I got it home and it started opening up the minute I put it in the tank. Thanks again Chris, it looks awesome!!
Mine too!!! Thanks a lot. I will try to get my Pavona broken up once I get a couple more lobes on it.
Chris you made my week too! I am very pleased to have this in my tank, I hope it does well so that I can share it with others too. Thanks again.
I know it has been a while since this was started after the Feb meeting, but I figured I would post a pic of my frag of frogspawn
It really is great that we are all getting to the point where we can start sharing frags and have them do so well. I think that our success with alot of corals is really magnified when we can get frags from other members that have proven to do well in captivity. This particular frogspawn just took a turn for the worst in my tank after about two years of growth and rather than watch it slowly die over the next year I decided to frag it out and I am so happy that I did. This is the second coral that I have done this way with great success. We will all encounter that some corals do better in our systems than others and while other species of this coral do great in my system this particular coral did not. It will be interesting to get a frag from one of the members that took frags in a year or so and see how it does in my system again.
Thank you for the link Joe James you can see them Saturday. They start out looking like a little bubble and then next time you look there are more. I'll see if Jim can get a pic tomorrow tho Beanhead I'll have to go see your pics of your Pavona Casey LOL The clowns are doing really good. They are getting a bit spoiled tho. I haven't named them yet, waiting to see which is going to be the female first.
By the way, the Frogspawn is in our 55Gal display. It is the one with all hte Vermetid snails (tube snails). I would post a better pic of the Pavona, but I don't have a wonderful camera and it is in the back of the display.
I have 4 T5 lights on two timers where one set goes out and then an hour later the other set turns off for night time. When the first set goes off that is my shrimps cue to come search the frogspawn for food. Never fails, first lights go off and here he comes. The frogspawn of course doesn't enjoy this and closes up very quickly. But that is life on the reef. This was all OK in my book until last night. The shrimp did its thing and I am pretty sure it took hold of one of the nodes on the frogspawn, gave a huge yank, and then shoved it in his mouth. I guess this is life on the reef too but now I am looking at that shrimp a little bit cross ways. He had better watch himself as I have a taste for shrimp. Do you guys have a shrimp that harasses corals like this? I do specifically feed him every day, some flake or frozen.
My Skunk Cleaner shrimp isn't afraid to step on anything. He harasses my zoathids more than anything else but all is fair game, especially at feeding time. My CBS leaves the corals alone. My Green Brittle Star gets all over my frogspawn when i feed and gets all the food from the coral. But the Frogspawn keeps growing and growing so I believe all is well.
