Frogspawn

[Brad Coughlan]

recently I've been having some trouble with alkalinity and it is now fixed, but I was a bit concerned about this frogspawn since one of the heads when it is open or closed has more skeleton on the top showing than the other head. Basically it looks like the tenticles are in a ring formation around the mouth area but cover the mouth area sometimes. Any feedback will be appreaciated

 

[blaxsun]

Can't really see much in the image.

 

[Brad Coughlan]

Can't really see much in the image.

This is the exposed skelton when the coral is not open with lights off

 

[blaxsun]

This is the exposed skelton when the coral is not open with lights off

You mean at the base...?

 

[Brad Coughlan]

You mean at the base...?

the mouth area and the tentacles are surrounding it

 

[paragrouper]

When the lights are on does it fully extend?

I assume there was a shift in ALK when you fixed it. How much of a shift was there and how fast did it change? Your Frog may be a bit ticked at the change.

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

its still hard to see clearly in that pic. To me, it sort of looks like a bubble, if its a bubble, its a good thing. But if its not a bubble, then I don't know what we are talking about. "Exposed coral skeleton" is normally pointy and jagged, I don't see that in the pic

 

[kevgib67]

Ya, I just see a bubble also. My hammers and frogspawn often get a bubble when they are starting to split.

 

[Brad Coughlan]

When the lights are on does it fully extend?

I assume there was a shift in ALK when you fixed it. How much of a shift was there and how fast did it change? Your Frog may be a bit ticked at the change.

Well last week when the lights were on it fully opened, currently today even with the lights on I still can see the mouth area fully exposed whilst the tentacles surround that area. It was like this before the alkalinity change, but the alkalinity shifted by about 0.5 - 1DKH yesterday

 

[Brad Coughlan]

Ya, I just see a bubble also. My hammers and frogspawn often get a bubble when they are starting to split.

Oh right, so when they split is that how they form new heads? This is nothing to worry about?

 

[Brad Coughlan]

its still hard to see clearly in that pic. To me, it sort of looks like a bubble, if its a bubble, its a good thing. But if its not a bubble, then I don't know what we are talking about. "Exposed coral skeleton" is normally pointy and jagged, I don't see that in the pic

Yeah appologies for the bad pics

This is the top down view of that particular head, the other head seems fine.

 

[kevgib67]

Oh right, so when they split is that how they form new heads? This is nothing to worry about?

I don’t know the reason for the bubble, I can only speculate it could be stretching and or creating more flesh for the two new heads. Don’t be worried if it doesn’t look real happy as it is splitting, normal.

 

[Brad Coughlan]

I don’t know the reason for the bubble, I can only speculate it could be stretching and or creating more flesh for the two new heads. Don’t be worried if it doesn’t look real happy as it is splitting, normal.

Ah right ok thanks,
I have seen some other threads and people with this bubble have theirs split after, so I hope that is the cause.