Frogspawn dropping its heads?

[rocketpop]

I have had my frogspawn for years, it started off from a frag of 4 tiny buds and grew into a 10 headed beasted. Now all of a sudden the heads are detatching from the stalk and floading around in the tank. They end of settle whereever and they still open up.

Why is this happenning?

I know my nitrates are a little high and I have start water changes to bring them down.

I'm afraid its going to die...

 

[divecj5]

Although I can't tell you exactly what might be going on, I've read on here numerous times that one of the ways that frogspawn reproduce other than splitting is by dropping buds. Are they just small buds or are they actually the heads themselves coming off the main colony?

I don't think that high nitrates would affect it too much or cause that. Any other parameters?

 

[rocketpop]

Its the whole heads.

Sorry I don't have my parameters with me at work.

 

[Sk8r]

I've heard that strontium prevents polyp bailout. you might put each stray head, with some rock rubble, in a shallow plastic ring of pvc or under a strawberry basket to keep them from being blown about. I honestly have never had one reattach or grow after that happens.

Hang on to the original skeleton: sometimes life will reappear from down deep, but it's not too likely.

Partial water change will lower nitrate. Don't feed until you've got it down. You don't have any sponges or fillter media in there, do you? Those are notorious. So is a forgotten carbon bag.

 

[rocketpop]

No sponges, no carbon bag. I been doing water changes and its comging down. It was lack of attention.

Thanks everyone.

 

[rocketpop]

Its very odd, to me at least. All the heads that fell off the stalk and doing very well. The expand during the day and shrink back at night just as if they were attached to something. I tried to superglue one to a rock but that did not not work. There are very slimey.

 

[dalilo]

Hi!

Check your pump flow.

 

[reefkoi]

wow very weird, I have never heard of this before. Let us know if they make it.
C

 

[isjg]

I've had it happen to Catalaphyllia and E. glabresens (elegance and torch)
The polyps will end up wasting away dying. It's very unlikely (although it may happen in the wild) that they'll re-calcify in a tank setting.