Frogspawn question

[Nu2SW]

For people who have frogspawn. What do you guys do for feeding....

Ive tried to find something on wetwebmedia, but I havent found anything....

So are they filter feeders or do they eat small pieces of shrimp?

 

[duec22]

I've never been able to get mine to accept direct feedings, but it always grows....However I have read that many people do feed them, I'm just not sure how. It may be that mine is just a different strain or it may be that mine has gone without direct feeding for so long, that it doesn't remeber how to eat (I went though this with a brain I stoped feeding for a year or so, and just recently have been able to get it to take food again).

 

[dots]

when I shocked mine with new lights, I used a syringe you get in the alk tests and squirted a little cylcopeeze and phyto in a mixture. Turned off the heads while doing it. They seemed to accept very little of it. But, I think that is what pulled them through.

I wouldn't mind some advise from the LPS gurus either on this subject.

I also seem to keep them alive, but they don't grow.......
I would think from feeding the fish and as mentioned above, they whole family of euphyllia seem not to aggresive in feeding, which leads me to believe they may be more of a filter feeder, because their natural habitat is more dirtier, nutrient rich lagoons and such......but the people who get heads to split every month or so perplexes me....tagging along

 

[Nu2SW]

I think i have a new head growing on the skeleton.... is that how they do it?

 

[Fragmented]

I am not a guru, but this is what I do.

I use a turkey baster to feed mine 2 times a week. I rotate food between frozen foods. I use Cyclop-eeze, one I make myself, and 2 others. I defrost them in tank water and very gently squirt them into my LPS. The smaller pieces work best for me. I do this after lights out when they have opened up. I use a flashlight.

 

[ReefRian]

Edwin, frogspawns reproduce from growing small heads out of the skeleton at the base of existing heads or they split in two, a large bubble will form in the middle, leave them alone, they eventually split in two and the skeleton follows each head. I have had frogspawns for about 5 years and have never successfully fed them directly, yet they grow and reproduce on a regular basis.

Rian

 

[Nu2SW]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7595668#post7595668 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by ReefRian
Edwin, frogspawns reproduce from growing small heads out of the skeleton at the base of existing heads or they split in two, a large bubble will form in the middle, leave them alone, they eventually split in two and the skeleton follows each head. I have had frogspawns for about 5 years and have never successfully fed them directly, yet they grow and reproduce on a regular basis.

Rian

thank you so much.. you know I think it may be splitting in two places. there is a bubble on the frogspawn itself and there is little thing"head" starting to show off the skeleton... that would be so cool. 3 heads....

 

[boviac]

I agree with Rian. I've never fed them anything but light and some current. Allowing sufficent room to grow is also a good idea.

 

[Sk8r]

Cyclopeeze is a good food: they can sweep it out of the water, as much as they want. I've also got my euphyllia about 8 inches below water surface [16 inches total] under an mh 250 with double actinics, and they're quite extended and colored.

Here you can see an earlier picture of mine, which I got as a single-head frag, but it turned out to have 4 buds at the base. I don't have a current picture, but the bud you see has quadrupled in size.