frogspawn advice needed

[SwiftysReef]

I have a couple of frogspawn and was wonderin if anyone feeds theirs, what, how much of it, and how often. They look good but they seem to be surviving and not thriving. And I haven't seen any noticeable increase in growth. Just would like to get some pointers. Thanks ahead of time for any replys.

 

[jwoyshnar]

I have had this coral for many years. Mine has really thrived. I had it under PC, t5 and halide. It did well in all lighting. It seems to expand more lower in the tank. I never fed mine. I started out with 4 heads about 3 years ago. I have sold at least 75 heads since and i currently have two different pieces that have 12 heads each. My advise. Check parameters, not too much flow and dont overskim.

 

[mnml]

i feed mine fish pellets about once a week and they seem to grow faster. Although like jwoyshnar, they don't require feeding to grow.

 

[jeff@zina.com]

I feed various foods, from commercial coral foods to mysis to home-made fish foods. They like to be fed.

Jeff

 

[SwiftysReef]

My parameters are around
Calcium: 455-465ppm
Alkalinity: 10.5-11.5dkh
Magnesium: 1365-1380ppm
Ph: 8.4
Ammonia: 0ppm
Nitrite: 0ppm
Nitrate: 0ppm
Salinity: 35-36ppt
Temperature: 79-84°
I haven't done a water change in 6 weeks and nitrate haven't moved. I have some macro and the skimmer is a reef octopus 150 I haven't cleaned in a week and the macro isn't hardly growing. So I don't think there is hardly any extra proteins in the water column. I also don't over feed my fish cuz all of them are a bunch of little fatties. There are a couple of coral in my tank that are doing great as in my cabbage leathers, mushshrooms, montipora, duncans, pipe organ, and my chalice (is doing the best though probably 12-14inchs in 8 months). But some corals like the frogspawn, starpolyps, birdsnest, and candycanes polyps are in full bloom and just not growing. My xenia was growing like a weed but now it dwindle down to two clusters. Im not worried about the xenia though. Everyone says how easy theirs grow and way easy for beginners to culture. I m just keeping them alive I feel. I could really use any input on these. Are my parameters reasonable, would I be better off getting rid of my macro (chaeto and. Grape caulerpia), should I not run the skimmer all the time. I don't mind doing water changes if I needed to but u can see maybe why I haven't. This whole setup was up and going for about 14 months now under four 40 watt t12s (2 act., aquasun, and 50/50) and one 175 w. (14k)metal halide. I know this probably isn't the greatest lighting but its either that or 2 400 watt metal halide. Keep the suggestions coming, thanks. Any replies are welcome.

 

[Algaenot]

Mine do fine without feeding but their growth does speed up when feed.

 

[SwiftysReef]

I feed various foods, from commercial coral foods to mysis to home-made fish foods. They like to be fed.

Jeff

How often do feed

 

[baws187]

tagging along I am thinking of getting one of these.

 

[M88A2]

when i started feeding mine just did a few squirts of PE mysis on a few polyps about 1-2x a week. it will also eat pellets and just about anything else. the only think with feeding is you have to make sure ur system can handle and extra feeding as well as feed your fish/inverts something so they dont steal the food.

 

[droth335]

I feed most of my LPS every Saturday am (just got done an hour ago) with the lights out so the fish don't steal the food (have to bribe the cleaner shrimp first or he will steal anyway!). I occassionally feed the euphylia's (frogspawn, hammer, torch, octopus..) but not regularly and their growth is almost more than I want.