First Coral: Kenya Tree Coral

[Azial]

Was at work today and I was offered a free 6" frag of a beautiful healthy Kenya Tree coral they fraged because it was irritating some montipora that was near it much to the surprise of people taking care of it... Anyway....

I have just the cut frag and am not sure what exactly to do with it. I read up on fragging and placing and I saw two basic methods:

#1. I can super glue the cut base to a rock in the middle to lower section of the tank.

#2. Can use the mushroom technique and fish line it to a rock which I don't have any fish line.

Any suggestions on what to do with it? I have some super glue gell here and it seemed like the easiest way, but I figured I would hedge my bets and ask.

 

[reefnetworth]

a toothpick or straight pin through the edge of it into a piece LR and it will attach itself in about a week. they are supplement/filter feeders, requireing additional supp. or a water change every week. the best thing about them is they like copper. they also grow pretty fast so place it where you wont be having the same problem as your friend did.
JDM...

 

[drummereef]

I usually do the toothpic and rubberband trick to all my softies. Skewer the base of the frag and wrap rubberband around the rock you want to put it on to hold it in place. It should attach itself in a week or so. Remove the toothpic and you are good.

 

[nuckaphobia]

i got a frag of kenya tree myself just a week or so ago... i just took it and wedged it between two pieces of rock, cuz i knew where i wanted it in my tank. it's still there and doing quite well. no pinning, no rubberbands, but no moving it either! (it's stuck to quite a large piece of LR)

 

[reefnetworth]

if your unfamilliar with them, leave plenty of room for them to grow. they grow fast and big!! my first one was about 1" tall when i got it in the box of live rock i had ordered. they threw it in for free. 14 months later it was 10" tall, 8" diameter it became mature and one morning i woke up and had 11 of them on the sand and in other rocks. the next day another 8 of them had (self fraged) after a week i had 26 of them. i transplanted em into an old 25G for 6 weeks. called my LFS and he said bring em in and swap for other corals or store credit. $180.00 was what i recieved from a free Kenya tree, just by takin good care of it for 14 months.
JDM...

 

[kfowler]

Talking Reef has a frag video on mounting soft corals. That may be of some help.

 

[joekr]

I rubberband and it works great as long as you don't wrap it too tight.

Be careful, they can grow like a Xenia plague!