Whats happening when fragging Palys?

[meisen]

I recently fragged a bunch of "high end" palys. I can't say that I have noticed this before but immediately after being fragged several of the palys (goochsters, Roe's rainbows and Jokers) turned partially black. A day later they were back to normal so unfortunately no pics of them. Anyone have this happen before? Any idea what causes it? I will be sure to grab pics next time, its really striking to look at.

Weird.

 

[reefboy]

I have if you used cutters as I think it smashes the tissue a bit and causes something like bruising so I know use a razor when possible.

 

[RaysReef]

I just did some paly frags and had this happen as well, but all is fine. I think reefboy is right about the bruising when fragging. I try to scrap them off with my thumbnail first and only use razors to split/cut when I can't cleanly take them off. Some zoas grows like a carpet and can be easily pulled off the LR. Palys seems to be glued on a rock compared to some zoas.

Here is pic, notice the upper mouth has a dark color around it. Now it is back to norm. FYI- these Palys are dime size polyps

 

[kass03]

Hey Meisen,
I got some of those paly's from you along with the 2 chalice and they are fine and beautiful.
1 polyp is half black though but I dunno if you mean the stem part or the colored/head part? Mine is the head/colored part but it's healthy just half black.
I've seen that happen on other paly's and zoa's I've had and just thought they grew that way.
I asked you the name of them and couldnt remember but I'm guessing they are the Roe's rainbows? I kept thinking you meant Rose something lol.

I can try to get a picture when the lights are on.

kass

 

[meisen]

Yep, noticing the same thing with some of my mother colonies. And yep, the ones you got are Roe's Rainbows.

 

[meisen]

I have if you used cutters as I think it smashes the tissue a bit and causes something like bruising so I know use a razor when possible.

Could be, just wondering what the mechanism is. Mine seem fine today, three days later.

 

[kass03]

Thanks Meisen,

Heres a pict of them. The 1 polyp has some black in it but it looks to be less than the other day when I got them.

Is that what you mean by turning black? I always thought they just grew like that sometimes. I never noticed it after fragging.

Actually if you look at the ones above them to the left theres one with a half black polyp also and those werent just fragged.

kass