two weeks, but I noticed a distinct change in color.(Maybe a Morph of some sorts) I still have 10 or so Zoas in the colony that are different color pattern than the rest of the colony. So the "morph" did multiply as well. Hope this helps. When my wife get home with the camera I will send some pictures on this thread.

 

[revhtree Verified Admin]

Very cool.