Octopspawn Tissue Not Hardening

[fresco194]

I have a Octospawn that has split in 3 but the stems have remained as white tissue and not hardening for at least 2 months. I would like to frag it but obviously I can't yet. Is this normal? I have torches, frogspawn and hammers who split just fine with stems ready for fragging. My PO4 is 0 but I've been dosing NeoPhos everyday waiting to get a detectable reading. Any suggestions is appreciated.

Cal: 449
Alk: 8.8
Mag: 1650
NO3: 2
PO4:0
Sal: 1.027

 

[KrisReef]

That looks normal to me. The skeleton under the white flesh should be calcified and hardened same as the original frag. As they get older, they sometimes retract flesh with age so the hard skeleton is exposed but that's not necessarily a sign of health. I think your's is healthy and that's why thd soft flesh is surrounding the hard skeleton. It wants to grow into a massive colony, not a bunch of one headed solo fragments with exposed skeleton where the shipworms can bore into it.

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

I have a Octospawn that has split in 3 but the stems have remained as white tissue and not hardening for at least 2 months. I would like to frag it but obviously I can't yet. Is this normal? I have torches, frogspawn and hammers who split just fine with stems ready for fragging. My PO4 is 0 but I've been dosing NeoPhos everyday waiting to get a detectable reading. Any suggestions is appreciated.

Cal: 449
Alk: 8.8
Mag: 1650
NO3: 2
PO4:0
Sal: 1.027

What you are describing as "hardening" is tissue recession... Healthy flesh on the stem is white and is a very good thing. When tissue starts to recede, then there's something slowly killing your coral.