Frogspawn

[Lefty McWaterbox]

So I got home today and my frogspawn looked off. A little drawn in. Upon closer inspection it has some fuzzy stuff on it. Is this normal? Should it be dipped? I do have a hammer about 8” away that has been stinging other things but I think this is out of its range...

 

[Uncle99]

Sometimes they do this, but it doesn’t last more than 24 hours.
I would not jump the gun so to speak rather I would just watch carefully.
A dip is going to add stress.

You have someone that is currently stinging others, keep a real close eye on that, at times they can stretch their stingers quite a distance,

the easy way to rule that out is move it a bit.

 

[Sosuke]

Can you point out the fuzzy stuff? My first guess is brown jelly but it also could be what Uncle99 said about other corals stinging

 

[Lefty McWaterbox]

Can you point out the fuzzy stuff? My first guess is brown jelly but it also could be what Uncle99 said about other corals stinging

It doesn’t look like brown jelly to me. But I’m not positive. You can see it on the right side of the top image

 

[Lefty McWaterbox]

Sometimes they do this, but it doesn’t last more than 24 hours.
I would not jump the gun so to speak rather I would just watch carefully.
A dip is going to add stress.

You have someone that is currently stinging others, keep a real close eye on that, at times they can stretch their stingers quite a distance,

the easy way to rule that out is move it a bit.

Thank you. I will watch. Ya, my hammer is getting a little big for my 100.3

 

[Sosuke]

Looks like the brown stuff might be it, what are your params?

 

[Lefty McWaterbox]

Looks like the brown stuff might be it, what are your params?

All are in range. Salt 1.026
Ph 8.2
Alk 8.1
Calc- 440
Nitrates-12 (they have always been between 10-15 as it’s a mixed reef tank.)
But all pretty static. No spikes of recent. 100.3 system I do a 10 gal change every week.

 

[Sosuke]

Everything seems good and no spikes, did you mess around with something in the tank recently? Re arranging my rock work let a lot of debris and crud out into the column probably causing my torch coral to get brown jelly.

 

[Uncle99]

These numbers are great, he may just be expelling a bit of his zoo, or waste.

 

[Sosuke]

These numbers are great, he may just be expelling a bit of his zoo, or waste.

Good point he might just being expelling something, but the photos didn't look close to the mouth so I wasn't sure

 

[El_Guapo13]

You guys say it is brown stuff, but it doesn't really look brown to me. But yeah, my guess would be it is frogspawn poo. That, or some debris flew intonit and got caught by the tentacles. Like I have seen the mucus casing my wrasse makes to sleep in sometimes drift around and get caught on one thng or another. Including my hammers and frogspawn. Just another possibility.

 

[Sosuke]

You guys say it is brown stuff, but it doesn't really look brown to me. But yeah, my guess would be it is frogspawn poo. That, or some debris flew intonit and got caught by the tentacles. Like I have seen the mucus casing my wrasse makes to sleep in sometimes drift around and get caught on one thng or another. Including my hammers and frogspawn. Just another possibility.

Look at the middle of the first pic I see a brown string but its probably just expelling some zoox

 

[El_Guapo13]

Look at the middle of the first pic I see a brown string but its probably just expelling some zoox

Oh. Didn't see that one. But I agree. Just looks like it is expelling something. Does not resemble brown jelly. Which was one of the first things I experienced in terms of unfortunate events in my tank a few months into starting my first reef tank. Thankfully I reacted fast enough to save that neon splatter hammer frag by removing the infected head.

Unfortunately just yesterday that same hammer had a polyp bailout (it had been acting up for thw past few weeks, meanwhile my bicolor hammer, pink tipped frogspawn, and twal tipped gold cristata are all happy as can be, and seem to be getting bigger). So now I just have an empty skeleton, and some hammer polyps in an acclimation box with some rubble. Hopefully they will stick to something and stary a new colony.

 

[Sosuke]

Sorry about your hammer but its great that all your other corals are happy

 

[Lefty McWaterbox]

Sorry about your hammer but its great that all your other corals are happy

You guys are great! Thank you!!

 

[El_Guapo13]

Sorry about your hammer but its great that all your other corals are happy

Eh. It is what it is. Like I said, the polyps are still alive, just need them to take hold somewhere and get to making a new skeleton for themselves. Hopefully.

I was actually worried for a while that the BJD had resurfaced, but I think what caused the bailout was stress. Not stress from parameters going out of whack, as other corals would have been reacting negatively too. But stress from pests. Specifically, a lot of vermiteds were growing on the skeleton of that hammer, so I know it didn't like the vermiteds' mucus net getting all up in it every single day. Also bristle worms kept crawling all over it, especially baby ones. And it also had a few instances where Aiptasia grew on it recently, which of course I then killed woth Aiptasia X. Add to that the fact that this all happened after I had to make an emergency move/upgrade from my biocube 16 to my current 29 gallon back in January, and yeah. I can see it possibly having snapped under pressure and deciding to abandon ship, as it were.