Fragging a frogspawn?

[Icefire]

Got a frien with a baseball sized electric green coral.

From what I see, there is like 10x 1" head, but I don't see the skeleton, all the heads have skin.

Can it be fragged? any video/how to?

 

[sir_dudeguy]

If you cant see any branches, i dont think you've got frogspawn there...but if there are branches, just take a dremel/saw/whatever and cut it where the branches split apart.

 

[Icefire]

Just saw an article.

There are about 1/2-1" branche, The coral is about 4-5" high opened.

 

[savethereef]

no dont risk it they are to close and can kill them both i had a branching hammer about 11 heads i broke off 1 three head and the other two were a 5 and a 3 head. only one die during this but if they are that short just wait till they get a little longer.

 

[sir_dudeguy]

I've broken off a hammer piece that is less than half an inch. Only has like 4 polyps or so. Its very very tiny...i personally wouldnt be worried about it.

 

[Icefire]

It's a hammer finally, they frag the same?

 

[sir_dudeguy]

ya they frag the same. I got both hammers and frogspawn...same basic thing.

 

[Icefire]

I'll ask my friend to irritate it to know the number of head.

I find it weird they are really healthy, 4x36" T8 NO bulb on a 65G high

 

[Chrsnwk]

There is such a thing as a "wall type" hammer and frogspawn that are not easily fragable. Instead of the branching structure normally associated with these corals, the skeleton is more of a continuos "track" of sorts, more akin to an elegance coral. The way to frag such LPS's is to dremmel thru the skeleton from the rear between "mouths" and not break the flesh. Over time the flesh will recede from the point of fracture, and you will have 2 separate colonies.

 

[sir_dudeguy]

There is such a thing as a "wall type" hammer and frogspawn that are not easily fragable

ya...but the one pictured looks pretty branchy to me

 

[Frick-n-Frags]

there is an article in reefkeeper and also a link from that thread on top of first page"frag of the month" that shows technique for fragging a wall coral

the only other thing I would do is add a liquid superglue bandage to the whole exposed cut part of the skeleton to seal it off from the outside.


the branching euphyllias are thee easiest stony corals to frag. You have a big area down lower that can be cut/broken without disrupting any flesh and the skeleton is not solid, so it breaks and dremels easily.