Frogspawn ejecting its head

[RockinSmall]

Ive seen it happen before and i know its common, but i am finally seeing it on a frag i got a month ago. its been slowly ejecting the head of the frogspawn and the tenticles look exteremly healthy and happy without being fully attatched to its skeleton.. once they seperate completely... what will likely happen to the fleshy part? settle in the rock or dissintegrate without its skeleton?

 

[Miasma_F]

I've heard you can save the fleshy part, but I have never been able to do it.

If many heads are ejecting, check your calcium. In my beginning days, I kept trying to raise my PH by continually adding buffer and I wasn't testing properly. Calcium was nil, Alk was sky high. Almost nuked my tank but only wound up losing one coral. Took me over a month to get everything properly balanced again. Still paranoid today, 2 years later.

 

[RockinSmall]

well i actually got it tha way from another reefer....

 

[xian]

My frogspawn dropped a single polyp on the rock next to it and it has grown into a new colony.

 

[RockinSmall]

thats crazy.. how does it just grow a skeleton??? its only tissue....

 

[xian]

The tissue secretes the skeleton.

Here is are a couple pics The baby colony is on the right

You can see where the base has attached to the rock, here.

 

[pimpinitup6969]

thats nuts i have heard that its possible but anytime i have seen polyp bailout the polyp soon dies

 

[xian]

This is the first time I've seen it in a Euphyllia. Pocillopora do it all the time.

This coral grows very fast. I pull 15 -20 heads off it a year. Its become one of the club weeds in my local reef club. It must weight 3-4 lbs which explains where all my reactor media goes.

 

[Magga Pie]

This happend to me about a month ago. I just looked in the back of my tank and saw all 5 heads still alive sitting on the sandbed together....Should I try to move them?

 

[xian]

Sure. You can remount them somewhere better or trade them for another coral

 

[Magga Pie]

How would I remount them? Just put them on a rock and hope they attach?

 

[xian]

If they have skeleton under the tissue you can glue them to a rock or a plug. If not, you can leave them in a small basket (like a strawberry basket) of rubble until they attach on their own.