Dead Frogspawn

tadd1968

tadd1968

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I purchased a Frogspwan frag on Saturday. By Saturday night it had opened up fully and was fully open as well on Sunday. Monday morning it was closed and by Tuesday morning it was falling apart. My water tests out fine. It was in a 55 gal tank with a ton of live rock and other pieces of coral under 2 150W 15000K Metal Halides. The other coral is oidng fine. It was placed in the tank very near a Xenia - could this have killed it? Any thoughts? I would really like to keep one of these but they are expensive and I have no idea what I did wrong. Thanks for any advice.
 
ctgretzky9

ctgretzky9

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Originally Posted by TADD1968
I purchased a Frogspwan frag on Saturday. By Saturday night it had opened up fully and was fully open as well on Sunday. Monday morning it was closed and by Tuesday morning it was falling apart. My water tests out fine. It was in a 55 gal tank with a ton of live rock and other pieces of coral under 2 150W 15000K Metal Halides. The other coral is oidng fine. It was placed in the tank very near a Xenia - could this have killed it? Any thoughts? I would really like to keep one of these but they are expensive and I have no idea what I did wrong. Thanks for any advice.

Posting your parameters would help diagnose. We may see something that you missed.
 
wax32

wax32

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¡Hola! WELCOME TO THE BOARDS!

Did you put it up near the lights when you got it? Frogspawns normally like lower light conditions, especially if they came from a dimly lit tank at the LFS.
 
fishieness

fishieness

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you probably burned it. If it was under a low amount of lighting at the LFS, putting it under halides would kill it if you do no acclimate it. Whenever you buy corals for halides and they were not kept under them before, you should always acclimate them to that amount of light.
wax, form my experience, they like more medium-higher light conditions.
 
tank watch

tank watch

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xenia sure wont help it. usually kills where it touches. been there done that...xenia can have very long feeding tenacles...6 inches or more
 
stanlalee

stanlalee

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Originally Posted by tank watch
xenia sure wont help it. usually kills where it touches. been there done that...xenia can have very long feeding tenacles...6 inches or more
xenia have NO stinging capabilities or tenticles. some can produce toxins which can harm some stony corals (mainly SPS). A healthy frogspawn can kill xenia with ease. you described frogspawn

Most of what I've read on all Euphyllia (hammer, torch and frogspawn) suggest they are pretty adaptable to different lighting conditions but prefer moderate to high lighting. My hammer at the pet store came from a tank with two 400 watt MH fixures (along with several other hammers,frogspawn and torch in the same tank) now its been under pc's for months and still doing great.
 
nanahugs

nanahugs

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I rescued a frogspawn that only has one head because the other two died off when my LFS owner moved to the shop next door to his old shop. It came from a tank with MH lights, so I placed mine close to the top of my tank since I only run HO T5 lights, 3.9 watts per gallon. I noticed early on that my Fogspawn does not like to be in a direct flow path, so I had to adjust my powerhead so that it would not get blasted with flow. Could you have had a flow issue?
 
fishieness

fishieness

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Originally Posted by Stanlalee
xenia have NO stinging capabilities or tenticles. some can produce toxins which can harm some stony corals (mainly SPS). A healthy frogspawn can kill xenia with ease. you described frogspawn

Most of what I've read on all Euphyllia (hammer, torch and frogspawn) suggest they are pretty adaptable to different lighting conditions but prefer moderate to high lighting. My hammer at the pet store came from a tank with two 400 watt MH fixures (along with several other hammers,frogspawn and torch in the same tank) now its been under pc's for months and still doing great.
going from MH to PCs is usualy not a problem. the coral can adjsut a lot easier. it is when it goes the other way that is a problem
 
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