Frogspawn

[conz]

Hi im fairly new to salt water tanks and i recently bought a frogspawn and it isnt doing so well. In the picture i have posted you can clearly see it is not opend up all of the way. Where do you think would be the best spot in my tank to place it?


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[54seaweed]

hard to tell it all depends on lighting flow things like that , mine seem to do well towards the bottom but my lighting is also kind of strong along with my flow levels
no 2 tanks are alike so it just needs to be moved around till you find that sweet spot

 

[mr_X]

What are your current parameters? It might not be in a bad spot, but not liking something about your water quality. What lighting are you using? What size tank is this?

 

[conz]

I believe i have 4 24inch T5HO lights and it is a 34 gallon solana. Thank you for the replys!


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[mr_X]

A tang isn't going to do very well in a 34 gallon tank for very long, but were you able to test your water? I would check the basics (ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate, and alkalinity) for starters.

 

[conz]

I plan on giving him away to a friend with a much much larger tank once he grows. Nitrates 80, nitrites 0,ph 7.5, carbonates 80.


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[mr_X]

The low ph and the super high nitrates are what's making it unhappy. I would be doing some water changes to lower nitrate and increase water movement at the surface to raise ph.

 

[54seaweed]

with any coral you want to keep your nitrates as close to zero as you can
I didn't even notice the poor tang
how the nitrates that high aren't effecting the fish is surprising
you defiantly need to do a bunch of large water changes to get those levels back into the safe zone
if your frog spawn is left in those levels I wouldn't be surprised if it started to recede it's flesh or even blow it's heads off
do you only have the 1 power head if so I would invest in a second as soon as you can
good luck as you have some work ahead of you
weekly water-changes along with maintenance could have prevented this problem
salt water needs attention almost always

 

[mrmacks]

Is that a pineapple???


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[alyxandria]

Is that a pineapple???


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I think that's where sponge bob lives. Lol