My new frogspawn

[schryvertime]

Just got this guy today. Seems to be doing well so far. I will keep him on the sand for about a week or so to acclimate to the lights and what not. Is it OK to bury the bottom of him so he stands up straight? In the store they had a hand full of these frags close to zoas and GSP. I thought that frogspawns were pretty aggressive.

Anyways looking forward to watching this grow. This is one of the corals I have wanted since I started my tank.

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[aznflyfisherman]

I dont think i would bury it, to me it looks like u have a good amount of small head growing out of it? Atleast from the picture thats what it looks like..

 

[MidwestReefa]

This looks like it has potential to become a monster! (As in grow fast). Start low and work your way up, sounds like you have a good plan.

Burying it, I'm not sure on that one.

 

[schryvertime]

This looks like it has potential to become a monster! (As in grow fast). Start low and work your way up, sounds like you have a good plan.

Burying it, I'm not sure on that one.

By bury it I mean where it is now. Put it enough in the sand to stand up straight. The other question I have is, do I want to leave it alone or should I cut the skeleton back a bit? I know I don't want to get close to the flesh but fortunately that skeleton is a solid 6".

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[schryvertime]

I dont think i would bury it, to me it looks like u have a good amount of small head growing out of it? Atleast from the picture thats what it looks like..

Yea there is a solid amount on that small head.

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[aznflyfisherman]

You could glue the bottom base to a rock that can support it but select a rock that can be place anywhere within the tank..

 

[jml1149]

You could glue the bottom base to a rock that can support it but select a rock that can be place anywhere within the tank..

This is what I usually do, a dab of superglue on a peice of rubble and then when it's time to mount it's easy enough to remove

 

[schryvertime]

This is what I usually do, a dab of superglue on a peice of rubble and then when it's time to mount it's easy enough to remove

Yea, I gotta break a piece of rock to do this. I do have a frag plug that I could glue it to. What do you guys think about cutting back the skeleton? It's a solid 6", could I cut it down to say 3"?

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[Reef Bass]

If there is no fleshy sheath around the bottom of the stalk you can cut / trim / bury without issue. I can't tell from the pic where the flesh ends going down the stalk.

 

[schryvertime]

If there is no fleshy sheath around the bottom of the stalk you can cut / trim / bury without issue. I can't tell from the pic where the flesh ends going down the stalk.

How do you tell? I'll see if I can get a better picture tomorrow. It's feels like a hard skeleton right underneath the "tentacles". But this is my first frogspawn so I just want to make sure before I do anything dramatic like cutting it.

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[schryvertime]

If there is no fleshy sheath around the bottom of the stalk you can cut / trim / bury without issue. I can't tell from the pic where the flesh ends going down the stalk.

This is where I would think about cutting them. I would have access to a dremel.

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[Reef Bass]

I agree. My Euphyllia grow pretty rapidly and I've donated a lot to my club. You could cut 1/4 - 1/2 inch lower to save room for burying in sand or epoxy for mounting.

Dremel can work well. Diamond blade band saw works best. Fragging shears can work also, but sometimes the skeleton can shatter instead of cut, which can damage the polyp.

Your suggested cuts would leave two frags, which could be positioned in different light and flow areas of your tank, to see which produces better health / growth.

 

[schryvertime]

I agree. My Euphyllia grow pretty rapidly and I've donated a lot to my club. You could cut 1/4 - 1/2 inch lower to save room for burying in sand or epoxy for mounting.

Dremel can work well. Diamond blade band saw works best. Fragging shears can work also, but sometimes the skeleton can shatter instead of cut, which can damage the polyp.

Your suggested cuts would leave two frags, which could be positioned in different light and flow areas of your tank, to see which produces better health / growth.

I like everything you said there. In a few weeks that is what I think I am going to do. Thanks.

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[schryvertime]

I agree. My Euphyllia grow pretty rapidly and I've donated a lot to my club. You could cut 1/4 - 1/2 inch lower to save room for burying in sand or epoxy for mounting.

Dremel can work well. Diamond blade band saw works best. Fragging shears can work also, but sometimes the skeleton can shatter instead of cut, which can damage the polyp.

Your suggested cuts would leave two frags, which could be positioned in different light and flow areas of your tank, to see which produces better health / growth.

One more thing, sorry I don't mean to bug you to death. Everything I have read states that these are very aggressive and will damage other coral but at the store they have frags of these scattered all through many frag tanks close to zoas GSP and mushrooms. What is your experience with placement and the surrounding corals?

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[Reef Bass]

Take care and be cautious. It's all about prohibiting physical contact. I currently have about a half dozen frogspawn frags, with between one and a dozen heads, scattered around my tank but they are not touching anything. While frogspawn and hammers can and do change size daily by inflating and deflating, they are less apt to (but capable of) send ridiculously longer tentacles hunting for neighbors to sting as my torch coral seems to enjoy doing.

Last week one of my hammer frags fell over (I suspect a large Mexican turbo snail bulldozed it) and killed the corner of a favia it landed next to and favias can be killing machines. Grrrr.

 

[schryvertime]

Take care and be cautious. It's all about prohibiting physical contact. I currently have about a half dozen frogspawn frags, with between one and a dozen heads, scattered around my tank but they are not touching anything. While frogspawn and hammers can and do change size daily by inflating and deflating, they are less apt to (but capable of) send ridiculously longer tentacles hunting for neighbors to sting as my torch coral seems to enjoy doing.

Last week one of my hammer frags fell over (I suspect a large Mexican turbo snail bulldozed it) and killed the corner of a favia it landed next to and favias can be killing machines. Grrrr.

This thing looks better in 4 days in my tank than it did at the store. It seems bigger already. Loving it. I am wondering if I should really move it at all in a few weeks.

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[Webmanny]

Honestly it looks happy where it is and the fact that it has heads already growing from the bottom of the skeleton tells me that you may not want to cut it away. Try to envision how it will look when all those heads at the bottom start growing. I think it will look really nice.

One thing I would do is mount it to something to bring it a bit away from the rock so it can get light all around and also give it more stability. I know my CUC will bulldoze anything that is not glued to a rock.

 

[schryvertime]

Honestly it looks happy where it is and the fact that it has heads already growing from the bottom of the skeleton tells me that you may not want to cut it away. Try to envision how it will look when all those heads at the bottom start growing. I think it will look really nice.

One thing I would do is mount it to something to bring it a bit away from the rock so it can get light all around and also give it more stability. I know my CUC will bulldoze anything that is not glued to a rock.

I am really starting to think the same thing. If there is one thing that I have learned is not to even think about moving a happy coral.

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