Frogspawn possibly needs help.

HB AL · Apr 2, 2018

I have an sps dominated system but have a hammer colony, candy cane colony and frogspawn colony. All corals are doing great except possibly the frogspawn. I bought it as two heads around 1.5 years ago and now has around 8 live heads and 2 that are dead. It's always been really blown up to a size of a larger than a softball and had to tilt the Duncan colony next to it off to the right when I noticed it was stingy and killing Duncan heads as they always touched when both were fully inflated. Now for the last few months the frogspawn does not inflate like it used to where you can see the individual heads and occasionally stays pretty shrunk up for a day or so. It has been in this bottom location from day one. I don't spot feed my corals and have been thinking if this guy needs to be directly fed some fish food cause maybe it's just not getting enough food. Just hoping someone with a lot of experience with frogspawn has some good info on what I could try to get it back to its original large inflated form. I've included some pics from a moment ago along with a full tank shot for reference.

Tahoe61 · Apr 3, 2018

Is flow restricted in that area by a ton of beautiful corals and clams?

HB AL · Apr 3, 2018

There is what I would consider a good amount of flow in that area for a frogspawn, it's not getting blasted and not stale. It took quite of bit of tinkering with the 4 powerheads (tons of flow for the other corals) to get it so it wouldn't get blasted thus I've never moved it. Only thing I could figure from reading articles was to try and feed it directly on occasion, maybe it wasn't getting enough food overtime thus the heads are constantly somewhat retracted compared to the first year it was in there. I realize something is causing it to not open to its full potential. I'm gonna try and spot feed it today but it's gonna be tough to keep my fish from stealing the food unless it swallows it quickly, I'm gonna have to keep my hand next to it to assure all food isn't stolen, but aside from a couple the rest of my fish are not afraid of me.