Frogspawn problem Please help

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thompson2224

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My frogspawn looked really healthy until Thursday night. It began losing color and turning brown and shriveling up. I had my water tested on friday by my LFS and only phosphate was high. I had it tested again today and he said everything looked good. Pictures are provided below. I moved it to a less flow area now. What could be the problem? How do I fix it? Is it dying now?



 
the first thing i always check with my euphyllia is alkalinity. my frogspawn especially always seemed to be my canary in the coal mine for when i was having an alk problem.

aside from that, if everything else checks out, make sure no body is picking at it, and sometimes just giving it a few days can help.

how long has it been in your tank? do you feed it? when was your last water change?
 
Im kinda new to the LPS coral world and I also have a frogspawn (my first one) and mine does that when the lights go out, then when they come back on it takes roughly 30 minutes then its wide open again blowin in the proverbial breeze. I don't dose anything, have a 2 bulb coralife light, nothing special and it seems to be fine...Definitely interested here...
 
Retraction at night is perfectly normal. Sometimes mine looks absolutely terrible at night when it's splitting a head.

It's when it happens during the day that you might have to worry. Most of the time the daytime retraction is something that bothered the coral. In my case, it's normally my Cleaner Shrimp bulldozing the coral in search of food.

Ask my wife how many times I yell from across the room "Cletus, get off the d@mn coral before I turn you into soup!" :D
 
It does it almost all day. At night it opens just a bit more. I ran out of alkalinity test and haven't gotten more yet. I had my water tested at the LFS today and he said everything looked good but my salinity was a bit high at 1.028. I do have alkalinity buffer. Is there ways to tell if alkalinity is low without testing? All my other corals look good right now
 
Why you using alkalinity buffer?
Whats the exact readings from the LFS. Phos, Mag, Alk & Cal. That will be a great help
 
I haven't been putting any buffer in. He didn't give me the specifics he just said that everything looked good just high salinity so right now I put in about a gallon of water that was at about 1.023 salinity
 
That's bad of a LFS not telling you the exact figures........................ He could be saying everything good and just waiting for the right time to sell you some product. Next time ask him what is considered "looking good"
 
Okay I will next time. They usually only tell me when something looks off. A few days ago it was high phosphates. Today it was a little high salinity. What do you think I should do?
 
Did you do anything by chance to remove the high phosphates that they said you had just a few days ago? Or even anything that would of sent your salinity up?
 
Yes I did a 10% water change to get rid of the phosphates and that must have raised my salinity a bit. My refractometer read 1.025 for the water I added in but I believe it was wrong now and recalibrated it since. I had the water tested at my LFS yesterday and today and everything was good yesterday and today was just the high salinity
 
Seems like your guys at the LFS is guessing.............. and maybe playing you.
When they did the tests, how many tests did you see them actually do. Did they test for Ammonia, Nitrites, Nitrates, PH, Cal, Alk, Mag, Phos & salinity?
 
thompson2224 said:
I haven't been putting any buffer in. He didn't give me the specifics he just said that everything looked good just high salinity so right now I put in about a gallon of water that was at about 1.023 salinity
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This confuses me...To bring DOWN your SG, you ADDED water that was a SG of 1.023?
 
I generally don't worry about phosphates. Unless I see cyano showing up, they aren't even on my radar.

Unless for some odd reason it is very high but not fueling cyano!
 
What is the best way to drop the salinity if I don't have RO freshwater? Ive heard bottled water but is that truly the best? I removed some of the 1.028 water and replaced it with 1.023 though. What is the best thing to do for the frogspawn at this point?
 
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