I may have killed my frogspawn

Creggers · Oct 13, 2020

I got this really beautiful spotted colony from a local reefer. After about two weeks I decided it was time to glue the plug down onto my rockwork in its permanent location. When cutting the stalk on the bottom of the frag plug off it slipped outta my hand and landed on the carpet. The fall was enough to split the base in two...

I was able to quickly glue one half down on another frag plug, but it's pretty gnarly. I'm mostly upset that it was a healthy coral that my stupidity and slippery fingers ended up killing / severly injuring.

Anyone have experience with this kind of mistake? Possible to see a recovery?

Miguel Negron · Oct 13, 2020

Hm the best step I would recommend is give it time to recover, these LPS can be sensitive

Hincapiej4 · Oct 13, 2020

Check for a mouth. Does each half have a mouth or at least half a mouth?

Creggers · Oct 13, 2020

Hincapiej4 said:
Check for a mouth. Does each half have a mouth or at least half a mouth?

Too hard to see right now - they're very receded but I was encouraged when they started puffing up a bit. It did split about right down the middle so I'm hoping that the mouth split. Some of the tentacles were damaged when they hit the ground, so there's a lot of recovery needed even if the mouth is split.

Cell · Oct 13, 2020

Not sure it was super healthy if the skeleton split in half from falling on carpet...

headonkey · Oct 13, 2020

Hoping for the best! I'm not really an LPS master so interested myself.

Thespammailaccount · Oct 13, 2020

Try dipping in iodine it will help prevent bacterial infection and BGD from setting in

Creggers · Oct 13, 2020

Cell said:
Not sure it was super healthy if the skeleton split in half from falling on carpet...

The carpet is cheap carpet in a basement over a slab floor, might as well have fallen on concrete.

Creggers · Oct 31, 2020

So just a quick update for anyone that runs into this in their reefing journey. I left these two guys alone after the split. I didn't dip or anything, and just found them an area with consistent medium flow to keep detritus from building up. Early this week they started bouncing back and at this point I'd consider them 90% out of the woods!