Sick Frogspawn?

I had some problems with my frogspawn a month or so ago, and it turned out to be phosphates.  you might want to look at that first.  I bought a sea gel filter and mine has been fine ever sice.  As long as the head doesn't start to disappear all together you should be ok. 

one more thing.  If you have moved it recently, it may not like the current or light where it is at.  Also you can look for your hermit crabs, sometimes they will climb into the branches and kind of pick at them and irritate them.

This is what was happening to mine.

Edited by acerob

Jamison, How are things?  has your frogspawn recovered??

Jamison wrote: I wonder if the red slime away got to him somehow???

A factor, no doubt.

Your tank is young and going through changes that are not evident in water parameter tests. These changes can effect more sensitive coral like LPS and SPS. The frequency of these changes declines over time. It may take a year, so be patient and allow the tank to take care of itself.

There are older more mature tanks in this group that can temporarily house the Frogspawn. I would suggest this if it continues to decline in the next week, like if it completely refuses to expand or starts losing flesh.

I just moved a Fungia/Plate Coral from Reefobsessed's one month old office tank to my tank. I hope to nurse it back to health then return it to her aquarium.

And one more bit of free advice: Ask us here on the message board what to do about problems, before shelling out $$. Many problems can be handled by obtaining knowledge rather than spending money. The help comes quickly, usually on the same day and is free. Yet, it is worth more than you can imagine.

my 2 cents



Edited by Mark Peterson

You guys are great! As a newbie, there's plenty I don't know about the hobby. I do post quite a few questions between here, RC and local fish stores. Mark, you are a great source of knowledge and one of the most helpful people on this or any other board. I assure you it does not go unappreciated. I'm sure there are plenty of things I could be doing better. I'm constantly fighting an algae bloom of some kind. I hear this is pretty normal for new tanks. I ended up getting the Red Slime Remover, because I was afraid it was going to start choking out my corals. You'll have to let me know if you'll be in the Kaysville/Layton area anytime soon. I'd love to have you over to tell me what improvements I could make. I didn't put all that money into the hobby to harvest algea, but that's what I'm best at. Thanks again for your help. I'm watching the Frogspawn and will let you know if things improve or get worse.

Jamison

Jamison is it Algae that is growing or cyano bacteria?  my new tank had a huge cyano bloom as most do do you have any green algaes in your tank?  I added some and the cyano dissapeared in about a week.  And I wouldn't recommend getting any new Corals until your tank is atleast 3-4 Months old.

Coral are easier to keep than fish. I also agree with Eric.

I place soft coral in my tanks the same week I set them up and I know how to deal with any algae blooms. My procedure for setting up tanks is posted here on the message board for everyone's instruction and profit.

I suggest that the use of chemicals of any kind in any tank less than six months old, is unnecessary, wasteful and can even be harmful to the effective maturation of the aquarium's biological ecosystem.

Thanks for the info folks. My tank has been up for 4 months now, so either way, I'm probably covered for many different types of coral. The Red Slime Away, which I now know I probably shouldn't have used, seems to have gotten rid the red cyano. I worry that while killing the cyanobacteria, it probably killed lots of beneficial bacteria as well, so it will likely take some time to recover. I do have a couple different green algaes going right now. Here's a little more about my tank and parameters. I have 135 lbs of live rock. I run an ASM skimmer geared for 250G tank. I also run carbon. I have an in sump refugium full of feather and grape culerpa. Amonia, Nitrites and nitrates are 0. PH is 8.2. Alkilinity is 8.5. Salinity is at .023. I have an RO/DI unit for all top-offs and water changes. I am currently dosing Kalkwasser to keeep calcium up and Kent SuperBuffer to get my alkilinity up closer to 10. My Frogspawn head is still receded. Billy at MSM said it could have a bacterial infection of some kind. Thanks again for all your help and support!

I wonder if my bubble tip could be the culprit??? Could a BTA be responsible for killing an entire head of a branching frogspawn? My BTA does expand to about 12-13 inches across during the day, and I just noticed that when he is fully expanded he is perhaps only about 1/4 inch away from my expanded frogspawn. Could one sting cause the head to shrivel up and die? I guess I'd better move the frogspawn.