frogspawn issue, heads seem to be calcifying

[pleasants9]

So my frogspawn was doing great for like 3 weeks then this past week they seemed to be going down, phosphates were a little high at like 20 for a few days but i have them back down to 5, ph and calcium are fine, one of the heads has completly died i think and is hard and white, a second is abotu halfway there and a third looks to be starting...what could be causing this, i had it towards the bottom of my tank so i moved it up to some more like two days ago..should i put it back? Whats going on. Also it seems like there was this small bit of stringystuff coming out of the half dead one...

 

[meowzer]

Any way you can post a pic???? Do they have a jellyish brown substance on them?
what type of lighting?

 

[pleasants9]

now i did have a coral beauty that i caught nipping at some corals and he went back to the lfs but i never saw him nip the frogspawn

 

[pleasants9]

that lights were off when i took this pic. but you can see at the head on the bottom how it is starting to look like the one on the right

 

[meowzer]

hmmm...does not look good....about your lights?? what are they? also I can't tell fromthe pic...is there a jellyish substance on them?

 

[pleasants9]

pc's 4x55W with 2 actinics and 2 10K bulbs. no jellyish substance on them that i could see although a few days there was this brwon stringy stuff coming from one of the heads

 

[meowzer]

Well IMO the brown stringy stuff was probably "poop"
I had fs under pcs once and they started to do that....They may need more light...

 

[pleasants9]

k they are in the lower half of the tank right now i can move them up, poop sounds like a good thing...lol..i did see one head eat some msysis one night when i was feeding...

 

[meowzer]

Only thing I can think of is to get them more light...hopefully moving them higher will help...and it's not too late....BUT try to get them in a good spot...you don't want to move them too often...

 

[pleasants9]

pretty sure the coral beauty was the culprit, the heads seem to be looking better just 3 days after taking him back