Will a Paly eat a mushroom?

[Nubomb2K]

Shroom must have detached and floated.

 

[Salted]

Sorry I can't help but just wanted to say beautiful colony of palys.

 

[Nubomb2K]

Thanks.

He had a pretty good grip on it. Didn't chance it, so I irritated the polyp until the shroom was released. Everyone seems fine

 

[DangerDave]

It probably would of let go. Better not to chance it though

 

[Goodair]

Got any other pink shrooms you'd trade?

 

[Foxchase]

Technically speaking, they'd "eat" anything that would fall into it's "mouth" as a large majority of corals do. But i do believe zoas and Palys sort of just digest them by releasing toxins. (sort of like a jellyfish) as opposed to something like a lobo or scoly that'll pretty much swallow things. It would take a decent amount of time though so not something I'd worry about. I'm glad you were able to get them out.

I have the same mushrooms mixed in with my zoa garden in progress

 

[Nubomb2K]

They look familiar? U might be raising killers!!

It probably would of let go. Better not to chance it though

 

[Nubomb2K]

Its my only one. Not reproducing very rapidly either. I only noticed it drop one baby in like 9 months and that one disappeared before I could contain it.

Got any other pink shrooms you'd trade?

 

[DangerDave]

recently I broke a piece of monti off while I was doing some tank work the other day. It was small, maybe the size of a quarter. I couldn’t see where it was, so I went about my work. A few minutes later I had to walk around to the display to see something and I saw the monti piece I knocked off just as the flower nem was closing its mouth on it. Haven’t see it since, I assumed it would of spit it right out, or at least the skeleton after it dissolved the flesh.