HELP Why does this Paly look like this?

[PeterB113]

I looked by by zoa and paly garden and this one green polyp is like inverted and its mouth is huge?????never seen it like this

 

[Tired]

Odd. Do you have cleaner shrimp that might have stolen food out of its mouth?

Probably fine. I had a paly survive being disemboweled by a crab. As in, its intestines were pulled partially out. Palys are tough.

 

[PeterB113]

I do have 1 cleaner shrimp but i was watching the whole time this happened over the course of 5min... And i always feed the shrimp before corals idk whats going on. Very strange

 

[Tired]

Huh, so it did that of its own accord? Interesting. Any updates?

 

[PeterB113]

yes it did I just cut it off the frag plug today because there was only one. the others were pink Zoas. its back to normal now.

 

[N.Sreefer]

Looks like its ejecting zooxanthellae what is the temp and photoperiod of the tank? I read an interesting article from a Dana Riddle you might want to look at corals expelling zooxanthella is not always a bad thing. https://reefs.com/magazine/a-differ...hotoperiod-spectral-quality-and-light-dosage/