fragging toadstool?????? anyone have any experience

[omard]

Here is way I did it for a colt...ought to work just as well for your toadstool...

Originally Posted by omard

I have one particular large colt which I would like to frag a couple of pieces off...

However, in past, I have had very little success in fragging this kind of coral, especially small pieces.

It is very slimy and is hard to pin down.

Pieces just want to get up and float away.

Even is small dish with rubble and covered in bridle veil, they don't seem to want to attach to anything.

It is a very pretty animal and I don't want to cut anything off unless I have reasonable assurance of success.

Originally Posted by geekdafied

Get some plastic toothpicks, stab the colt with the toothpick, then wrap a rubber band on to one end of the toothpick, then stick the other end into the sand. The colt will attach to the sand, the rubberband will hold it down. When it attaches to the sand, you can glue the sand to whatever you want.

Tradtional fragging using super glue does not work on colts, they are way to slimey. Ive tried every method I could find, and thats the only one that worked for me. I never tried sewing it down though. Too much time and patience involved in that for me, haha.

Gathered stuff. No plastic toothpicks, but found some thin weedeater line in garage that would work just fine when sharpened on one end. (Just cut diagonally)

Super-glued pieces of sharpened line into holes in coral rubble.






Skewered frags of colt - then secured on with small piece of cut rubber band with little hole in center to served as a "stopper" - to keep frag from floating away.






Returned finished pieces to tank...couple in main, couple in nano. Low flow areas.

Notes:

1. Very, very slippery coral and hard to handle.
2. Stinks.


Worked great!

[aquaboy]

I threw up at the smell of chopped Xenia when i fragged mine......

[amcarrig]

Just take one of the slices and rubberband it to your plug or a piece of rock, whatever you decide. Doesn't matter how you rubberband it so long as the rubberband isn't too tight

[paintball7]

ohk well i just saved the mother colony from my tank to put in my main display hopefully it will do better in this tank.... with the lighting and everything. Right now it seems very stressed i aimed an powerhead jet towards it so it will get air flow on the are wear i cut it.



i will keep you guys informed on whats going on!!!

[amcarrig]

Good luck!

[paintball7]

ohk its been 2 days i believe since i cut the toadstool and moved it to my main tank. whereever i put it and however i stand it up, it keeps slouching over. Does anyone understand why? it looks better then it did though....its just slouching over???? WHY please let me know what you thinks wong with it!!!!!

im going to get a pic today hopefully.

[amcarrig]

Is it the parent colony that's slouched over? If so, I wouldn't worry about it too much. It should perk back up within a week or so. Just keep an eye on it and make sure that there is no rotting tissue anywhere near where you cut it.

[paintball7]

well near where i cut it seems looks like white tissue is growing over the spot, but normally when a coral is dying doesnt it turn white? i know acropora is like that but dont know about any others.

and sorry it wont let me upload photos ??? dont know why?? cant copy and paste them either???? i just dont know ?

[paintball7]

just went and picked it up to observe it !

WHooops my mistake the white looking stuff is not where the cut wound is. where it was cut actualy all around there started to form kinda around another rock. But on the back where the white stuff was.........i didnt know what it was so i started like rubbing it and it felt as if it was salt build up

Could that bee?

[amcarrig]

Not likely salt build up but again, I wouldn't worry about it just yet.

Are you able to load pictures onto Photobucket and maybe post them that way?