what causes polyp bail out?

I just added a small frag of frogspawn to my tank on Sunday and the next day, it was skeleton?? I don't see any of the polyps anywhere but maybe they got blown somewhere? Very weird. Any ideas?

 

You see OFK, when a momma polyp and a daddy polyp get together........lol. seriously though, to much flow could be a culprit. Maybe its related in the same sense as an anemone splitting as a way to seed itself elswhere for survival? I'm ranting, sorry

 

You're funny I did move it from high flow because I could tell it was not happy. It was so quick, like overnight.....

 

Stress too. If you just added it recently it could have been stressed out and bailed. I know this is an SPS but the same thing happened to my poccilopora, I didn't acclimate it long enough and put it in my tank and it bailed ~20 polyps.

 

Do you have peppermint shrimp in your tank? I once had them devour a large frogspawn colony in a few days.

 

I've got two of them and I have never had a problem. Maybe they were blind and thought they were in a field of aptaisia?? Lol.

 

I'm also leaning towards something ate it.

For me- you might remember my similar frogspawn mystery, and then I saw my goby pulling off the polyps and spitting them out!

I hope you find the culprit/reason.

 

They also really don't like aptaisa. Thats what killed mine.

 

Being that fast and not seeing any polyps I bet it got injured and died due to a bacterial infection. I have had euphyllia heads get infected and overnight they are totally gone.

 

Yup. Or even simple acclimation stress from one system to another can cause them to melt overnight. If bacterial sets in it's a matter of hours sometimes.