Frogspawn

[Brad]

Looking for info on how to take care of this coral any info.

[anemoneman]

It likes light and moderate water movement. Feed it small pieces of frozen food. chopped silversides or chopped krill, that type of thing. It is also a filter feeder so you may not have to feed it often. Don't place it near (within inches) of other corals or they will be stung. Frogspwan will send out very long feeder tentacles and sting it's neighbors.

Mark

[Lahatiel]

Out of curiosity: what would be the lighting requirement for a frog spawn?

[anemoneman]

I don't recommend trying to keep corals with NO flourescent. I have good luck with frogspawn under 175W MH. 5W/gal of VHO or PC shlould be adequate too.

[RazerCorals]

I'm having moderate growth with mine under moderate water flow and direct PC lighting about 14 hours a day.

[Pineapple House]

They should do fine under medium amounts of PC's or VHO's, or preferably under halides, with medium currents. Feeding isn't a must, but it's recommended. Likely one will be fine in your tank :)

PH =)

[RazerCorals]

Well it is an LPS corals so it's going to need calcium to help build its skeleton.

[HoopsGuru]

It is a stony coral, so calcium levels should be maintained appropriately. It will thrive in any form of medium lighting from PC, VHO, or metal halide. They are active feeders so high lighting is not as required. Due to the varying conditions of hobbyists' tanks (skimming can remove a large amount of plankton), feeding SHOULD be a requirement...at least once per week and they are not really considered filter feeders like clams or feather dusters. Food should consist of zooplankton or very small pieces of fish, clam, etc. not exceeded 1/4" in size. An easy way to make a nice mash for them is to take the ingredients and use a small hand mixer on it to chop it into small pieces. As others have stated they prefer moderate currents.

These corals have varying degrees of aggression. Among other Euphyllia species, there is relatively no aggression if any at all. However, against other corals they will often extend long sweeper tentacles up to 8" in length to sting any intruding corals.

These corals are not the top of the food chain and are equally susceptable to chemical warfare from other corals. Many leather corals (especially Sinularia sp.), GSP's, mushrooms, and xenia produce toxins that can easily kill Frogspawn and other LPS corals, even if placed on opposite sides of a tank. If you have any of these corals, you should monitor its health closely and have an appropriate place to put them should the need arise.

[phistio]

excellent list of care, hoops!!!

(good to see you)

[Brad]

Thanks for the great info

[HoopsGuru]

Thanks, I would take the chemical warfare part extremely serious. We can't see it happening so we often don't even realize it is. I recently had a leather coral, misidentified, that severely punished a frogspawn, and my other LPS less severely, for being in the same tank (at opposite ends of the tank!) in less than a week. No outward aggression was ever shown.