Frogspawn
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Shaqinwi 65
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Starter coral for sure, seems like it's been the starter coral of choice for many years now I notice the price for it is outrageous.
jeff@zina.com
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Not sure on starter coral, but definitely a starter LPS coral. It still is LPS and needs cleaner, more stable, conditions than a Xenia, which would be a REAL starter coral.
On the flip side, they can be annoying, they sting everything, and if well fed they can grow pretty big. But they're easy to care for, pretty hardy and certainly good looking (though there's a brown version that stays brown...). They also can act as a host for clowns, though I think the frogspawn isn't particularly crazy about this.
No idea why prices have increased for these, but you can usually find one at a frag swap or local club for a reasonable price. I know one specimen that is huge, possibly 10 inches or so, and a nice purple color -- So how come my LFS almost always has green ones with only a half dozen or so polyps for $59?
Jeff
On the flip side, they can be annoying, they sting everything, and if well fed they can grow pretty big. But they're easy to care for, pretty hardy and certainly good looking (though there's a brown version that stays brown...). They also can act as a host for clowns, though I think the frogspawn isn't particularly crazy about this.
No idea why prices have increased for these, but you can usually find one at a frag swap or local club for a reasonable price. I know one specimen that is huge, possibly 10 inches or so, and a nice purple color -- So how come my LFS almost always has green ones with only a half dozen or so polyps for $59?
Jeff
You will need to supplement calcium with ANY stony corals. They need more than comes in the salt mix once they start growing. Three methods of doing this are: for small tanks up to 30 gallon---hand dosing; for medium tanks, up to 100 gallons, kalk; for big tanks, calcium reactor.
tspors
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The above statement is false.
This Frog is near 3 years old. The only dosing I do has been in the last year and the only dosing is Mydor. All tanks are different so be careful about blanket statements attempting to tell you what you MUST or NEED to do in this hobby.
Good Luck,
I have found this a very easy coral to take care of. The tank is a 150g
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Shaqinwi 65
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Amen brother. Also, over the years I have noticed a coorelaion between large post counts and extreem (I think "bad" is too strong of a word) advice. I think a person who has 10,000 plus posts, by nature, has an extreem personality and would be inclined to give advice that may be true but is not practical.
Palting
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Man, that is one HUGE frogspawn, tspors!
I'd rate it easy as far as stonies go. I got a poor specimen as a giveaway a few weeks back. Three heads, with only one puny head alive and two skeleton heads. I just stuck it on the back corner, not really expecting anything. Darned if that thing isn't triple in size now.
I'd rate it easy as far as stonies go. I got a poor specimen as a giveaway a few weeks back. Three heads, with only one puny head alive and two skeleton heads. I just stuck it on the back corner, not really expecting anything. Darned if that thing isn't triple in size now.
maynardjames
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have had good luck with frogspawn semi easy lps
RotaryGeek
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I have a single head of it in my tank and i can't get it to grow at all. Now my hammer coral has more than doubled its size in less time than i have had the frogspawn. But the frogspawn does look good and is pretty easy to take care of so im not complaining too much.
psteeleb
Team RC
true story
My 300g spings a leak while I'm out of town
some friends come over to rescue corals, livestock and live rock, leaving the sand bed under about 4" of water with only the closed loop running
for some reason I decided to leave the VHO super actinic on the light timer but all other lights are off, no heater, no ATO, only circulation and VHOS a good 3' above the water line
about 2 months pass, I add RO/DI water only once every 2 weeks, salinity hits over 1.035 at times. at this time I'm only wanting to keep some life in the sand bed, then while pulling out smaller chunks of rock and coral skeletons, we find a piece of frog spawn with two heads still alive, we are amazed and place the almost dead frogspawn in our 29 gallon tank.
about 4 months later I split the two heads apart and place one in my new 110g build
ome year after the 300g tank leak
My 300g spings a leak while I'm out of town
some friends come over to rescue corals, livestock and live rock, leaving the sand bed under about 4" of water with only the closed loop running
for some reason I decided to leave the VHO super actinic on the light timer but all other lights are off, no heater, no ATO, only circulation and VHOS a good 3' above the water line
about 2 months pass, I add RO/DI water only once every 2 weeks, salinity hits over 1.035 at times. at this time I'm only wanting to keep some life in the sand bed, then while pulling out smaller chunks of rock and coral skeletons, we find a piece of frog spawn with two heads still alive, we are amazed and place the almost dead frogspawn in our 29 gallon tank.
about 4 months later I split the two heads apart and place one in my new 110g build
ome year after the 300g tank leak
iamwrasseman
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frogspawns are pretty easy to care for and if you do regular weekly water changes then you wont need any supplementation IMO . you can supplement and dose etc. and certainly speed up their growth rate but they dont need anything to survive .
I think your comment shouldn't apply to the Team RC member with 17,000 posts because, after all, he is trying to help us regular folks.
BuckeyeTodd
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frogspawn is the most resiliant, non-nuisance coral I've come across. I had a chunk fall under the rock pile. I decided not to break the tank down to get to it. So four months later I was doing something else and grabbed it, it lost its color but other than that doing fine. Anything that lives for four months with no light is pretty impressive to me
