Frogspawn looks weird

Reef of Fillory · Sep 26, 2017

My frogspawn started looking weird a few days ago. It's never stretched out the center like this before, does anyone have any idea what might be going on?

Everything else in the tank is doing great. Phosphate is probably a little high as I have some bryopsis growing on my rock

Biocube 32 with sbreeflight 16" with standard mount, blue around 65% white around 35%

The last two pictures are of it about 2 weeks ago

sfin52 · Sep 26, 2017

Possible starting to split is my guess

nautical_nathaniel · Sep 26, 2017

Probably starting to split, mine once decided it needed to quadruple split and grow four heads at once, looked like it was pinched and puckered all over the place!

Reef of Fillory · Sep 30, 2017

Frogspawn now is starting to change colors on one half of the heads. Hoping this just has to do with splitting and growing as well.

The colors are accurately represented in the picture below

Reef of Fillory · Oct 16, 2017

New pictures from today 10/16

Reef of Fillory · Oct 16, 2017

I moved it down towards the bottom of the tank, I'm thinking it might have bleached? All parameters are within the normal range aside from slightly elevated magnesium (was thinking about trying to kill bryopsis) but changed my mind, going to use flucanazol

Any ideas for what is happening?

S-t-r-e-t-c-h · Oct 16, 2017

Head on the right definitely looks like it's bleaching. Has anything changed recently? Light intensity/duration? Added carbon or GFO?

It seems to be only one head; is that the one closer to the light source?

Reef of Fillory · Oct 17, 2017

S-t-r-e-t-c-h said:
Head on the right definitely looks like it's bleaching. Has anything changed recently? Light intensity/duration? Added carbon or GFO?

It seems to be only one head; is that the one closer to the light source?

I did move the coral up higher in the rocks. That head isn't any closer to the light than the others, no major changes aside from moving the coral higher. I have since lowered it again. I thought it was weird that only one head changed this way.

Reef of Fillory · Oct 23, 2017

Should I "frag" off the bleaching head, or should I leave it to [hopefully] recover? There is still a little color on the bottom/outside of the bleached head. I moved the coral to the sand bed for now. Only the one head showed any bleaching/unhappiness.