Treatment for Frogspawn?

[melev]

I've got a Frogspawn in my tank that has about 12 or more heads. A week ago, one head completely died away in about 2 days. The rest of the colony looks perfect.

Yesterday two more heads did the same thing, and I think tomorrow they too will be gone. I don't see anything whatsoever that could be causing this. Nothing in proximity, water parameters are perfect. I don't see signs of brown jelly disease (the skeleton beings to appear as the polyp shrivels down, and it is bone white inside).

If you know of some type of prophylactic dip that might help keep the rest of the colony alive, please let me know. I could frag some of it, but this happened to another colony a year ago and even in the separate system the frags died.

Here is what it looked like until recently. The fact that the rest of the colony looks perfect is what is so confusing. I would expect all the heads to react equally rather than dying domino-style.

 

[timrandlerv10]

i just experienced the same thing--i forgot (shoot me, i know) to QT a torch i bought, and it died in hours, then it spread one head at a time to my frogspawn. i actually watched them die in size order (maybe coincidence maybe whatever!) over about a week. there were about 15 seperate heads, we still have 3.

i used iodine and new salt water (not the freshwater like for zoos), then i started using reef dip (which i have come to decide is just iodine...but diluted and more expensive..yay!).

we started prophylactic fragging--if something looked bad, we put a baggie over it, rubber banded it on, pulled that piece, fragged it, dipped the rest, and put it back in.

we also split everything into three tanks--the death continude in only one tank, so thats the only reason anything survived.

i actually watched one head completely disappear in about two hours.

good luck...i hope you fair better than i!

 

[elegance coral]

They usually die this way. Like a fire burning through a field. You stated that there is nothing in the proximity but the pic shows corals, zoos, and those nasty little anemones right next to it. If you want to save this coral I would frag at the first sight of tissue loss and dip the healthy coral. Then find a new home for him when you place it back in the tank. Just my 2 cents. Good luck!

 

[PRESTO2345]

Don't know if this will work for you but, I had the same problem last year. Darn things just started dying off for no reason. So I decided that this was the best time to start fragging.

First I cut away the dead or dying areas, and did some exploratory surgery to try to find the cause on the dying or dead pieces. But didn't find anything out of the ordinary.

As for the rest of the healthy coral. I cut them off at the joints where they meet the rest of the branch. All of them survived with the exception of the baby, with heavy feeding afterwads. Hope this helps.

 

[melev]

So what are you dipping them in, <b>elegance coral</b>? And what are you feeding yours, <b>Presto2345</b>?

 

[elegance coral]

You can use Lugals solution or any Iodine based dip from your LFS.

 

[melev]

Thanks. I wasn't sure if you were using something different.