Frogspawn problems

[Goldndoodle]

A couple of weeks ago I bought a small frogspawn frag from my LFS. They said I could detach it from the frag mount, by easily wiggling it back and forth. When I did - the skeleton (?) broke longitudinally in 2, creating in effect 2 frogspawn. I asked the LFS if it would live - they said one would probably live, the other would probable die. Sure enough, a week later I woke up one morning to find the brown slime covering one of them. I pulled it out of the tank and disposed of it. The other side seems to be alive, but has been retracted since day 1.

I am also running PhosGuard for an algae issue that sprung up. It looks like from what I see online that PhosGuard makes frogspawn retract.

My Xenia, green polyp leather, zoas, palys, shrooms, ricordea, suncoral, are/will fully extend. And my Acan frag puffs up nicely as well.

So here are my questions -

Is it retracted because it was hurt, and it's in recovery mode? If so, how long should it take to recover?

Is there something other than PhosGuard I should be running to let it extend?

Where is the correct placement for frogspawn - I've currently got it about half way up in a Nano Cube 28G Intermediate, with slight flow. Is it up too high? Down too low?

Any thoughts on the subject would be greatly appreciated!

 

[Gundo5000]

I think moderate flow and light placement is fine. Make sure it is secure and doesn't fall over and further damage itself. It probably is in healing mode so just leave it alone and cross your fingers. I would also run some carbon if you aren't already.

 

[Goldndoodle]

I'm running Purigen, PhosGuard and ChemiPure (just carbon - NOT the Elite). Every now and then I see it puff up a little bit, but it's not anywhere near where it should be as far as extension. I'm keeping an eye on it like a hawk!

 

[thompson2224]

For future reference dont detach it from the frag, I will usually bury mine in the sand or stick it in a hole in the live rock. I brought a piece a frogspawn back from the brink of death so my advice should be good. Place it in the sand if it isn't already, don't allow it to have much flow, do good water changes, give it less light than it has been getting, it will take about 2 weeks to recover. Post a picture