Fragging favia?!

[Shnabbles]

Ok iv posted here a couple times about this favia that has slowly been loosing tissue... People have said to dip it or frag off the infected parts.

I dont have any means of getting a dip here any time soon so im considering fragging before it looses more tissue and then looks absolutely horrible.

I was going to use a drummel with a cutting wheel.

Should i cut through "ok" flesh in front of the infected areas?

Also this coral has 2 different species/color patterns of favia on it.

The one color is having much more recessing corals then the other color... should i seperate the to colors/species? Or leave them as 1 and just cut off around the edges?

If i cut off the dead polyps will the coral eventually regrow into a tapered edge or will the place i cut always be a straight line of skeleteon (sorry alittle difficult to explain)

 

[aSixyReef]

separate the different colonies. they will 'fight' over space and food.

you can cut through live tissue, just try to make the cuts between the polyps so the healing process isnt so long.

faviids grow in a "encrusting" type of manner so whereveer you cut the flesh they should grow new polyps along it's line.

HTH

 

[firefishbrain]

I would personally do both, jsut to be on the safe side...

 

[Shnabbles]

bump any more info?

Does anyone else feel i should separate these 2 species?

 

[Justin74]

I do. They are showing different tolerences to the same environment, sounds like they'd do better if they parted company. I agree, cut the edge of the healthy tissue as an attempt to barracade the recession. And ya unless you putt the frag flush with some other substrate it will travel down the new cut in an encrusting motion.

-Justin