Frogspawn barely opened up today

[rja]

Hey everyone,
I have a teeny frogspawn in a fairly new tank. Little over a month old. This frogspawn is about the size of a tennis ball totally opened up. Right now it’s about a golf ball. It’s not totally closed. I did slightly change my light schedule and just did a 15% water change which dropped no3 from 10 to 5ish. Other corals are doing okay. Have about 30 zoa heads and a large sheet of GSP. GSP is totally open and thriving. All but 4 zoas are open. 3 unopened heads are on one colony of four heads. Little concerned about that colony but it was just fragged and I know every zoa is a little different. Someone please tell me my froggie will be okay!

 

[rja]

lighting:
Kessil A160WE on 50% max intensity 8 hours a day

flow: moderate, tentacles are slowly waving around

 

[Absolutely Fish]

Maybe Try adding some amino acids for the corals. That usually helps perk them up. Double check all of your water parameters especially temp, alk, and Salinity.

 

[Dave1993]

do u have phosphates

 

[rja]

Maybe Try adding some amino acids for the corals. That usually helps perk them up. Double check all of your water parameters especially temp, alk, and Salinity.

Salinity is 1.024, alk should be around 11 because i use red sea black bucket but i will test soon. Would Acropower work? Someone gave me a bottle of it with something off the FB marketplace. I know it says SPS coral but as long as it’s got a skeleton shouldnt matter right?

 

[rja]

do u have phosphates

Most likely extremely low phos. Working on upping my phos and no3 levels slowly. Added another fish today.

 

[Dave1993]

stop doing water changes ur water is too clean

 

[rja]

stop doing water changes ur water is too clean

Yeah I probably shouldn’t have done that water change. My no3 test was worrying me.

It’s difficult because I have so many sources saying low no3 is optimal whereas others say run it up to even 30.

 

[Absolutely Fish]

Salinity is 1.024, alk should be around 11 because i use red sea black bucket but i will test soon. Would Acropower work? Someone gave me a bottle of it with something off the FB marketplace. I know it says SPS coral but as long as it’s got a skeleton shouldnt matter right?

Should be fine to use that. I like RedSea AB+. You Can also try target feeding the hammer small pellets soaked in the amino supplement.

 

[Absolutely Fish]

Dont Chase numbers as much as worrying about keeping thing Stable

 

[vetteguy53081]

Resume your light schedule from before and reduce only 10%. Assure not too much flow but light is needed for the zooxanthellae it produces for its energy and building blocks. These coral are photosynthetic and therefore respond to UV strength and increase/reduction in lighting.
Frogspawn Corals do best when provided a moderate amount of lighting, with many hobbyists finding success with an added bit, or partial, shading. Euphyllia (theyre a member of this group) do not enjoy direct high lighting. Keep in mind that the amount of lighting and the degree of water flow work hand-in-hand in sustaining healthy coral life and growth. Although technically capable of survival, frogspawn DO NOT appreciate high or even moderately high flow. They will open much bigger in gentle flow, and will be able to grow into those beautiful serene tendrils that you see swaying within your habitat. (see my pic below- this was a size of a quarter a year ago and now 6"x4")
I cannot overemphasize the incredible importance of both lighting as well as placement. Never, ever haphazardly place your corals, select your lighting, or randomly pair different specimens or species within a tank, and just hope for the best. Remember, like any coral, Frogspawn Coral requires a very specific amount of lighting, and in this case, it’s not a whole lot. Unlike many other corals, Frogspawn Corals don’t require a whole lot of lighting.

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

A one month old tank is still going through a lot of changes that we cant test for. Would suggest to hold off on buying more corals until the tank matures a little and becomes more stable.

 

[rja]

Resume your light schedule from before and reduce only 10%. Assure not too much flow but light is needed for the zooxanthellae it produces for its energy and building blocks. These coral are photosynthetic and therefore respond to UV strength and increase/reduction in lighting.
Frogspawn Corals do best when provided a moderate amount of lighting, with many hobbyists finding success with an added bit, or partial, shading. Euphyllia (theyre a member of this group) do not enjoy direct high lighting. Keep in mind that the amount of lighting and the degree of water flow work hand-in-hand in sustaining healthy coral life and growth. Although technically capable of survival, frogspawn DO NOT appreciate high or even moderately high flow. They will open much bigger in gentle flow, and will be able to grow into those beautiful serene tendrils that you see swaying within your habitat. (see my pic below- this was a size of a quarter a year ago and now 6"x4")
I cannot overemphasize the incredible importance of both lighting as well as placement. Never, ever haphazardly place your corals, select your lighting, or randomly pair different specimens or species within a tank, and just hope for the best. Remember, like any coral, Frogspawn Coral requires a very specific amount of lighting, and in this case, it’s not a whole lot. Unlike many other corals, Frogspawn Corals don’t require a whole lot of lighting.

Thank you so much for your detailed response. I will take a hands off approach to this. The flow I see on mine seems very similar to what you described while my lighting can’t be described with PAR readings but the most I can say is that is seems to me like moderate lighting. I would say 50% intensity is probably “good”? I also have the spectrum leaning more blue.

 

[rja]

A one month old tank is still going through a lot of changes that we cant test for. Would suggest to hold off on buying more corals until the tank matures a little and becomes more stable.

That’s my plan. I don’t know how long to wait or what. Everything seems all over the place in terms of advice but one thing I am realizing is that it’s better to wait long periods of time than be sorry. I and many others need to understand that it takes millennium for corals reefs to develop and building one in your house is crazy enough let alone to make it happen over night. Creatures with hemoglobin are much more readable than corals in all their alien-ness.

 

[rja]

Resume your light schedule from before and reduce only 10%. Assure not too much flow but light is needed for the zooxanthellae it produces for its energy and building blocks. These coral are photosynthetic and therefore respond to UV strength and increase/reduction in lighting.
Frogspawn Corals do best when provided a moderate amount of lighting, with many hobbyists finding success with an added bit, or partial, shading. Euphyllia (theyre a member of this group) do not enjoy direct high lighting. Keep in mind that the amount of lighting and the degree of water flow work hand-in-hand in sustaining healthy coral life and growth. Although technically capable of survival, frogspawn DO NOT appreciate high or even moderately high flow. They will open much bigger in gentle flow, and will be able to grow into those beautiful serene tendrils that you see swaying within your habitat. (see my pic below- this was a size of a quarter a year ago and now 6"x4")
I cannot overemphasize the incredible importance of both lighting as well as placement. Never, ever haphazardly place your corals, select your lighting, or randomly pair different specimens or species within a tank, and just hope for the best. Remember, like any coral, Frogspawn Coral requires a very specific amount of lighting, and in this case, it’s not a whole lot. Unlike many other corals, Frogspawn Corals don’t require a whole lot of lighting.

Took your advice and light has only been on for an hour, frogspawn is already the biggest its ever been. I think it needed more light and less flow.

 

[mcgullen]

Hi. Sometimes my frogspawn will retract a few hours in the morning then come back to full size in the afternoon. You may not have to do anything. Just wait a bit.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Took your advice and light has only been on for an hour, frogspawn is already the biggest its ever been. I think it needed more light and less flow.

There you go