Fragging a frogspawn side growth.

[MondoBongo]

hey all.

my frogspawn (wall type) has been with me for a while now, and has had a small side growth on the lower portion of his skeleton.

recently i moved him to reorganize my tank a little bit, and decided to give this new growth more light, and it has gone hog wild. nearly tripling in size in the last 3 weeks or so.

you can see him here near the middle of the frame. the bright green growth near the back of the main frogspawn skeleton.

so my question is, if i want to frag this off the main skeleton, how should i go about it? i'm not sure how far down the main polyp goes in to the skeleton, so i don't want to just cut blindly. at the same time, at some point in the future this little guy needs to come off so he can be placed on his own.

any thoughts or suggestions are welcome.

thanks!

:beer:

 

[Bnaum85]

http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2006-11/fotm/index.php

 

[Bigcefa]

Is it just me or does that look like a torch growing out of the side of the frogspawn

 

[MondoBongo]

http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2006-11/fotm/index.php

thank you for the link, but since there are no branches to speak of i'm still not confident hacking blindly in to this thing. it was my first coral, so i want to make sure it gets done right.

Is it just me or does that look like a torch growing out of the side of the frogspawn

it is weird to me how it is a completely different set of colors and totally distinct shape from what it is apparently growing out of. i'll try to get some better close ups at some point, it does look a lot more like a torch than it does a frogspawn.

i'm curious to see as it grows how it will change.

 

[rogersb]

I have fragged my wall frogspawn twice. The first time I chopped it in half with a dremel. Because the skeleton is so thick it got too hot and the one piece died. The second time I took off a 'bud' on the side. The bud opened up 2-3" but was very small at the base and I was able to use my dremel to quickly take the polyp off. They do not go deep, if you get 1/2" that should be enough of the skeleton/rock it's on.

 

[MondoBongo]

Thank you roger!