Halloween Hermit on my Superman Rhodactis

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  1. adam

    adam Montipora Digitata

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    My Halloween Hermit was on my Superman Rhodactis and the guts came out of one of the polyps. I moved the Hermit crab for now. Will the polyp recover? Thanks
     
    adam, Jan 4, 2011
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  2. Corailline

    Corailline Super Moderator

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    It is a dry heat, yeah right !
    Yes the coral will be fine, no worries. Exact reason I do not keep hermits.;)
     
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  3. pgoodsell

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    You sure it was guts? If my mushrooms get disturbed they send out these white tentacle things forget what the called but there not guts, used in defense or for feeding I think.
     
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  4. adam

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    It looks like white stringy stuff and the polyps got small retracted
     
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    Yup mine do that whenever something messes with them. Yours will be fine.
     
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  6. Steve Goldsmith

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    It wasn't a slime coat? Halloweens are aggressive towards inverts.
     
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  7. adam

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    Just white stuff from the center of the mushrooms. Now it looks like the whtie stuff is going back in side the mushrooms
     
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  8. Steve Goldsmith

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    It's most likely feeder tentacles. A slime coat wouldn't go back in.
     
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    It happened when the halloween hermit crab was on it. I assume it bothered it fo rit too happen
     
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  10. Corailline

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    It is a dry heat, yeah right !
    They are mesenterial filaments, they should go back in.
     
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