Frogspawn not doing well

Llorgon · Oct 24, 2019

Hey everyone, I have a frogspawn that's not doing so well. I moved houses and temporarily downsized from a 75 gallon to a 25 gallon. In the 75 the frogspawn was huge and since moving it just won't open up fully. It also looks like there is some loss of tissue on the one head.

Any ideas on what the issue would be?

It has been in the new tank for a little over 3 weeks now. Params are:
Salinity: 1.026
Temp: 78
pH: 8.0
Ammonia: 0
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate: 10
Phosphate: 0.120
Alkalinity: 9.7
Calcium: 450
Magnesium: 1380

I have a mp10 for flow and lights are radion xr30 set on sps phx14 setting.

rkpetersen · Oct 24, 2019

Phosphate is rather high, although not horrible; might not like that.
Other than that, could be anything.
Euphyllias can be very temperamental when you change their environment.
And conditions may not be as stable in that tank from hour to hour, as they were in the larger tank.

Mical · Oct 24, 2019

Is lighting similar to last tank? RE: exposure? It doesn't look happy in your pics. How's the flow in smaller tank?

Llorgon · Oct 24, 2019

rkpetersen said:
Phosphate is rather high, although not horrible; might not like that.
Other than that, could be anything.
Euphyllias can be very temperamental when you change their environment.
And conditions may not be as stable in that tank from hour to hour, as they were in the larger tank.

Could be the phosphate, but my phosphate was about the same as that in the 75 gallon.

Mical said:
Is lighting similar to last tank? RE: exposure? It doesn't look happy in your pics. How's the flow in smaller tank?

The lighting I had on the 75 gallon was SB reef lights. So probably quite a bit different. I have the radions at 50% I believe. I did a 3 week acclimation where it slowly builds to the 50%. For flow I have the sicce 1.5 for the return pump and a mp 10 in the top left of the tank on Tidal swell mode with a max of 50%.

artieg1 · Oct 25, 2019

In my experience Euphyllias can be picky about placement, flow and lighting. I would try moving it to different spots and see if it is happier. I've had pieces I was sure were slowly dying, and in a new placement they thrived.

Purplelobst92 · Oct 25, 2019

Llorgon said:
Hey everyone, I have a frogspawn that's not doing so well. I moved houses and temporarily downsized from a 75 gallon to a 25 gallon. In the 75 the frogspawn was huge and since moving it just won't open up fully. It also looks like there is some loss of tissue on the one head.

Any ideas on what the issue would be?

It has been in the new tank for a little over 3 weeks now. Params are:
Salinity: 1.026
Temp: 78
pH: 8.0
Ammonia: 0
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate: 10
Phosphate: 0.120
Alkalinity: 9.7
Calcium: 450
Magnesium: 1380

I have a mp10 for flow and lights are radion xr30 set on sps phx14 setting.

light might be too intense, if UV setting is up real high this can sometimes do it, also is the tank new ?

Llorgon · Oct 25, 2019

artieg1 said:
In my experience Euphyllias can be picky about placement, flow and lighting. I would try moving it to different spots and see if it is happier. I've had pieces I was sure were slowly dying, and in a new placement they thrived.

I have had the same experience and I had that with this frogspawn in the 75. So far I haven't found a place it likes. I wonder if it's because it's a tall piece that the light is too intense for it.

Purplelobst92 said:
light might be too intense, if UV setting is up real high this can sometimes do it, also is the tank new ?

I was thinking the light as well. The UV setting is whatever the default is for the SPS PHX14 light program on the radion. Might be too much light for it.

Yes it's a new tank. It has been up and running for 5 weeks with corals for 3 weeks.

I am kind of thinking of switching the lights to the LPS/Soft setting from coral lab and make this a LPS tank since all my SPS didn't survive the move.