my frogspawn fraged itself! :)

[don954]

I noticed this while i was updating my photos of my tank. So i guess i have 2 frogspawns!

This is the source colony:

This is what it looked like 6 months ago as a damaged frag from Big Als:

Now it has 4 heads & lots of mass, I love growing my corals from little frags..

 

[ninjamini]

That rocks. I also love growing them from frags. Its more fun that way.

 

[scubasteve247]

no way!

did it just show up? or fall of your colony? cause its possible that your frogspawn spawned...

 

[don954]

if it spawned it did it asexually, i don't have another in the tank.. I was looking my rocks over getting ready for my 6 month progress pictures and i noticed it, I was very happy to see it! It is possible it broke off from the main colony, the rock it is mounted to fell a month ago and i had to remount the thing on another rock for stability. The location the frag is in is about 2 feet from the origin colony.

 

[jeffbrig]

don,

Frogspawns can reproduce by budding. My small colony has a few of these appearing along the base. I think any of these could detach and form new colonies.

 

[gasman059]

Mine has tons in its base-I'm hoping they dont deatch and grow into one of my acros !

 

[Ryanqk]

thats really cool to see good pics! how long have you guys had yours? i'd love to see my frogspawn put out some buds

 

[jeffbrig]

A year ago mine was a single branch, almost a bare skeleton after a fall into the rock pile (took me too long to find it and it dig it out). Today, it's about the size of a fist, and probably has 5 or 6 formed branches. For me, the growth really took off sometime last fall.

 

[NanoKat]

Frogspawns are awesome! I got mine when it was just a little "nub" too...

This was it after a couple of weeks in my tank (it loves Spectrum pellets)...

Now it's double that size and has about 5 heads. One side is dropping another "stalk" and there are "buds" all over the bases of both sides. It's pretty awesome watching its progess and wondering what one earth I did to make it do all this!

Can't wait to see if it does the same thing yours did...I'd love to see a little bud growing on the rock (as long as it's not within stinging distance from my other goodies!).

 

[ReefWreak]

I've been feeding my brown/green torch coral in hopes of it spreading from just one head to more...

But my pocillapora is releasing buds all over the tank, as I find new colonies growing on random rocks, a new spore colony almost daily.. It'll be awesome if/when they grow!