Is my frogspawn coral dead?

[PTXReef]

I did the same, but I used live rock from my LFS. In hindsight, I wish I did dry rock and then did what @PTXReef did with a turbo start. Getting live rock is cool because you get all of the critters at once, live rock sucks because you get all of the critters you dont want at once.... I let my tank go for 2 months with live rock, then added a small amount of CUC since there was algae growing. I'd also feed the CUC if needed.

I started with live sand and dry rock and added my clean up crew once my sand bed was covered in diatoms. Once I saw green algae and some coralline algae start to grow, they were great indicators to start adding corals (make sure to test first!) The coralline came from a blue-legged hermit's shell

 

[coralenthusiast]

Thank you for sharing your experiences, this is very helpful!

 

[PTXReef]

Thank you for sharing your experiences, this is very helpful!

Thanks for posting and asking!

 

[MohrReefs]

Thank you for sharing your experiences, this is very helpful!

Were you able to take the coral back?