Yesterday while cleaning my tank and getting read to do my weekly water change, I noticed a bright neon green goo float away from my splatter hammer. I saw that the two headed frag was contracted which is normal when I start sticking my turkey baster in and around the rock the frag is on to get any loose detritus so I didn't think anything of it.
Then I noticed another string of neon green goo coming from a tentacle and that concerned me. I used the baster to suck it up and the whole tentacle come of the polyp along with some brown slime. My first though was Brown jelly which is my worse fear in my tank which is all LPS... I removed the frag and inspected it in a 1 gallon QT but could not find any signs of BJD. I then dipped the coral in CoralRX for 5 minutes just to be safe and put it back in the QT.
This morning it is obviously still ticked from the move and dip from yesterday so it is not fully open but still open enough that I could get a good look at the polyp. I can not see any damaged or irritated flesh so I am baffled right now...
Any ideas what could've cause a few tentacles to "pop" or expel the color? This is something I've never seen before... I am dealing with a new tank cyano bloom so idk if that has anything to do with the brown stuff I sucked into the baster. The tank is a 10g nano been running since November with Livestock added in January.
Water parameters before the water change:
Salinity: 1.026 Temp: 77F
Nitrite: 0ppm Nitrate: around 5ppm
Phosphate: .25ppm
Then I noticed another string of neon green goo coming from a tentacle and that concerned me. I used the baster to suck it up and the whole tentacle come of the polyp along with some brown slime. My first though was Brown jelly which is my worse fear in my tank which is all LPS... I removed the frag and inspected it in a 1 gallon QT but could not find any signs of BJD. I then dipped the coral in CoralRX for 5 minutes just to be safe and put it back in the QT.
This morning it is obviously still ticked from the move and dip from yesterday so it is not fully open but still open enough that I could get a good look at the polyp. I can not see any damaged or irritated flesh so I am baffled right now...
Any ideas what could've cause a few tentacles to "pop" or expel the color? This is something I've never seen before... I am dealing with a new tank cyano bloom so idk if that has anything to do with the brown stuff I sucked into the baster. The tank is a 10g nano been running since November with Livestock added in January.
Water parameters before the water change:
Salinity: 1.026 Temp: 77F
Nitrite: 0ppm Nitrate: around 5ppm
Phosphate: .25ppm
