Toadstool polyps falling off

[Eric Morissette]

I have a 6 month old green toadstool and this morning i found it loosing its polyps is this normal?

Parameter are fine nothing new

 

[sbash]

Can you actually see the polyp tentacle things laying below or around the toadstool?

 

[Eric Morissette]

yes the are floating off or away

 

[sbash]

Brutal. I have never heard of that before. Usually when leathers die, they retract their polyps and go all weird and melty and stringy...

Perhaps something in the tank is having a bit of a feast?

 

[Eric Morissette]

no i'm watching for the past 4 hrs i know im weird, they come out and retract but fall off...

 

[Tahoe61]

That does not sound right at all. Are you sure you're not seeing a spawning event?

 

[rockstarta78]

Actually I have had the same issue. The head will split and there will be a new "head" that will be attached to the older head for sometime then eventually it will fall off and I will discover that on the sand. I just glue that on a new frag plug. I'll add a picture.

 

[Tahoe61]

Actually I have had the same issue. The head will split and there will be a new "head" that will be attached to the older head for sometime then eventually it will fall off and I will discover that on the sand. I just glue that on a new frag plug. I'll add a picture.

That sounds like budding. Sarcophyton reproduce 3 ways, broadcast spawning, lateral fission and budding.

 

[Eric Morissette]

Actually I have had the same issue. The head will split and there will be a new "head" that will be attached to the older head for sometime then eventually it will fall off and I will discover that on the sand. I just glue that on a new frag plug. I'll add a picture.

ok ill wait for pics

 

[Watevadog5]

Same happened to me. Totally normal. Now you have multiple toadstools

 

[Jet915]

Sorry to piggyback on an old thread but seems like my toadstool is doing this. Anyone confirm what is going on? Just the tips of the polyps are falling off.....weird. Completely normal about 4 days ago. All my other corals doing fine.

 

[Idaho Mojo]

Sorry to piggyback on an old thread but seems like my toadstool is doing this. Anyone confirm what is going on? Just the tips of the polyps are falling off.....weird. Completely normal about 4 days ago. All my other corals doing fine.

Reproduction via budding

 

[Jet915]

Reproduction via budding

Cool, i was worried something was wrong, its my favorite coral in the tank....