Duncans dying or pooping help!!!

[ChiSox Rabbitfish]

Got home from work and found the duncans closed up mouths opened and brown stringy stuff coming out do they poop like candy canes or is this bad ??

#reefsquad

 

[Coralreefer1]

They are expelling a strain of its host zooxanthellae. Often times, corals will do this as a last ditch effort for survival. But they also do this to switch out one strain for another that is better apt to handle the current conditions it is facing.

 

[GabeM]

It looks like you have the skeleton of the coral buried in the sand?

 

[ChiSox Rabbitfish]

It looks like you have the skeleton of the coral buried in the sand?

It sitting on a plug that buried in the sand

 

[Yourstruly888]

Mine is doing this! what happened to yours?