Frogspawn issue

The Kahnasaur · Apr 7, 2017

I have a Branching Splatter Frogspawn that is releasing full heads while at the same time budding 20+ "babies" along its entire 6" skeleton. It has dropped 6 full heads over the last 3 weeks, each in under 24 hours. The released heads even open up somewhat for the next couple days until my pet bristle worms unfortunately devour them.

The "colony" has been broken into 4 branches all about 14" under a quad T5 with ATI bulbs. There are 11 remaining full size heads, and 3 "teenanger" heads that started as buds. My doser keeps all parameters very stable (unchanged for 2+ yrs).

I've never seen a Euphyllia bud from what I would have assumed was dead skeleton, like 90% of the buds are. 2 questions: Has anyone experienced a branching Frog bud all across its "dead" skeleton? Would it be intentionally dropping heads as an attempt to reproduce?

Zack K · Apr 7, 2017

The Kahnasaur said:
I have a Branching Splatter Frogspawn that is releasing full heads while at the same time budding 20+ "babies" along its entire 6" skeleton. It has dropped 6 full heads over the last 3 weeks, each in under 24 hours. The released heads even open up somewhat for the next couple days until my pet bristle worms unfortunately devour them.

The "colony" has been broken into 4 branches all about 14" under a quad T5 with ATI bulbs. There are 11 remaining full size heads, and 3 "teenanger" heads that started as buds. My doser keeps all parameters very stable (unchanged for 2+ yrs).

I've never seen a Euphyllia bud from what I would have assumed was dead skeleton, like 90% of the buds are. 2 questions: Has anyone experienced a branching Frog bud all across its "dead" skeleton? Would it be intentionally dropping heads as an attempt to reproduce?

They are known to regrow if the skeleton is left untouched yes. As for the polyps, it sounds like polyp bailout which would mean their is something they don't like. But that doesn't sound like the case. Let's see what #reefsquad has to say