Frogspawn heads popping off

[goalieman92]

Why and will they grow a new stalk or should they be removed?

Thanks in advanced

 

[LockeOak]

Do you mean entire heads or just a few tentacles? Tentacle shedding is normal and a sign of growth, I think.

 

[Muggle]

I think it would help if you could show us a picture. Not sure what you exactly mean...

 

[lbaskball45]

I heard when there is low magnesium or strotium it causes the heads to pop off right off of the stalk.

 

[goalieman92]

entire heads are popping off the stalk. and I dose strotium so I don't think that's the problem

 

[davidryder]

WOW I've never heard of that...

From Borneman's <U>Aquarium Corals:</U>

Sometimes these tips are readily broken off in currents, having been completely pinched off by the animal prior to release. This does not seem to occur in stressed or weak corals, and it may be either an unreported form of asexual reproduction or a generalized defense mechanism. Tentacle tips with swollen acrosphere are more likely to become detached, and the drifting tips, completely sealed like neutrally buoyant water balloons, stick onto virtually any surface they encounter, often creating substantial damage to....

Sound like anything you are experiencing?

 

[goalieman92]

not really.

I've had a head do this before in another tank, but it's actually managed to stay alive, what I hope it is is a form of reporduction and the head will grow themselves new stalks but one can only hope

 

[dwd5813]

that section refers to sweeper tentacles, although it is still interesting. from above it: "It has been reported on several occasions that sweeper tentacle tips of E. ancora may sometimes stick to substrate and break off, where they can then form new colonies. If this is true, it would be a totally novel and hither to undocumented form of asexual reproduction in the cnidarians and should be carefully verified." (Aquarium Corals, E. Borneman, pg 309)

 

[davidryder]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10873528#post10873528 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by dwd5813
that section refers to sweeper tentacles, although it is still interesting. from above it: "It has been reported on several occasions that sweeper tentacle tips of E. ancora may sometimes stick to substrate and break off, where they can then form new colonies. If this is true, it would be a totally novel and hither to undocumented form of asexual reproduction in the cnidarians and should be carefully verified." (Aquarium Corals, E. Borneman, pg 309)

Ha! Thanks... I wasn't completely making sense of that until now :lol:

 

[dwd5813]

gotta help out the other new floridians!