Help! Frogspawn wilted immediately after target feeding

hopperjl16 · Feb 7, 2017

So I've never target fed before, but I wanted to get some better growth so figured I would try. I bought Coral Frenzy, used tank water to mix up a small amount, turned off all water movement and dusted each if my desired corals a few times. Within minutes my frogspawn wilted like crazy....like all the fluid just went out of it. I've never seen it look like that. After a couple minutes it retracted, and now it's starting to look a little more normal....though still pretty retracted. What did I do wrong?

AllSignsPointToFish · Feb 7, 2017

hopperjl16 said:
So I've never target fed before, but I wanted to get some better growth so figured I would try. I bought Coral Frenzy, used tank water to mix up a small amount, turned off all water movement and dusted each if my desired corals a few times. Within minutes my frogspawn wilted like crazy....like all the fluid just went out of it. I've never seen it look like that. After a couple minutes it retracted, and now it's starting to look a little more normal....though still pretty retracted. What did I do wrong?

Probably nothing. The coral is most likely not used to target feedings and overate :) My bubble coral did this the first time I target fed krill. He inhaled the piece only to spit it back out a few minutes later. Now, he doesn't let ANY food get away!

themcnertney · Feb 7, 2017

IMO its not necessary to feed frogspawn. I think what you witnessed was the coral expelling waste. Pretty typically.
FYI, I don't feed any of my coral.

hopperjl16 · Feb 7, 2017

AllSignsPointToFish said:
Probably nothing. The coral is most likely not used to target feedings and overate :) My bubble coral did this the first time I target fed krill. He inhaled the piece only to spit it back out a few minutes later. Now, he doesn't let ANY food get away!

Ok good! I'm sure I fed it too much too....didn't really have any idea how much to give it.

hopperjl16 · Feb 7, 2017

Dan McNertney said:
IMO its not necessary to feed frogspawn. I think what you witnessed was the coral expelling waste. Pretty typically.
FYI, I don't feed any of my coral.

I know, I've just had this frogspawn for a year with not a lot of growth....so I thought I'd try feeding it here and there. Glad to have a couple reasonable reasons for the shriveling though.