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Post by Pokahpolice on May 30, 2014 18:42:30 GMT -5
I bought an Octopus Euphyllia yesterday. It's friggin' gorgeous but I can't find a lot of info on this particular species. I was told they are harder to keep then a regular Frogspawn. Anyone have any experience?
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Post by ryansweatt2004 on May 30, 2014 20:21:42 GMT -5
Pics? Most euphyllia corals have the same requirements and are just as easy to care for as the next. The main difference is when fragging is concerned. Two types of skeletons are what can make them easy or difficult. If it's a branching type "paradivisa" then they are simple to frag individual polyps off by cutting through dead skeleton. If they are the wall type "divisa" then they have to be fragged by cutting through the colony, skeleton and coral flesh which risks bacterial infection and tissue necrosis.
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Post by Pokahpolice on May 30, 2014 20:54:55 GMT -5
It's a branching which doesn't line up with the info I have been able to find. It looks like a regular frogspawn but I've never seen one with this magnificent coloring . Here are a few pics from my cell. They suck...   |
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Post by ryansweatt2004 on May 30, 2014 21:02:20 GMT -5
Yup, one of the second most common frogspawns out there. Next to the purple tip green frogspawn, It's identical to the green in my bicolor frogspawns. Still very nice!
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Post by jasonandsarah on May 30, 2014 21:08:52 GMT -5
What's the octopus frog spawn supposed to look like? Is that the one that just looks like a bunch of frog eggs in a really tight bunch? I want one of those!
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Post by Pokahpolice on May 30, 2014 21:10:32 GMT -5
No it's not a typical green frogspawn. I've been around a while and seen THOUSANDS of frogspawns...this one is not the same.
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Post by Pokahpolice on May 30, 2014 21:16:06 GMT -5
What's the octopus frog spawn supposed to look like? Is that the one that just looks like a bunch of frog eggs in a really tight bunch? I want one of those! Not sure, I can't find much info on them. I bought this from Jason at Easy and he's the one that told me it was an Octopus. |
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2014 21:28:27 GMT -5
they're called octospawn looks similar to frogspawn just more dots
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Post by gotareef on May 30, 2014 21:41:08 GMT -5
what you have is aussie green tip frogspawn - euphyllia divisa
what your thinking about as "octospawn" is a different species - euphyllia cristata
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Post by Pokahpolice on May 30, 2014 22:29:30 GMT -5
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Post by gotareef on May 31, 2014 0:16:00 GMT -5
nope that is to a big polyp frogspawn, I just lost mine a month ago. they are tan and on each polyp is almost 2" across
yours is defiantly euphyllia cristata or divisa going by just the size of the polyp
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Post by gotareef on May 31, 2014 0:34:01 GMT -5
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Post by ryansweatt2004 on May 31, 2014 7:32:05 GMT -5
No it's not a typical green frogspawn. I've been around a while and seen THOUSANDS of frogspawns...this one is not the same. A few years ago that same color morph of frogspawn was just as common if not more common than the purple tip green frogspawn like gotareef sells. "Divisa" and "paradivisa" commonly called frogspawn corals have the same polyp structure but differing skeletal structures. Long random tentacles with many randomly placed ball tips on each tentacle that stretch out. "Euphyllia yaeyamaensis" is referred to as octospawn for it's resemblance to octopus tentacles. They have thicker polyp tentacles and higher number of shorter ball tips on each tentacle. "Euphyllia cristata" commonly called grape coral has polyp tentacles identical to that of a torch coral with generally no more than one or two ball tips per tentacle but shorter, about the length of most hammer corals stretching 1-2 inches Here's an article that can help identify it a bit. I know of a few more good articles about identifying euphyllia corals as well. I just need to find them. www.advancedaquarist.com/2012/10/coralsI'll dig up some photos and references later to help out. I'm definitely not saying it's not cool because it is. Judging from the photos though it does look like a regular green tipped euphyllia paradivisa. Obviously not the common green with purple tips like everyone sells now. There is a rare color morph though where that intense neon green we see in the ball tips of each tentacle continues though the flesh of each entire polyp. Common name I've seen listed is nuclear or toxic green frogspawn. |
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Post by jasonandsarah on May 31, 2014 7:42:34 GMT -5
That's the kind I want! Do they have a bi-colored frog spawn like that? Probably not. |
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Post by ryansweatt2004 on May 31, 2014 7:59:57 GMT -5
All the ones I've ever seen were solid color. Mostly shades of green to brown, I think I've seen an yellowish orange variant listed on one retailers site but realistically color is an ever changing variable. They could be a bicolored one out there though. Who knows,
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