FRAGING star polyps

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  1. REDMANS CUBE

    REDMANS CUBE Fire Shrimp

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    i want to frag some of my star polyps. i have never fraged n e thing before. i dont want to remove the rock to frag. can i just rip some off while its in the tank. can i use shells to attach the pieces to?
     
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    Rawdogz Torch Coral

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  4. REDMANS CUBE

    REDMANS CUBE Fire Shrimp

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    what would be easier the frag. the star polyps or hairy muchrooms? the mushroows i could remove from the tank. whats the most frags you could get from a large mushroom? and how quickly would the frags attach and grow and start looking like a mushroom again?
     

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  5. {Nano}Reefer

    {Nano}Reefer Dragon Wrasse

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    dont know much about the mushrooms but the GSP you can just rip those suckers right off the rock, they literally are just like underwater weeds.... as for the toadstool, i have heard of people cutting the "tops" off and then it will regrow, but i dont know if thats true or not.
     
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  6. PharmrJohn

    PharmrJohn The Dude

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    Wow, GSP fragging seems like something I could do rather easily. Neat-o.
     
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  7. gazog

    gazog Kole Tang

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    Easier. green star, but why would you want to! Fragging hairy mushrooms is not that hard, you just don't want to make the pieces to small on those. It seems to me like the hairy one don't do as good as the smooth ones do. last time I fraged one only 2 out of the 6 or so lived. But the smooth green one all lived and there were some pieces way less than a 1/4".
     
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  8. MTips18

    MTips18 Purple Spiny Lobster

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    gsp grow like weeds and you can just cut them and they will grow try cutting no less then a square inch so you can monitor the growth
     
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