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So my frogspawn hasn't been looking that great lately. 2 of the heads fell off the branch. it seems to be doing ok without it its on a little rock still expanding. The other frog happened to fall off the rock and got caught in my condy....ouch. its been there for a a while i gather and it looks like someone took a flame to it...i seperated the froghead and the condy. the condy is open but a bit burnt looking. should i keep it and see if it survives?
 
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I've been going through this myself for the last 4 months or so. I've had health heads all of a sudden start to up root from the stalk and over 2 - 3 days fall off. The fallen head would actually be fine, well at least the ones that didn't fall into the rocks. I would lose 1 or 2 heads from a colony but the remaining colony would be fine, as would other colonies of frogspawn and hammers. Everything would then by fine and then all of a sudden a couple more heads would fall off. This was happening with all different colonies, some near colonies where it happen before others far away.

What also was happening was that the babies, that were growing under the head, start to get bigger and bigger. Some are actually almost full size now.

During this period my levels have been very good, nitrates went up a little which is most likely from some of the head dying, but all the other corals, inverts, fish and clams were fine.

There really isn't much I could find about this outside of it possibly being a-sexually reproduction. Either way I've lost a lot of heads but have even more babies growing in their place.
 

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well actually. i fragged off some branches and they have been doing fine until now. i do see a bunch of new ones growing out of the mother branch. so what happened to your heads that fell off?
 

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update.. the condy is looking way better. thing now is i have these 2 little frogspawn heads in a little gated part in the tank cause they move around...what do i do with that???
 

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This happened to me a long time back and IIRC I was told to just take them out if there is no skeleton. The danger of them floating around the tank is too great as they will likely burn/kill anything they land on. Sorry :(
 

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