Do SPS corals bleed?

[Jay Fortay]

I know this is a really strange question. I had a favorite SPS of mine not take to well to a replacement halide bulb. After I noticed some bleaching/STN/RTNish events I decided to try to make a last ditch effort to frag it. When I finally snapped the main "trunk" of the colony this is what I found...


http://im1.shutterfly.com/media/47b9d825b3127ccec71dd0b3804500000040O00QbMWLFo4Ysge3nwU/cC/f%3D0/ps%3D50/r%3D0/rx%3D550/ry%3D400/

Weird.

[SPSpirate]

no they dont bleed..lol...you sure you didnt cut your finger?

[stagcrazy]

rofl or he could have been eating a hotdog and dropped some ketchup on it.sorry dude never seen that before.

[Kirk_M]

I've had that happen before too...I see it mostly where a coral was superglued to whatever substrate (frag plug, rock rubble, whatever) when you detach it from there...for some reason, the skeleton right at that point sometimes looks orange-red. It's not bleeding though...there's no vascular/circulatory system.