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05-25-2005, 01:02 AM
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| | Plankton
Join Date: May 2005
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 |  Leather Coral too big
I have a Leather Coral which is doing so well it's grown huge and is very nearly about to grow out of the water soon.
Can anyone tell me how to cut and frag it. | 
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05-28-2005, 06:23 AM
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| | Whip-Lash Squid
Join Date: May 2004 Location: PhillySuburbs, Pennsylvania Age: 42
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| Re: Leather Coral too big
Bump....anyone? How does one frag a Colt Coral?  _________  I Love My Sig By John Hawkins!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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05-28-2005, 07:42 AM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Los Angeles, California Age: 20
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| Re: Leather Coral too big
um, well ive fraged a kenya tree coral...i just cut a brance off and rubberbanded it to a rock, they r pretty resilient  _________ Tank Specs:
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06-07-2005, 08:54 AM
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| | Plankton
Join Date: May 2005
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| Re: Leather Coral too big
Colt Coral it's not (I'm a brit) and leather coral is a soft coral with a large plate like single head - mine's about 10" accross | |
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06-07-2005, 09:00 AM
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| | Coral Banded Shrimp
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Illinois Age: 30
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| Re: Leather Coral too big
Isn't there different varieties of leather corals? I myself have a toadstool leather coral and it has a staulk with a canopy of polyps. I have heard you can just cut a piece from the canopy part and either glue it or secure it with a rubberband and it will connect itself to the rock and grow again.
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90 gallon reef, mag 1800 main return pump, 10 gallon refugium + 10 gallon sump, CPR overflows, ASM G-1 skimmer, icecap 660 vho 440 watts. 130#LR and 60#LS. Corals: Finger Leather, Fat Finger Leather, Toadstool, flower pot sps coral, hairy mushrooms. Fish: Yellow tang, Bi-color angel, pecula clowns, royal gramma, coral beauty angel, yellow tail damsel, blue damsel, Sergeant Major Damsel. Misc. hermit crabs, snails, flame scallop, Xenia | |
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06-07-2005, 10:08 AM
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| | Gigas Clam
Join Date: Aug 2004
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| Re: Leather Coral too big
What I do is take a tooth pic and whittle it flat in the middle. Then cut a piece off the coral and stick it with the toothpic. Then I put the new frag on a piece of rock and line up the frag so that the fresh cut side is contacting the rock the best I can then I take some elastic thread ( available in the wifes sewing drawer or at the fabric store) and make loose wraps around each end ot the toothpick attatching it to the rock. Be carefull not to make it too tight you dont want to smash the coral. This is why I prefer the elastic thread as opposed to the rubber bands. You have more control over the tention and the coral seems to fare better. I have fragged probably 10 or 15 this way ant it works good. When I get home from work I will post some pics of the fragged corals with the toothpics still in place.
Jay
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06-07-2005, 01:57 PM
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| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Tualatin, Oregon
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| Re: Leather Coral too big
I agree with Matt. I also suggest some latex gloves (without powder) for the proceedure. Glasses are also good if available. You don't want any of that stuff in your eye.
Aaron
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55 Gallon Attemped Reef - 20 Gallon Sump - 250 Watt MH - True Perc, Yellow Tang, Purple Chromis, Snails, Hermits, Sally Lightfoot, Green BTA, Colt, Xenia, Flower Pot, Green Star Polups, Assorted Mushrooms, Maxima Clam, Still Hooked... | |
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06-09-2005, 01:49 AM
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| | Plankton
Join Date: May 2005
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| Re: Leather Coral too big
Thanks for the info guys, when i can pluck uo the courage i'll have a go | |
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06-09-2005, 03:41 AM
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| | Coral Banded Shrimp
Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: East Taunton, MA,Massachusetts
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| Re: Leather Coral too big
When I was at MACNA last year I went to a fragging workshop. It was so cool! We did a leather coral that was huge. The facilitator just cut it up with an exacto knife into smaller pieces. Here I was thinking this thing shouldn't even be out of the water and here we had it on a cutting board.  We all got to frag a piece of it by pretty much the same method that Jay described. Mine is doing quite well! I really thought that corals were a little more fragile. It really gave me a good heads up on fragging. One thing I didn't like was the smell of some of them when you cut them....especially xenia  _________   | |
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