Frogspawn Help !

I have a frogspawn 4 head colony, it was doing great Ive had it for 2 months, all levels are perfect,

Yesterday one of the heads retracted then today it is dying and falling apart, clearly dead or dying.

Anything I can do to help the remaining heads ?

Thanks

 

Please google Brown Jelly Disease.

An image always helps.

Have you added anything different, supplements, carbon, changed bulbs?

 

Does it seem to have white stringy stuff coming off the dying head?

 

The head was completly dead this morning

I removed the branch

The others look OK for now

Anything i should do ?

 

If you see any brown jelly ie. necrotic tissue, you can use airline tubing to siphon off the dead/necrotic tissue and give the coral a bath with an Iodine solution like TM Pro Coral Cure or similar product. The iodine will act as an antiseptic and hopefully kill prevent the spread of the tissue necrosis.

 

I see you've had it 2 months. It is possible it took it two months to finally give into soemthing it didn't like - IME with frogspawn, hammer, etc. is that if the flow is to intense or not random enough they eventually start losing heads.

I'd check your flow as well as the other suggestions.

Actual test results would be helpful.

 

test results as in levels

DKH 9

PH 8.1 - 8.4

Cal 490 ( i know its high )

Nitrates 0

Nitrites 0

Ammonia 0

Sal 0.25

I have 2 MP10s on reef crest mode, the turnover in my tank is really high. flow is great and it varies due to the MP10s.

 

that *might* be your issue. try protecting it from the flow a bit. Won't help w/the heads you already lost though. these are not high flow corals.

good luck
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It seems like that may be the problem to me too. When I got my frogspawn I had it in a moderate flow and it HATED it. I lowered the flow and made it more sparatic/random (as in not flowing in one direction constantly. You can achieve this with 2 powerheads and making their flow clash in a certain way) and my frogspawn perked right up, opened huge and started splitting like crazy. I started with 3 heads and now 2 months later have 6 with a 7th in the making.