emberix Posted February 22, 2008 Share Posted February 22, 2008 On my live rock, i have two polyps of zoas that were hitchikers. Just fed my fish blood worms and both polyps had bloodworms fall on them and they closed up and ate them!! is this bad? it was pretty funny. Link to comment
Hoobahans Posted February 22, 2008 Share Posted February 22, 2008 It's good. If they are true zoas they probably only closed on them but did not eat. Likely you have palythoas which do eat, although not everyone. All zoas and palys show the closing response to anything that touches them and if it happens to be food it looks like they're eating it. If they are eating then that's great as you now can make them grow a lot faster with extra food! Link to comment
emberix Posted February 22, 2008 Author Share Posted February 22, 2008 It's good. If they are true zoas they probably only closed on them but did not eat. Likely you have palythoas which do eat, although not everyone. All zoas and palys show the closing response to anything that touches them and if it happens to be food it looks like they're eating it. If they are eating then that's great as you now can make them grow a lot faster with extra food! so if they are zoas and do not want the food what happens to it? I can see it sitting in their tubes right now. if they dont eat wont it just decay in there? thanks for the info btw Link to comment
lakshwadeep Posted February 22, 2008 Share Posted February 22, 2008 They are cnidarians, just like corals and anemones, so they can eat things as well as use photosynthesis. Link to comment
DementedLullaby Posted February 22, 2008 Share Posted February 22, 2008 If a coral will eat the food it is generally a good thing . Unless the food was doused in calcium or something. That could be harmful if memory serves me correct. It sure does a job on nuisance anemones. Link to comment
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