How big in your opinion should a frogspawn be to be considered a show piece?

[STiTCH87]

My frogspawn keeps growing and growing and growing and I got it around May 2010 with only 3 heads at the time, and currently it is the size of a basketball cut in half.

I measured it when it was close to fully "pumped up" if you will, and it was approx. 9x9x6 with some heads branching even further. It's not exactly a perfect sphere.

Just wondering, i'm having a hard time finding pictures of huge frogspawns, or even ones my size aside from a dozen or so. So just wondering what exactly is considered "XL" and "show-piece" as far as this coral goes? I don't plan to frag it anytime soon, so its just going to keep growing even more. It never closes enough for me to accurately count how many heads it has so I have no idea but the heads it does have are much larger each than the heads i''ve seen on others too. It's like a weird shape and branch type than what i'm accustomed to.

 

[JayM]

A showpiece in a nano would get lost in a 210. It's all about scale. Frogspawn is a pretty generic LPS, so to an SPS snob, it is a weed, and would never be a show piece.

FWIW, I plan on a big piece in my new tank, already growing out in one of my holding tanks...if the new tank ever gets here in one piece.

 

[pallobi]

imo, i agree with Jay... its a matter of scale... in a smaller tank like 3' or less, i would say the size of a softball, maybe a little bigger... in a large tank like a 180 plus, i would say a soccer ball to basketball size... but who really knows i guess... placement, imo, would have alot to do with it to... a good visual level and placement does alot, regardless of size...

 

[STiTCH87]

well mines in a 30g and touches both the front, back, and right glass and extends leftward 9 inches. So it looks rather large for a 30g. I gotta get a picture up on here. JW really. And I certainly have to agree of it being a generic LPS. Its like the birdsnest of LPS or GSP/Xenia of softies I know. Just trying to decide if I wanna sell it already for a nice elegance coral or not. Well keeping a frag for my clowns ofcourse. Or whether I should keep the whole thing and try and make room elsewhere in the tank. I'm running out of room for new corals is essentially my issue and I have no bedroom space for a larger tank so im trying to see what corals I want to part with and which I want to keep judged on how wanted certain corals I have would be.

 

[JayM]

personally, I'd rather keep less frogspawn, and add some diversity if space is becoming an issue. With 10sq feet to aquascape coming up, space is not going to be a problem for me for a while

 

[jfourn83]

I love having a big coral in the tank and build around that 1 peice.....just get it to the size u want and then frag it

 

[afboundguy]

I'd also echo the size depends on the size of a tank...

I would clasify this as a show piece but at the same time it's a boring tank and it's almost too big...

[youtube]sOwut9cSwMU[/youtube]

 

[Killarsox]

You beat me to it Dave, I was just getting ready to post that video. HUGE!

 

[afboundguy]

You beat me to it Dave, I was just getting ready to post that video. HUGE!

That video was the first thing I thought of when I saw this thread lol...