how to frag a blasto wellsi

[TurtleSoup2]

i have a colony of blasto wellsi with about 14 heads, i want to frag a few of the smaller heads that grew on the under side of the rock. can i just use a cheap single edge blade?

 

[TurtleSoup2]

anyone?

 

[Thisseemsfishy]

I would use a dremel. Some people use a wet saw, but for a smaller blasto I would go the dremel route with a diamond blade. You will need to cut the skeleton running down beside polyp.

 

[PR_Reefers]

a single blade would probably won't work that efficiently... you will need to take at least a bit of the skeleton underneath the polyp like mentioned above to have a good survival rate. I also use dremel with diamond tip and be sure to rinse coral several times during cutting to prevent the heat generated by the friction to burn the polyps.

 

[TurtleSoup2]

sry for the late reply, but my grandpa let me borrow his inland wet saw!!! i will be cutting it this saturday and will post a update

 

[RotaryGeek]

I tried using a razor blade to frag one, and it died. I would only use a dremel or bandsaw of some kind to take out the rock under it as well as the frag. They have a lousy survival rate if you cut them up.

 

[Kappapibeta]

Will one of those bone cutter scissors work?

 

[Nvizn]

Dremel would be your best bet.

 

[TurtleSoup2]

i have another question, so after i cut the coral what should i do?? should I dip it in somthing like coral revive? or should i put it back in the tank??

 

[TurtleSoup2]

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