Frogspawn Help

[nickdizz]

Hi,
I have had this frogspawn for about 3 months now and when I bought it from the store it had 6 healthy branchs. When I had for about 2-3 weeks another one was even growing, but then something happened and slowly 4 of the branchs died off within 4 weeks. Now the Last two branchs have begun to stablize and are STARTING to finally open up again a good amount. Is it possible to ever get those branchs to grow back again or else how do I get more branchs to grow? Should I be feeding it anything? I have read that a long tentacle will sometimes come out, but i have never seen anything like that come out of mine. What should I do with with this little coral to get it nice and healthy again?? Thanks
~Nick

 

[mr.125]

Hey Nick,
Just let it do its thing...if a head dies it will not restore itself...but will grow new ones from the original skeletal base~!

 

[nanocuber7]

how much lightin do you have?

 

[pallan]

when a new head starts how does it appear on the base. kinda tryign to decide if i got a new one growing on mine. cifcular pattern seems to be developing on the base, i kinda thought the original head would just split into two? sorry for the hijack hope to get us both some answers

 

[nickdizz]

I have a 24" CURRENT USA Sattelite Power Fixture with a lunar light with dual daylight bulbs(The Dual Daylights are half 6,700K and half 10,000K) and dual actinic bulbs (Dual Actinics are half 420nm and half 460nm), these are the bulbs it came with. I think they r strong enough but i could use some advise if this is good or not.
For me seeing the additinal branch was seeing the side of the coral off of another branch was wat kind of looked like some new sponge but i could see the littlte tenticle things of the frogspawn. this might not of even been a new forming branch beeing as though i never really got to find out if it was or not. Its just wat i interpreted as.
another question i had was how do u frag a frogspawn, once its healthy of course????

 

[saltydog]

Place in in moderate to hight light, out of strong current and let it go. I thought mine was all but dead after a few weeks in my tank. I then placed in mid way up my rock work in the back of the tank and kind of forgot about it.
A head or two seem to hang on and then it just seemed to take off. I've fragged many heads off of this coral. You just snap one of the heads off where it attaches to the base.
Good water quality, good lighting, moderate to light current and let er go.
-Salty

 

[andretti]

Sorry to tell you this my friend, but you need more lights. These guys require about 5-6 watts per gallon of water. Your light brand is excellent, you just need just need more juice.

 

[nanocuber7]

i have mine placed high in the tank and very little flow over him. they don't open up if they have too much flow.

 

[nickdizz]

what else can i do to help him out hes been chillin towards the top now for a few days buit i havnt seen any difference or else when should i begin to see a difference???

 

[saltydog]

patience grasshopper.
-Salty