Odd Zoa behavior/shape

[toygrr]

I can't tell y'all how many hours I've spent reading threads, but I'm here for the discourse. Call it "umbrella effect" or whatever you want, but I've noticed this behavior only in my larger polyp varieties (zombies, magicians, ect.) where some polyps never close fully and instead make this weird bubble shape. This happens If I touch them, feed them, or wahtever - while some polyps open and close normally. At night instead of closing they sometimes also look this way, or stay open as some zoas do. I have about 11 different kinds and the rest look healthy and act normally, the pandoras grow like a weed. I also have many LPS, BTA, RFA, Softies ect.

edit: I've moved them everywhere between 30-100PAR, no flow to high flow with no difference, I've had this frag and the others for over 2 months.

78f
9 dKH
1350 mag
460 calc
1.025 sg
8.2 ph
15ppm no3
.04ppm po4
0ppm no2
0ppm nh3

 

[Peer.Boerner]

Following. Hope things improve.

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

The umbrella shape thing is unknown. I've had it once before and it fixed itself on its own, which seemed to match what I was reading online at the time. I see you have other pally's there, if those are fine then I would not worry about this one. Good luck

 

[toygrr]

The umbrella shape thing is unknown. I've had it once before and it fixed itself on its own, which seemed to match what I was reading online at the time. I see you have other pally's there, if those are fine then I would not worry about this one. Good luck

Thanks, yeah I found the same results in my search. Everything else in the tank is happy so I dont wanna hunt any numbers...Frustrating I cant keep these varities or anything similar

 

[SantaMonica]

Might be the same inflation that softies do, to take in food particles like a stomach does, and then digest them later.

 

[toygrr]

Might be the same inflation that softies do, to take in food particles like a stomach does, and then digest them later.

Yeah I've read that too. On some colonies certain polyps seem to retain this shape, and have been that way for weeks. Not quite dead, but not happy looking either...

It's just very odd as 9 out of 11 of my varieties are sprouting new heads, open fully and have a normal feeding/light cycle reaction.

 

[BryanM]

Honestly I just don't worry about it all that much. I think they go throough swings of different states for a variety of different reasons. If they bounce back to "normal" then to me, it is normal.

 

[toygrr]

Honestly I just don't worry about it all that much. I think they go throough swings of different states for a variety of different reasons. If they bounce back to "normal" then to me, it is normal.

Yeah I'm just gonna let it ride, I guess zoas are just weird sometimes