Frogspawn head fell off

[tgirl6868]

Question- Please! All responses are appreciated I am really interested in knowing what you have experienced or your knowledge in this since I am a rookie and my experience and knowledge is not lengthy

My frogspawn head detached from its stony base and I have been able to keep it alive. I placing it in a large clam shell and covering it with screen. What I want to know is what will come from the head of the frogspawn?

1. Will nothing happen, it would just flourish as what it is now.
2. Will it ever attach itself to an object with its sticky bottom like a mushroom and/ or will it attach itself to something and grow a stony base? This is what I really what to know.

Thank you for you're response.
Tamara
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[patsfan1130]

It's happened to me before. Post your perameters please. Low Mg or very high Alk has always been the common denominator when I have seen this

 

[smtank]

Appropriately it's call polyp bailout.

Often associated with water chemistry issues, as stated above.

The polyp can stay alive for longer periods of time, sometimes months.

I have never heard of or seen a polyp go on to regrow any skeleton.

 

[maroonman]

I had a alk swing a while back . Had 5 heads bail out of my 30 Plus head frogspawn,
I placed them in my smaller tank ( low flow lower lighting ) its been about 3 months now, And 3 of the heads that bailed out now are growing skeletons.

Do not try to glue them to a frag plug or rock. this will damage the tissue . The 2 I tried to glue down did die .

 

[JReefaddict]

this is interesting, next time i have a polyp bailout im going to try to save them. i had just assumed that they were gone

 

[tgirl6868]

It's happened to me before. Post your perameters please. Low Mg or very high Alk has always been the common denominator when I have seen this

I have tested my parameters with what I have- calcium: 600, PH 8.3-8.4, hardness:179ppm, phosphate: 1.0 (all ways has been high), magnesium: (don't know need to bring to pet store to check as well as my alkalinity but I am going to guess that those are ok.

i don't really have any corals besides mushrooms and clams, but i was proud of my frogspawn. i started out with a small 4 heads which i made 3 others corals that all grew to be quite large. then they started to just fall off. they didn't even look stressed.

so i have seen the heads float around but then get stuck upside down and die. but i have saved this one which is thriving in my make shift shelter and am wondering.......If it will grow its own skeleton body.

Still interested in hearing from others about this which i am going to see what happens to my bodiless frogspawn.

Thank you,
Tamara
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[tgirl6868]

I had a alk swing a while back . Had 5 heads bail out of my 30 Plus head frogspawn,
I placed them in my smaller tank ( low flow lower lighting ) its been about 3 months now, And 3 of the heads that bailed out now are growing skeletons.

Do not try to glue them to a frag plug or rock. this will damage the tissue . The 2 I tried to glue down did die .

Thank you for your input which gives my hope in what i am doing might have a beautiful outcome.

Do you have any pictures??? would love to see them..:lol2::thumbsup:

Tamara

 

[maroonman]

Thank you for your input which gives my hope in what i am doing might have a beautiful outcome.

Do you have any pictures??? would love to see them..:lol2::thumbsup:

Tamara

Here is the Mother colony after the loss.


Here is one of the bail out heads ..

 

[tgirl6868]

Man your frogspawn looks awesome!!! So nice to know my experiment will have a nice out come. Thanks for sharing.

 

[zachogden]

Are you sure your calcium is 600? That's really high

 

[tgirl6868]

Are you sure your calcium is 600? That's really high

I rounded up cause I am still new when it comes to those tube test kits. I'm going to bring it to my pet store this weekend. Even though it's high it's really not bad for the tank right. It just means more calcium build up????? Right???? I'm asking.

 

[vividgraphx]

what do consider too high for alk?

 

[TrenchToast]

Just for future referance, I had an ammonia spike in my tank and it made all of my frogspawn heads fall off. (Only had 3 heads) Anyway, I did what you did and decided to keep them in the tank in hopes that they would start growing skeleton again. Unfortunately i didn't secure them in place with anything and they would float around when they where happy..... Well one morning i woke up to disaster in my tank. The largest head had managed to float it's way into my Duncan colony and killed all but one head of the Duncans. (7-8 heads) The one Duncan head that was still alive was damaged and eventually died a few weeks later as well. Very very dissapointed in myself. Needless to say after the massacre of the Duncans i removed all the remaining Frogspawn heads that were drifting around the tank.

Lesson learned, if you want to try to save and regrow the detached heads, secure them so they won't drift around or like the other guy did, separate them from your display tank.

 

[dartier]

I had something slightly different than your experience. My frogspawn developed a droopy tentacle, and when it was backlit, it looked like something was in the end of the tentacle and that is why it was drooping.

I kept an eye on it, and a few weeks later I noticed that the tentacle was all but torn off and was only connected by a small thread of tissue. I quickly pulled it off the mother colony and fished it out of the tank because I had visions of it falling off on its own and getting blown under my rocks, never to be seen again.

What I found was that the tentacle had started to grow a skeleton inside itself and that is why it was drooping. I glued the 'bottom' of the skeleton, or at least what I thought took for the bottom, to a frag plug and placed it on a frag rack. About a year later, that little single tentacle has now grown into several heads and is the size of a softball when expanded.

Dennis