Frogspawn Shriveling and Dying!

[jwoyshnar]

I would say alk issue too. I also agree with med to low indirect flow. High flow was bad advice. The coral will receed with that.

 

[acbaro]

I would suggest that if it does shrivel away dont get rid of it. Mine did the same and was nothing but skeleton. but i was just to lazy to throw it out, i decided to place it in a spot of my tank that has almost no flow compared to the rest. now after about a month it is now coming back to life and it is actually coming out of the skeleton now.

 

[LBCMatt]

I would suggest that if it does shrivel away dont get rid of it. Mine did the same and was nothing but skeleton. but i was just to lazy to throw it out, i decided to place it in a spot of my tank that has almost no flow compared to the rest. now after about a month it is now coming back to life and it is actually coming out of the skeleton now.

+1 to this. I had a piece which broke off from my main skeleton while I was moving it in the tank. It fell behind some rocks where I could not reach it, but could see it. It looked dead, but when I re-scaped the tank, I found it and it had grown back entirely. I know you can't tell, but that broken "dead" piece is the bottom part of the frogspawn I have in the picture. This "dead" piece is also in the sand - even though others have said not to put them there. This area gets good intermittent flow. I also +1 to the RODI water. I also used tap water for years, not knowing any better, and wondered why my phosphates and red algae levels were so high. Started using RODI water and the problems quickly went away.

 

[rgauvin]

dumb question, when you fragged it, did you take any pics before you fragged it? I'd be concerned the branches were separated. I'd hate for you to have cut thru the living coral when you fragged it.