...I go in to rescue a stupid snail who's gotten upside down in an impossible nook of the foliosa, and then decide to help my urchin out with some caulerpa removal [bane of my tank] and ---bang! I frag off a stick of digitata. Well, I start gluing that. But in the meanwhile my friend is helping me hold the piece while the glue sets, and I decide to frag off the branch that's encroaching on the caulestra. Got another branch, not the one I'd meant, and then the whole colony breaks loose and starts to fall. Grabbed it, dropping all else, and trying to get it back in, break a neighboring digitata arm off, on yet another specimen.
Gathering up all the bits, we now have a candelabrum of a frag, bits leaning together, on a rock that wasn't ideally shaped for the purpose, but it's what I had. Sigh.
Boy, that stuff breaks if you breathe on it! I wonder what percentage of montipora digitata frags wandering the trade were intentional.
Gathering up all the bits, we now have a candelabrum of a frag, bits leaning together, on a rock that wasn't ideally shaped for the purpose, but it's what I had. Sigh.
Boy, that stuff breaks if you breathe on it! I wonder what percentage of montipora digitata frags wandering the trade were intentional.
. My wife who never touches the tank, also decided to clean the glass for some reason. She hit the rock my beautiful german blue polyp is mounted to and it was enough to push it into another rock. So this is the second time I have had to put the thing back togeather.
