Why so difficult?

[scubachris]

Ok I got a gift certificate to the LFS for christmas. Was thinking of adding a frogspawn or mabey a torch coral. I looked them up on this website, and both are catagorized as being difficult to keep. Why? Whats needed to be successful with these?

 

[jackri]

I got my frogspawn when I had PC lighting, now I have halides... just grows and grows and looks pretty and I don't do a thing to it.
If you have good water parameters and descent lighting --- umm should be a piece of cake

 

[oceanlover]

I have T5 lights and the frogspawn grows just fine, just not as fast as halides. I keep the frogspawn in the upper half of my tank.

 

[ophiura]

Hmmm, well I wouldn't necessarily agree with the difficulty. If you have a good specimen in an established tanks, with even reasonable lighting, I think it is a good shot. I would not put them close together, and they can sting nearby corals. Do you have a reef tank now?

 

[nordy]

Originally Posted by ophiura
http:///forum/post/2889573
Hmmm, well I wouldn't necessarily agree with the difficulty. If you have a good specimen in an established tanks, with even reasonable lighting, I think it is a good shot. I would not put them close together, and they can sting nearby corals. Do you have a reef tank now?

+1

I wouldn't say that they are "difficult" either; an established reef tank is what a torch and frogspawn need. My frogspawn has had some hard times with being moved around, going through a low salinity problem and PH issues, and has always come back. A torch coral will send out some pretty long tentacles and you really have to give it adequate space. I gave my torch to a fellow reefer because it was just too agressive and was reaching out to touch everything it could. I have found that my frogspawn doesn't reach out nearly as much as my torch did and I really like it's bright green color.