Frogspawn not eating....

[Modo]

I just did a search and didn't find much along these lines. Or missed it....please help.

I traded for a nice branching Frogspawn at my LFS. It is actually a captive propogated frag from another local. I have had it in my system for about 2 weeks now.

It inflates good and is overall healthy looking except it will not take any food. I am concerned and have tried mysis, brine, krill, squid and silversides. The polyps won't even try and capture any of the food. I have called my LFS and they do not know what the guy fed his if at all.

So, is this something that should be of concern? Is there some food source that I am missing and should try? Does this coral not eat large particles of food?

 

[Anonymous]

Hi Modo,

Your frogspawn does not require feeding. I've had one for well over a year and had good growth rates. This was with 6 watts/gallon of lighting. I have occassionally added things like Marine Snow and other items but do not believe that you need to do anything other than maintain good lighting, calcium, alkalinty, and good water quality in general. IMHO.

Mine have fragged mine several times and returned the frags to the lfs for credit

. I would have to say that this is a fast growing coral.

Good luck

Louey

 

[DEADFISH1]

I have to turn all the pumps off when feeding mine, I stick a Mysis shrimp right on top of it's mouth, he's real slow about eating it, sometimes it will sit there on his mouth for a minute or so before he starts, he's gone a couple of weeks without me feeding before with no known ill effects.

hope that helps.

 

[Anonymous]

I've had mine 6-8 months and have never fed it. I've tried, but he doesn't want anything. He's gotten quite large and looks great. I have a 75 g tank with 4 96 watt PC's and he's about halfway up the tank.

 

[hectina]

The branching corals in my tank don't eat large food particles. The ones that i own have tiny mouths. Only the large mouth corals eat food particles in my tank. Try phytoplankton.

 

[hectina]

The branching corals in my tank don't eat large food particles. The ones that i own have tiny mouths. Only the large mouth corals eat food particles in my tank. Try phytoplankton.

 

[hectina]

The branching corals in my tank don't eat large food particles. The ones that i own have tiny mouths. Only the large mouth corals eat food particles in my tank. Try phytoplankton.

 

[esmithiii]

I have a Euphilia paradivisa and it eats like a pig. I take a small, pea sized piece of raw shrimp and us chopsticks to drop it right on top of the mouth of each polyp. The tentacles of the polyp will slowly contract and usually later when my sea swirl gently blows towards the coral causing the tentacles to sway I can see the mouth ingesting the piece of shrimp.

Feeding accelerates growth, IME. You have to get the piece of food close enough to the mouth to get it to eat.

Ernie

 

[cyberpanther]

I have a multi colored tentacle hybrid frogspawn for over a year and have not fed it anything other than DT's Phytoplankton and good lighting. It has grown 4 additional heads and is the most beautiful frogspawn I have ever seen.

 

[Anonymous]

I'm sorry, hectina. Could you repeat that please?

 

[Modo]

With all the different opinions and experiences that I got here and from searches I posted the same question to Eric B. over on Reefcentral. This is a link to the discussion.

http://www.reefcentral.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&postid=514228#post514228

Looks like the addition of phytoplankton does not directly benefit Euphylia. But who knows, it probably does in an indirect way by the means of the food chain. Maybe something like phyto>bacteria>pods>coral ???