Bubble pooping?

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  1. Puffer Chick

    Puffer Chick Giant Squid

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    So after my bubble had a nice meal of my chromis i think he is pooping its red strinigy stuff, its coming right from his mouth and he has bits and pieces of chromis around the area that he's pooping.

    i took a pic not the best, but it reall does seem like he's pooping, maybe constipated because he's really small and appears to be opening and closing hahaha lol

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  3. frkid247

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    haha yeah it probably is.
     
  4. Puffer Chick

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    he sure poops a lot :D he didnt evne finnish the chromis
     
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    haha poor poor chromis! i used to have 3 of those but two died mysteriously and the last one i got rid of cause he was a bully.
     
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    i had 5 and it hadnt even been a 48 hours, i have i noticed the one chromis in the bubble, and no idea where the other, i know he's dead because he didnt come out during feeding so its down to 3 and one happy bubble
     
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    May want to check around on corals expelling their zooxanthellae algae.
     
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    hahaha thats funny but yet kinda sad.
     
  10. Puffer Chick

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    ok, ill look that up to see what it is, i know he did this onl like the first day i got them, and once agan today after he ate the chromis
     
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    When you first brought it home, it did expel its zooxanthellae algae. It was trading the old stuff out for the new stuff you have to offer. It can also happen in times of stress and can cause some corals to die. In your case, I'd suspect it was the digested remains of your chromis.
     
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    ok i hope its only because of the chromis, the bubble is still crazy small and had been working on the chromis all day, i assumed he grabbed it last night, then this afternoon my shrimp stole it from him, i caught it in the net and tried to place it on top of the coral but he wouldnt grab it, so i just chopped it up and then the feeders took it then later this evening it started to do this