any advice on fragging birdsnest?

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  1. MTREEFER

    MTREEFER Plankton

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    My budy wanted to go in half on a large pink birdsnest. Any advice on fragging it ? I knowthey are very fragile. I was trying to find out if anyone has done it and if they were succ.
     
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  2. geekdafied

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    use some kind of cutters to clip whatever size pieces you want and glue them to frag disks or other rocks or whatever with superglue gel.
    Green Polyp (fragged like 3 days ago)
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    Blue Polyp Purple Base (fragged a couple weeks ago)
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  3. inwall75

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    They take to fragging very well. I can turn a one foot birdsnest into 3000 frags in an hour with some sidecutters and some superglue.
     
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    +1 on that! They're pretty sturdy for sps. The only problem Iver ever had with birdsnest is I bought frag from guy Smyrna (about an hour from me), and by the time I got it home, it had totally freaked out and released its zooxanthellae (bleached). It was almost hot pink when I bought it. It never did fully recover.
     
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  5. MTREEFER

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    awsome thanks! those are really good looking pieces. you wouldnt be interested in any pink birdsnest frags would you?
     
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    is it the hot pink kind? I noticed you're in the boro.... Its not coming from Smyrna is it??? haha
     
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  7. MTREEFER

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    what kind of tank position would you recomend for the frags, low or high current?
     
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    moderate to high. but it really depends on what kind of flow... I also use hang on frag racks made out of eggcrate. It makes it a lot easier to take macro shots of frags and corals cause I can get the camera like 2-3 inches from the coral.
     
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  9. MTREEFER

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    no idea just ordered it today. ill get some pics up asap. and no its not outa smyrna haha. r u selling those frags?
     
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  10. geekdafied

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    nah Im growing those out. I might have some ready when the frag swap rolls around, but thats 4 months from now.
     
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