Carpet Anemone Question

[iam392]

I have a large Carpet Anemone and it is emitting brown liquid looking stuff from it's mouth. What is this and is it bad?

Thanks

 

[coolsurf]

I believe he is just emitting waste and should pose no problem. Not the first i've heard of this so don't panic.

 

[jennm]

What did you feed it? (OR are any fish missing?)

It's pooping.

Jenn

 

[iam392]

Haven't fed today. As far as I can tell nothing is missing. Just put a mandarin goby in tonight. It's hiding ( I hope ) haven't seen it in a while.

JennM;584851 wrote: What did you feed it? (OR are any fish missing?)

It's pooping.

Jenn

 

[jennm]

Well it would have eaten whatever it's excreting, a day or two ago. Typically if it ate a fish or a larger piece of meaty food, that brown glob is what you'd see once it was finish digesting it.

BTW... it's a Mandarin Dragonet, not a goby. (Not picking on you, or trying to be rude, I promise - the "industry" as a whole has been perpetuating this misnomer for decades, and it's just a pet peeve of mine).

Jenn

 

[iam392]

The brown goo is a liquid looking substance. I have fed freeze dried krill. It's been excreting this stuff from the time I first posted until now.

As for correcting me that is fine. It's the only way I'll learn so Thanks.

JennM;584853 wrote: Well it would have eaten whatever it's excreting, a day or two ago. Typically if it ate a fish or a larger piece of meaty food, that brown glob is what you'd see once it was finish digesting it.

BTW... it's a Mandarin Dragonet, not a goby. (Not picking on you, or trying to be rude, I promise - the "industry" as a whole has been perpetuating this misnomer for decades, and it's just a pet peeve of mine).

Jenn

 

[jennm]

Yep the krill would make for that kind of poop

I appreciate that you "heard" me as intended. The reason it peeves me so, is that in general, gobies are easy-care fish. Dragonets, not so much. For the most part they will only eat live food (amphipods and copepods they find in the live rock), and as such, that makes them more difficult to maintain. "The Industry" does the same thing with the Scooter Dragonet, by mis-naming it the "Scooter Blenny". It's not a blenny any more than the Mandarin is a goby.

I've been in the hobby 25 years, and they've *always* done that

Jenn

 

[iam392]

Thanks. I've just never seen one do this for the almost 45 minutes this one did. I thought it may be spawing the smoke type stuff was a dark brown color which led me to thinking it was pooping. I just wanted to verify.

Always look forward to your responses.:thumbs:

JennM;584903 wrote: Yep the krill would make for that kind of poop

I appreciate that you "heard" me as intended. The reason it peeves me so, is that in general, gobies are easy-care fish. Dragonets, not so much. For the most part they will only eat live food (amphipods and copepods they find in the live rock), and as such, that makes them more difficult to maintain. "The Industry" does the same thing with the Scooter Dragonet, by mis-naming it the "Scooter Blenny". It's not a blenny any more than the Mandarin is a goby.

I've been in the hobby 25 years, and they've *always* done that

Jenn