Frogspawn + Placement?

[Reefynewby]

I just got a branching frogspawn for $15 today, and it has 3 heads (one is splitting). I put it on the bottom in a partly shaded, but mostly lit area. It's under coralife pc at 6 watts/gal. My tank is 18" tall, and the heads arent touching the ground. Is this a good spot?

 

[LockeOak]

That sounds pretty good. I had mine at the bottom of a 12" tank under 65W PC and it was splitting pretty fast. They don't need a lot of light, and there should be enough flow that the tentacles wave a little bit but aren't being whipped around. Feeding is optional but is kind of fun. One tip, try to put it somewhere where other frags aren't likely to fall off their perch into it, frogspawn stings pretty hard. I've had zoanthid disks fall off into a frogspawn and get singed, though they pulled through.

 

[Kaos]

I've always been a fan of letting the coral tell me where to place it. I will start a new coral in a place I think will be best for it and observe it for a few days. If it opens fully, consistanly, and gets along w/ it's neighbors then I leave it there. If it doesn't then I will move it to a different location. IME if you watch your corals enough you can learn to read the signs of too much light, too much flow, high nutrients, etc.

 

[Reefynewby]

in general, what's considered fully open. Now i have it waving slightly, about 4" off the bottom, and the two branches that r close together can be confused as 1 if you're not looking closely, and they're getting about a 1/2" away from the 3rd head.