Frogspawn placement

Corey Shelk · Sep 19, 2018

I'm looking into getting a frogspawn frag, or a hammer or torch depending on what is available at the time. I'm worried about the flow and the sweepers. I have a few questions, is this flow too much and do the sweepers go down or just put horizontally and vertical? Attached is a picture of where I want to put the frag. It's directly under the filter output (I can move it if it's too much flow) and horizontally and vertically there are no corals. But right beneath them I just got two zoas (literally just got them yesterday and I just placed them in that spot so they are still closed.) and that's where I want to put more zoas eventually. Will the frogspawn/hammer/torch sweepers be able to affect them at that placement? They are about 4inches at an angle away from where the frag would go. Also I've heard about clowns hosting frogspawn and it being detrimental to the corals. Is that likely and if so how can I prevent that? Pic 1 is a front view of where I want it to go and pic 2 is a side view to show where the zoas are placed/will be placed.

James M · Sep 19, 2018

Medium light and medium flow
We can’t really tell if there’s to much flow in those areas because every tank is different

Reefpuck · Sep 19, 2018

I turn 5 T5s and an LED actinic bar on my 90g...all my frogs/hammers/torches are on/near the bottom of the tank. Just depends on the light.

What light you running?

BedrockIOMC · Sep 19, 2018

THat looks like a very new tank. I don't even see any sponges on any of the rock.

C Hawk · Sep 19, 2018

I have placed FS in various lighting and flow conditions. I have been amazed with how adaptable they are. More so with light than flow however. Grown several from small frags to larger than a soft ball in size. I do agree with James M. The optimum is medium flow and light. If you are not getting full expansion, you have to much of one or the other or both. Not a great revelation I am sure :-)

Corey Shelk · Sep 19, 2018

The tank has been set up for about a month now. Here is a pic of the light I run. Also yeah I guess you can't really tell with flow in pictures. What do you qualify as moderate flow and high flow? What about the sweepers? Do they sweep below the coral?

C Hawk · Sep 19, 2018

Frog spawn has no sweeps. But the chemical sting from their polyps are deadly to other coral.
Flow is a judgment call. You want to see a gentle sway back and forth. Not chaotic movement.

James M · Sep 19, 2018

C Hawk said:
Frog spawn has no sweeps. But the chemical sting from their polyps are deadly to other coral.
Flow is a judgment call. You want to see a gentle sway back and forth. Not chaotic movement.

Frogspawns do have sweeper tentacles
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C Hawk · Sep 19, 2018

QUOTE="James M, post: 5144421, member: 104355"]Frogspawns do have sweeper tentacles
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well we must agree to disagree then. I have been keeping FS for several years and I have several very large colonies. They do not have sweepers like a galacia or a chalice. They do have polyps that extend a bit longer than
the others. But I would not call them sweepers. All the polyps on a FS can chemically attack another coral. But what do I know. I just have some the size of large softballs.

BedrockIOMC · Sep 20, 2018

I have my frogspawn up top in the middle of my tank and it lives its up there. It is a BioCube 32 and the lights are not really high in Par but it does get a lot up there. Been growing for months and doing great. It does get about medium flow where he is.