Lockhartia
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I've been doing a little research but there's not a whole heck of a lot out there, so I was curious if anyone has ever worked up the nerve to frag an elegance coral?
I have an Indo Elegance that I have had for close to 7 years. It is massive, and I mean massive. The skeleton alone is about 6-7" across and has sort of fanned out (so it's really much bigger). When this thing is open, it's probably 18" long (in both directions), and it has completely taken over my tank. Upgrading is just not in the cards for me at the moment, and no one locally could take a beast of this size. I have lost corals and clams to it!
Other methods of containment have failed. I have a MP40 almost pointed at it, it doesn't care. I have built a sort of retaining wall around it, but it's climbing up over it and stinging anything on the other side. I even got a clownfish in hopes it would host in the elegance. The clownfish is smart enough not to go anywhere near it.
It drops frags for me regularly now, but not enough to put a dent in the size, so my next option is fragging it, but I'm terrified. The way the skeleton is shaped I would be able to go right through the middle which would have the smallest cut through the polyp itself. I heard people were slicing the polyp with a knife, then cutting the skele with a tile saw?
My idea was: could I tie a piece of fishing line around the polyp and skeleton where I would make the cut, and keep tightening it little by little until the polyp is separated to become two? Would this work? I don't want to tear or emacerate the polyp and leave it open to infection.
I need to do something before I lose my entire tank to this monster! Thank you for any tips/tricks/advice you may have!
I have an Indo Elegance that I have had for close to 7 years. It is massive, and I mean massive. The skeleton alone is about 6-7" across and has sort of fanned out (so it's really much bigger). When this thing is open, it's probably 18" long (in both directions), and it has completely taken over my tank. Upgrading is just not in the cards for me at the moment, and no one locally could take a beast of this size. I have lost corals and clams to it!
Other methods of containment have failed. I have a MP40 almost pointed at it, it doesn't care. I have built a sort of retaining wall around it, but it's climbing up over it and stinging anything on the other side. I even got a clownfish in hopes it would host in the elegance. The clownfish is smart enough not to go anywhere near it.
It drops frags for me regularly now, but not enough to put a dent in the size, so my next option is fragging it, but I'm terrified. The way the skeleton is shaped I would be able to go right through the middle which would have the smallest cut through the polyp itself. I heard people were slicing the polyp with a knife, then cutting the skele with a tile saw?
My idea was: could I tie a piece of fishing line around the polyp and skeleton where I would make the cut, and keep tightening it little by little until the polyp is separated to become two? Would this work? I don't want to tear or emacerate the polyp and leave it open to infection.
I need to do something before I lose my entire tank to this monster! Thank you for any tips/tricks/advice you may have!
