Frogspawn dying?? Help!!!

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  1. JBL

    JBL Sea Dragon

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    I check through the threads here and I didn't see anything. Over the past 2 days 1/2 my Frogspawn has looked bad, but I came home to this: [​IMG]

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    He no look good, and I am leaving in the morning for Florida till Tuesday. Anyone have any ideas? The closest thing to him is a feather duster worm:

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    Its a 155 bowfront,

    salinity-1.023
    cal-440
    nitrate-5
    alk-12
    ph-8.0
    Temp-80.2

    Everyone else is doing fine. Even my Fire shrimp and Sally light foots molted over the past week. What can I do or look for? I don't want to come home to e dead Frogspawn and find it killed everything in my tank.
    Thanks in advance fellow 3Reefers!
     
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  3. JBL

    JBL Sea Dragon

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    Anyone? I've got 1.5 hours till the LFS closes if I need something...
     
  4. PharmrJohn

    PharmrJohn The Dude

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    My FS has gone through periods where it does not look so good, and then it bounced right back. To me, it doesn't look so bad (dying I mean....It doesn't look pretty, but not mega stressed). What is your total parameter list? NH4, NO2?
     
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  5. sterling

    sterling Peppermint Shrimp

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    Im not super experienced but i do have a frogspawn, and have had it for about 2 months. Unless you have actually lost part of your frogspawn then i would be worried. It does not IMO look as though its dying, it seems to be affected by an off parameter or something. Has your parameters been stable? e.g. calcium for example and pH? these could be affecting it
     
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  6. Bogie

    Bogie Snowflake Eel

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    Where is your Mag?
    I'd do a 20g water change before you go, just to be sure.
     
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  7. suckafish

    suckafish Montipora Capricornis

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    its looks ok, not the best i have ever seen. Then again I have seen worse too. I think you should be ok
     
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  9. GuitarMan89

    GuitarMan89 Giant Squid

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    I agree, I've seen much worse. When mine died, it released a whole bunch of white thread like material and looked horrible, yours doesn't look too bad.
     
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  10. CaptainNemo

    CaptainNemo Astrea Snail

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    +1 I have the same invert. I have worse water conditions than you do..They can handle this but a water change will help. Check mg as well.

    No need to panic!

    All the best
     
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  11. JBL

    JBL Sea Dragon

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    Thats what one of the two is doing. White threaded things coming from it.

    A part did come off last night, I should have read a little more, I thought it was spreading itself, but I noticed this morning the pirce that came off, was gone.

    I don't see any of the fish screwing with it, I have 3 Perc clowns, none of them hosted it, so that was out. Calc was a little low (390) and nitrate a little high 10) this past weekend, so I did a 25 gal water change (RO/DI).

    +1 to you all for your help and input!
    I am kinda in a panic, I wont be home till Monday at midnight. My brother will be coming over daily to fill the tank, (auto top-off on order), maybe I'll let him judge and keep an eye on it.
     
  12. suckafish

    suckafish Montipora Capricornis

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    [quote/]I am kinda in a panic, I wont be home till Monday at midnight. My brother will be coming over daily to fill the tank, [/quote]

    dont worry it should be ok, as bogie said mabye do a water change to be on the safe side. You think you are in a panic, my buddy had to move so we moved his tank, then a day later he is off to work where he will be out of town for a week, every week for 4 months. and his g/f does not know very much. Long story short i will be doing alot of driving;D