Help, Frogspawn head falling off!!

Patrick2DX · Sep 17, 2011

So my frogspawn doped a head about an hour ago, water tasted fine.. there is some pulsing xennia close by but its been that way for at lest a month.. so what should i do to save it??
here is a pic to help

ToXIc · Sep 17, 2011

Holy xxxx I've never seen that before.

How the flesh looking now? If it's puffy or not looking bad rubber-band it to a plug..

_Alex_ · Sep 17, 2011

i would not rubber band it to anything! they do this when stressed and feeling threatened to try and survive! set it on a rock somewhere in lower flow and medium light and then just leave it alone! make sure your alk, calcium, and mag stay in check and it can/should grow and new skeleton back!

Patrick2DX · Sep 17, 2011

I moved it to my 90 gal, Looks fine for now the polyp is in a plastic cup with rubble rock and the head is close by.. No changes as of now but, Parameters are all in check and i will keep up to date on if to see if it makes it.

Tab28 · Sep 17, 2011

I did not know they could do that. Mine are are aggressive to anything near them. And generally win. I had a freind whose just world not open as much but his water perimeters were all in check. So that only one thing left to check was the salinity and it turned out that is what it was. I like the color contrast of yours. I don't think I saw one with such a rich brown. I normally see that as a lighter brown or almost clear. But against that bright green tips great coloring.

droberts · Sep 19, 2011

did you do a large water change or have you had a alk swing or cal swing as this will cause polyp bail out

Phaquer · Sep 19, 2011

Just set it in a PVC cupling so it can't blow around and wait it out

evolved · Sep 21, 2011

It was kind of alluded to already, but this event is known as: "polyp bailout" and will only happen when a coral is severely stressed. Something was/is off with your water parameters for it to happen.

keokea · Sep 21, 2011

This exact thing happened to me 2 days ago, the other heads look fine still, I threw the head away though fearing a nitrate spike

I wanna know why it suddenly happened also