Frogspawn Help

Slakker · #1 07/08/2007, 12:37 PM

I just added my Frogspawn into my tank after 2 weeks of quarantine and a careful hour and a half of drip acclimation.

I carefully placed the skeleton into a crevice on my rocks so that it was held fairly securely, nice and upright, in a lower light, lower flow area of the tank (so that it could get used to the change between my QT which has 40watts of PC and my display with 175watts of MH)

My peppermint shrimp IMMEDIATELY starting picking at it. I figured it was just checking it out until I noticed that it had ripped the ends off of some of the tentacles! Of course, the frogspawn was all closed up from being moved/acclimated, and is still closed up, and after moving it a couple times the shrimp seems to be leaving it alone for the moment.

Is the frogspawn going to be okay? Is there something I can do to help it heal the damaged tentacles?

dc_909 · #2 07/08/2007, 07:58 PM

Are they true peps? Your frog should be OK. Increase the flow to help a bit.

True pep
http://www.meerwasser-lexikon.de/images/855.jpg

Camel shrimp
http://fishworld.com/img/032902/032902-107m.jpg

Slakker · #3 07/08/2007, 08:57 PM

Yep...it's a true pep alright...I guess mine is just a bit of a jerk. He harassed my Zoa frag when I first put it in the tank, too.

If he doesn't leave the frogspawn alone (or gets frisky with any of my future corals) he won't be hanging around.

Slakker · #4 07/09/2007, 01:15 AM

Thanks for your post

The frogspawn inflated pretty nicely today and seems to be doing okay. The peppermint shrimp hasn't touched it that I've noticed, so it looks like all is well.

Slakker · #5 07/09/2007, 03:37 PM

Here it is today...looking pretty happy

gusmanda · #6 07/10/2007, 10:03 AM

Are camel shrimps not good with corals? Or what would be the difference between a pep and a camel harrasing the frogspawn?

Slakker · #7 07/10/2007, 11:29 AM

AFAIK camel shrimps are predatory and will feed on corals. My peppermint shrimp seems to just be ridiculous with new additions, and I haven't seen him go at the frogspawn since that first morning.

Slakker · #8 07/10/2007, 03:54 PM

So I caught the peppermint shrimp eating my frogspawn again.

It looks like the tentacles have kind of sucked into the skeleton near one of the edges...it really doesn't look happy.

The shrimp was promptly removed from the tank and thrown into my QT until I can figure out something else to do with him.
Anyone have a hungry Mantis??