Fragging St Thomas

[jfinneyi]

My rock of st Thomas is getting out of hand and looks like they are running out of room. How would you recommend fragging it?? Just take a razor to the bottom of them?? Wanna frag so i can trade them or sell them.

 

[JR's Reef]

Best way is to cut away a small peice of rock under the foot. If you cut them with a razor you will not be able to mount them to anything.

 

[Tomoko Schum]

Forgive me for my ignorance, but what is St Thomas?

Tomoko

 

[sculdermut]

Rhodactis sanctithomae, better known as the St. Thomas bubble mushroom

 

[Tomoko Schum]

Thank you.

I used to have a very beautiful pink specimen of Discosoma sanctithomae (Caribbean bubble mushroom) with irridecent blue tint.

It moved a few inches and left a few babies behind through petal laceration. It used to show the draw string pouch like feeding response. I never tried to frag it before trading it for a pink frogspawn. I suspect that it can be cut through the mouth like any mushrooms.

Tomoko

 

[jfinneyi]

Whats the best way to cut apart part of the rock. If someone is willing to come frag this rock for me Id be willing to let them have a piece.

 

[sculdermut]

Where are you located?

 

[Tomoko Schum]

If your rock is big, you can use a tile/ceramic cutting saw. I'd probably use just a hammer and a chisel. A small rock can be cut with a pair of utility scissors or strong pruner.

You can also just slice the mushroom cap off the base. The cap will attach itself to rock rubbles just by laying it on top of the rubbles. The tissue that remains on the rock will probably regenerate or produce a few new caps. Some people sink a shallow glass jar into the sand bed and fill the jar half way up with rock rubbles to corral the mushroom caps so they won't float around on the sand bed.

Tomoko

 

[gflat65]

Yeah. What Tomoko said. If softer rock (like Fiji, etc.), you can probably chip away at it with a good bone cutter. I try to get rock at the foot where possible, just beacuse it is easier to attach. If you don't get rock (slice from rock), if you can drop it in a low flow area with some larger grain coral rubble, it'll attach to something you can then glue down pretty easily.