i am currently working on some fragging articles for the ReefReaders section of the site. anyone have any suggestions on corals that they would like to see fragged ?? so far i am shooting for Acropora and Montipora, both plating and branching (using MY techniques, there are a lot of different ways to do these), various mushrooms (including ricordias), toadstool leathers, pagoda cups, zoanthids, and frogspawn. any suggestions will be great. if you have something in your tank that you want to know how to "chop up", post it here or feel free to PM me.
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Yeah!!! I need to find out how to frag encrusting montipora. I see the more surface area it has the faster it grows, and i want to frag it onto a larger piece of rock. Any info would be great!
i have found that when fragging an encrusting montipora, such as supermans, that it is easiest and less stressful to the animal to just chisel off a piece of the rock that it is currently encrusted onto, and mount that rock to another rock of your choice. or use a razor blade and slice off a small piece of the rock with the monti on it.
that being said, you could always just lean a portion of the monti against the rock you want it to encrust onto and let it happen naturally. i prefer this method, but the two options in number one also works well for me if i need them fast. i think i will add this to my "articles to be done" folder for reefreaders.com. it will be cool to actually see this technique on a video clip.
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Thats does sound like a good method; with the placement of another rock by it's side, I'd like to try that out. It might even be really neat to set up a digital camera, (and/or mark the spots so you can use it in the meantime) to create a scene to playback over a month's time to monitor it's growth. Well you might need more than a month's time to notice a difference, but you get what i mean. That has the potential to be an awsome vid, and very informative.
I was wondering if there is a way to seperate individual zoanthid polyps. Any info would be appreciated! God bless!
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there is an article i just did on zoanthid fragging coming very soon to a back issue (June issue) of reefreaders. as soon as carmiejo gets it added i will post it here.
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RIP Sarracino Ciro 12/16/04 - 4/3/08
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That has the potential to be an awsome vid, and very informative.