Tips on keeping frogspawn euphyllia

Tips on keeping frogspawn euphyllia

Postby Rena » Sun Apr 18, 2010 8:31 am

I want a frogspawn euphyllia my friend has one and im jealous whats the know how on making sure these things are healthy?
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Re: Tips on keeping frogspawn euphyllia

Postby FloridaCoralimorph » Sun Apr 18, 2010 8:43 pm

Very easy tolerant of higher nutrient water hardy as mushroom corals if given the right place in a salt water tank preferable in the lower flow area as for flow will rip the tips of the delicate fingers or tentacles if you will of the frogspawn. Frogspawns can hand out quite a sting to you and other corals so make sure that their are no other corals touching or relatively close to its tentacles.
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Re: Tips on keeping frogspawn euphyllia

Postby Tommygun » Mon Apr 19, 2010 4:22 am

I love euphyllia corals and have always had a breeze of a time when it comes to keeping and growing them within my tank. I have had this colony for a year and it does fine even with my lazy water changing habits. They will also do well in strong light just take your time to acclimate them to the stronger forms of light.
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Re: Tips on keeping frogspawn euphyllia

Postby sharkysreef » Tue Apr 20, 2010 11:16 pm

From a business point of view euphyllia corals sell great dince they are quite hardy and entertaining to most of the people that buy them. Euphyllias from a business point of view are getting quite expensive do dont be surprised if the next time you go to your LFS they are more expensive than you remember.

Easy, beginner corals for any tank euphyllia corals are super easy watch for goo that accumulates on dying or sick heads.
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Re: Tips on keeping frogspawn euphyllia

Postby SanFranciscoGiant » Thu Apr 22, 2010 5:26 am

Cool image it almost looks like a mirror reflecting the two frogspawn colonies, I had to stare at if for a while and realized their was 2 colonies and 2 blue damsels. Like everyone is saying frogspawn colonies are super friendly to higher nitrate tanks and will do fine in almost any lighting. I have mine under oldschool VHOs and they are happy as can be.
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Re: Tips on keeping frogspawn euphyllia

Postby Lenny1973 » Sat Apr 24, 2010 7:21 am

Mine is placed similarly to the picture above in a lower light low flow and does fine especially since I neglect water changes like no other. Well hey my tank runs fine and I probably do a 5 gallon water change on my 55 gallon only when the water evaporation forces me too which is about once every 2 months.
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Re: Tips on keeping frogspawn euphyllia

Postby TheQualeTomas » Tue Apr 27, 2010 5:06 am

When I told my girlfriend I was in the market to by a frogspawn coral she was excited to have salt water frog in our reef :lol:
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Re: Tips on keeping frogspawn euphyllia

Postby GregtheSPShead » Thu Apr 29, 2010 7:41 pm

Watch when it comes to any type of euphyllia coral be careful when placing them next to corals because they have stingers or "sweapers". These sweepers can damage other corals so from my experience place your frogspawn, torches, hammer and euphyllias at least two times the distance away from your SPS or soft corals. The only corals that seem ok to touch are other euphyllia corals.
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Re: Tips on keeping frogspawn euphyllia

Postby CoralPIMP » Wed Jul 28, 2010 4:57 pm

Why are euphyllia corals so cool,,, i mean for the amount of time effort and energy to keep them nice and fat and vibrant these corals are king. I am even thinking of tossing away my SPS tank and focusing on collecting many rare and other types of torch corals and frogspawns. Rare Australian torchs seem to be the most prevalent in stores although I would like to do a 210 filled with a variety of euphyllia corals.
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