Frogspawn pooping

saltwater newby · Mar 21, 2016

hello
I have a nice size frogspawn in my 75 galling tank. I'm running 2 Kessils 360we. I've been playing with the lighting and just yesterday I had the color up 50% which are lesser blue and more of a brighter spectrum but I'm leaving the intensity at the minimum 5%. I noticed that all the corals seemed to open up really nice. Aside from the big 8+ head frogspawn I have 2 additional frogspawns one is a 2 head and the other 1 head. I also have a torch coral as well. So they all seem to like the lights. But I did notice that the big frogspawn is releasing a brown poo like string from 1 or 2 of the heads this was yesterday and today I noticed it did it again. It's not constant and it isn't a whole bunch but of course I'm curious to know if this is triggered from the brighter light spectrum or if it's a good or a bad sign. Is it stress? They lights are not in the brighter setting for too long as The lights are on a timer so they go through a sunrise and sunset cycle. I use the Kessils controller .
Thanks for any replies and shared knowledge .

twilliard · Mar 21, 2016

Possible release of zooanthelle algae. Watch closely

saltwater newby · Mar 21, 2016

twilliard said:
Possible release of zooanthelle algae. Watch closely

Is that a bad thing? If it is, any idea what's causing this??

blackmetaltea · Mar 21, 2016

saltwater newby said:
Is that a bad thing? If it is, any idea what's causing this??

My candy cane corals are doing the same. I just changed the lighting.

jetmaker · Mar 22, 2016

blackmetaltea said:
My candy cane corals are doing the same. I just changed the lighting.

Can you turn the lighting down to acclimate them to it

saltwater newby · Mar 22, 2016

jetmaker said:
Can you turn the lighting down to acclimate them to it

Yeah
I just turned them up on Sunday a bit and left them like that
But once I saw it happen again yesterday I ramped them back down. So I'll keep an eye on them.