FrogSpawn anyone?

[SitBackAndWatch]

Hey guys Just wanted to show off my new frogspawn.
Anyone else have any pictures of theirs?

[awestruck]

Beautiful--congrats.!

[drummereef]

Great frogspawn. Hopefully I'll be getting mine this week.

[tslabaugh]

I love frogspawns! I just picked up a single headed one with green tips. Here is a pic of my 3 headed pink tipped one:

[xxpipedreamxx]

[JGermanow]

Here's mine under actinics




and close up under 20k

[tslabaugh]

Here is a pic of my new one:

[Ti]

good stuff

[chinaman4u]

My first coral, when I got it it was as small as the bottom one, it grew(4yrs) and then I broke it into the two pieces.

[drummereef]

You know you could sell that for a fortune, right?

[chinaman4u]

Thank you drummer. But Its a common, not so rare, froggy. I've had that baby since the beginning, I wouldn't sell it for the world! Got a little to big for my 75 though, now it's in my 120. The shrimp, which is very big, makes my froggy looks small though, it's huge if u see it in person. I once saw a pic here on RC that fills a whole tank!

[chinaman4u]

Originally posted by JB NY
I brought it back to the store. It was huge and I needed the room. It had been fragged many times but still I counted about 74 heads when I brought it to the LFS. Only had 5 when I bought it.

Hope this inspires some of you, keep that water dirty, they grow faster! LOL

[Ti]

NICE!

[euphoricgear]

keep the water dirty? what do you mean?

[goulashriot]

that thing is HUGE, wow.

ti - love the avatar btw.

[ReefArtist]

Here's mine - I purchased it in November and now it has 4 babies starting:


This is a photo when I first received it at the beginning of Nov 2006:


This is a photo at the end of Dec 2006 - babies!


This is a close-up - I just love these!

[JHerfkens]

Heres mine. I have it in a 26 Bow Front with a 175W 10K MH and its doing great. I am starting to see some more heads form too, so far about 5 frogspawns are by far my favorite corals.

[chinaman4u]

Reef artist- I have had babies, too!

Originally posted by chinaman4u


I took baby shots of frogspawn buds(approx Jan 05), cut them off a mounted them.
Now, almost two years later...

Euphoric - Frogspawn favors less than ideal conditions, lower/med flow and lots of suspended food. I only put cyclopeeze in my tanks, once evry two weeks. However they will visibly grow if you target feed blended shrimp about once a month(anymore, and I think the food would be polluting your tank) I target feed using a syringe and airline about 2-5ml, so it isn't a lot at all.

Frogspawn is my favorite coral, as well.

[ReefArtist]

chinaman4u, thanks for the feeding information. When you fragged yours how old were the heads? I have some smaller heads on a Torch (19 heads in all) and some of the lower ones seem discolored - larger ones getting all the light. Do you think I should just cut them now?

[euphoricgear]

chinaman4u -- thanks for the info. what do you mean by blended shrimp? the shrimp you buy at the store and put them in a blender? til how much crushed do they have to be? how much of that do a feed? can i freeze the rest?

thanks

[chinaman4u]

reef- i fragged my babies when they were less than 1/8". I don't know if fragging would be beneficial. I have not conducted a study comparing a fragged baby and one left on the main colony.

euphoric- supermarket bought is better, but I use frozen cubes from pet store for convenience. Frozen cubes have been known to contain phosphates. I take a frozen shrimp cube and shave off a piece, mix with aquarium water and squirt mixture into frogspawn. I have seen frogspawn take in large pieces, the only problem is fish usually steal the larger pieces. Freezing the rest is fine.

[euphoricgear]

question...how do you frag them?> any pix?

[euphoricgear]

oh yeah got this from the lfs.. called zoplan from the lfs. its states to feed this daily for the frogspawns.

do you guys this it might be too much? is it ok to feed this to hammers too?

thanks

[thecichlidpleco]

When first purchased, how long until your frogs got fully extended? Been almost a week for mine and he still seems shy.

[Turnermnk]

Here is mine. Has @ 18 heads and great extension.