no growth in my tank

[bergamer]

I was wondering why I bearly have any coral growth in my tank. My corals get larger, in fact they are very large as compared to when I bought them, but my frogspawn has never grown a new branch in the year that I have owned it. This compared to a person on this board whom I bought another branch of frogspawn and her's branches like crazy.
I habe this problem with all my corals, except mushrooms, which have spread around my tank

 

[speg]

Are you feeding the frogspawn? what kinda light do you have vs the other person with branching frogspawn?
If its just one coral thats not 'growing'... i'd say you're doing well... and corals getting bigger is them GROWING... I thought my candycane coral wasnt growing because they werent forming new branches... but I removed them from the sand where I had them burried and they were 4 times longer than when I bought them. Some things may just take time. As long as they arent dying and look nice... be happy with yourself.

 

[bergamer]

I have 260w PC
It's just the person I bought my second frogspawn from has to sell it bc it grows so fast, as in new branches.
I have a lot of LPS, and I have never grown a new branch and it would be nice to grow more branches on any of my LPS.

 

[farslayer]

Feed your frogspawn some mysis or brine a few times a week, trust me, he'll grow.

 

[bergamer]

how do I do that? just place frozen piece in the arms?
and is there any special time when to do it? like when the mouth is exposeed? or when not exposed?

 

[shoreliner11]

Try feeding like others said, it'll help with growth. Studies have shown that some corals allocate most of the nutrients they gain from photosynthesis to maintenance and a large portion of feeding derived nutrients to growth. This is a species specific issue and I'm not saying this is the case for your particular frogspawn but my point is, it surely couldn't hurt. More nutrients overall will not hurt the organism. They have polyps, why not let the coral use them

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Oh, and you'll want to do it at night. Just shoot some mysis onto its tentacles on each polyp and they should stick.
Aaron

 

[wax32]

I never got my frogspawn to eat but it grew 2 new heads in the few months I had it before dying to Katrina. I had it under 300w of VHO in a 29 gallon tank. Make sure your calcium/alk levels are good.