Frogspawn.

Well like most corals the heads of euphylia can split to make another branch/head, this is how it grows.
Dropping heads in when its making a lst attempt of survival. By dropping the head, the euphylia can travel to a new destination to live and grow, hopefully one better then the current one.

But.....Im not sure if thats whats happening here, i've not seen anything like that, mine didnt go like that when the heads split, so who knows...... maybe geekdafied would know.

 

Hmmm thanks anyway phoenix, calling all guru's i'm getting concerned for my frogspawn and need some info, can't find anything on the net :-(

 

Nobody?

 

i had a green tip frogspawn, and as it has grown it changed from all green tips to a 50/ 50 mix of green and pink tips.,

also ive noticed during heavy spliting(not droping heads) it tends to look kinda shoty , sometimes as the skeleton grows and splits there are tentacles and flesh in the way. so it will drop off some tentacles.

just another guess it could be the tips are swollen with stinging cells , has it had to sting anything lately?


overall it looks healthy to me. i would not worry.

 

Not that i can think of,but will keep a eye on it, see how it goes, and update if anything changes, but thanks guys...

 

Hmmm its been drawn to my attention that the whiteness could be from bleaching due to putting the frogspawn under t5's it was under halides at the lfs?

 

Looks like its bleaching. Your signature says you have 8x39w on a 55g. If thats T5HO, thats WAY too much light for that tank. Thats 312watts, about 150watts+ too much for a 55g.

 

Put it on the bottom until it regains its color, then move it up about 4"s every month or so until you get it where you want, if it starts to lose color again, then its too close to the lights.Corals will adjust to lighting conditions, but not always.

 

there is 8 bulbs in there but i only use 6 4x39 watt arcadia marine whites 156watt
2x 39watt actinics 78watt 234watt total, is this too much or should i just put 2 whites on instead of moving it?

 

Mine bleached when I took it home from the LFS (which was under halides).. i put it under 2 x 65w PC's in a 75 (lol!). It obviously wasn't enough light. Bleached right out to completely transparent white/clear, where only the tips remained the green color. Now finally a few months later, in my 90 with proper T5 lighting (6x54), its almost back to the color it was. Was still surprised to see the color bounce back like that... I thought it was going to be perma-bleached forever. Obviously a very resilient coral.