Frogspawn help!!!

[elgordoinavw]

ok the frogspawn has two heads one look fine, tentacles extended, the other head seems to look brown and the tentacles are just kind of hanging down (like a dying flower) i use b-ionic, coralvite, reef solutions, life cycle bio plankton.

it sit about two inches from the surface, under 2x96 watt pc, flow is medium to light. any help appreciated.

is it like brown jelly?

[elgordoinavw]

it's not like brown jelly covering it, it's like the tentacles are dying and turnng brown almost like a internal thing

[manderson0805]

Hmm....I've had LPS close up for a day or so, but eventually they always come back out....don't know what to tell you, but Id be thinking about getting rid of that head

[elgordoinavw]

well i think i know what the prob is my sailfin tang was caught "red finned" picking at the tentacles. for that sailfin "i order you to 10 left handed pimp reef slaps and 2 biat*chhhh be good slaps" well if that is not enough you here by stand expelled from the tank and forced to live in the sump.

[ReefDave]

Elgordo......Is the Sailfin ONLY nipping at that head? or is it doing it to both? I imagine if its only that head the the sailfin is a "reaction" not the "cuase" of the problem. Many tangs will nip at corals when they are "sliming" or expelling zoo or a handful of other reasons. If it is only nipping at this one, I would say its because the head is injured, not the other way around.

Is the "bad head" shadded by the other? I had this happen with one of mine. Had two beautiful heads...but the one higher up in the tank started to shade the lower...as the "upper" head grew more and more, the lower grew less and less. Eventually it did what you are describing. I used a hack saw to cut the branches and moved the "bad" head to another spot. it recovered in full, and was actually way larger than I had expected when it recovered. I ended up trading that head in at the LFS as they wree both plain brown FS, and had long sweepers, didn't really want two of em in the tank.

FWIW

Dave