Palythoa is expelling something?

[John Paul Rai]

Hello guys!

today I noticed a weird brown string coming out of my Palys mouth. I have many other Zoas and palys in the tank and all are doing extremely well. Does anyone know what this is or could turn into?

 

[encrustingacro]

I think that's poop. Also, that is a zoanthid, not a palythoa

 

[muzikalmatt]

Looks like it's pooping. Corals will do this after consuming food sometimes. Are you a heavy broadcast feeder? If so, they're probably just expelling excess waste after a big meal.

Only other thing is it could be them potentially expelling zooxanthelle but typically that's coupled with bleaching/loss of coloration which doesn't appear to be the case here.

 

[John Paul Rai]

Thanks for the quick responses, honestly these guys are in my nano tank which I only have a hectors goby in. Therefore I don’t really feed the tank any artificial foods, the hector Goby eats pods roaming around the tank so all I really do is top those pods off every once in a while. Other than that I don’t do much and I don’t really go out of my way to feed the corals. They’re all mainly softies and like a couple lps