Cannot keep Frogpspawn

[DSC reef]

Just curious but is the store fragging wall frogspawn or branching frogspawn. Euphyllia divisa, paradivisa.

 

[Flippers4pups]

Just curious but is the store fragging wall frogspawn or branching frogspawn. Euphyllia divisa, paradivisa.

Walls are notorious to not do well at all in captivity.

 

[DSC reef]

Walls are notorious to not do well at all in captivity.

This was my initial thinking as well.

 

[mich2599]

They were all branching. No wall.

 

[mich2599]

As you can see on the upper head there is white were the flesh starts at the base. This will keep moving up until eventually all of the head is gone

 

[mich2599]

the dead one. Tentacles fell off today

 

[saltwaterpicaso]

thats odd i have always had really good luck with all my aussie euphlyia and if the flesh that is at the base is slowly receding i would say something is eating it bacteria or a pest i would look at it with a flashlight at night and see if anything is around it

 

[saltwaterpicaso]

put a full tank picture up

 

[saltwaterpicaso]

and that looks like polyp bailout

 

[mich2599]

thats odd i have always had really good luck with all my aussie euphlyia and if the flesh that is at the base is slowly receding i would say something is eating it bacteria or a pest i would look at it with a flashlight at night and see if anything is around it

Nope nothing. Look at tank almost daily at night and nothing is bothering them. They also come from different tanks at the fish store and were all introduced at different times as well.

 

[saltwaterpicaso]

do you have a close up full tank picture with the whites on

 

[mich2599]

I marked where I placed all my frags. The current frogspawn that’s upfront (not touching the elegance) I just moved there today from where the circle that is to left is. The one that just melted away today was were the hammer is currently at. The other was up top close to where the anemone is, but the anemone was not there when the frogspawn was.

 

[DSC reef]

Trying to think of anything other than bacterial or chemistry. Are the frags always placed near other euphyllia? If so maybe another low flow spot away from the others incase they are getting stung by the neighbors

 

[Flippers4pups]

If there's not pests and no brown jelly and every Euphyilla is okay, then it could be bacterial (though brown jelly is caused by bacterial infection.)

 

[mich2599]

Trying to think of anything other than bacterial or chemistry. Are the frags always placed near other euphyllia? If so maybe another low flow spot away from the others incase they are getting stung by the neighbors

The hammers I keep together the frogspawn were alone. I just moved my last one upfront today next to that hammer.

 

[saltwaterpicaso]

if that bubble tip is wild caught it could be alepothy or however its spelled i had 3 very expensive nems get wiped out by a highlighter nem that was wild caught i learned my lesson with wild caught never again

 

[saltwaterpicaso]

what does your filtation look like

 

[saltwaterpicaso]

maybe a stray crab your not seeing it does happen

 

[mich2599]

if that bubble tip is wild caught it could be alepothy or however its spelled i had 3 very expensive nems get wiped out by a highlighter nem that was wild caught i learned my lesson with wild caught never again

What’s that?

what does your filtation look like

20 Gal long with skimmer, filter sock, chaeto and a light that runs reverse to DT, live rock and some carbon.

maybe a stray crab your not seeing it does happen

But how come only frogpawn get affected?

 

[jayala12]

My frogspawn like less light then all my other euphyllia. I lost a few until i put them in less light