Baby Frogspawns

[kaybee]

The mother colony. Normally, the polyps conceal the entire skeleton of this coral as seen here:

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a259/y2kenny19/Saltwater2009/frog2009.jpg

The same colony moments after being disturbed during routine maintenance. The polyps have temporarily retracted (~20min), revealing many smaller frogspawn buds normally hidden by the tentacles of the larger frogspawn heads:
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a259/y2kenny19/Saltwater2009/frogretracted.jpg

A close up of some of the baby frogspawn corals. About 8 or 9 developing frogspawn heads can be seen (with an equivalent quantity existing on the other side of the colony out of view:
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a259/y2kenny19/Saltwater2009/frogbuds.jpg

[Crispy]

Wow! Impressive kaybee! Awesome frogspawn! thumbs2:

[labnjab]

Thats awesome, so far our frogspawn has just only split and hasn't grown and new buds

[Miltonic]

pretty cool and beautiful Frogspawn.

My Hammer coral also has lots of those little buds growing I just wish they grew faster.

[SankTank]

very cool kaybee, id like to eventually get one. about how much did you get the mother colony for?

[kaybee]

I bought it as a $10-12 frag back in June 2007 when the entire coral had the diameter of about a dime (1.8cm), nowhere near being a "colony" back then! Here's a picture of it from about 2yrs ago:

23 August 2007
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a259/y2kenny19/Saltwater2009/23aug2007.jpg

[jman]

love your frogspawns... i like all frogspawns!

[Psst_copher]

are frogspawns tough to keep?

[kaybee]

Under adequate or ideal conditions frogspawn, like most euphyllia species, are quite hardy.