The Curious
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Hey all. I just finished up a couple mushroom propagation projects, so I figured I'd share my experience and some pics. I cut a very large rhodactus mushroom, that was attached to 2 small rocks, in half, I also cut a green striped, a metallic blue, a hairy green, and several spotted red mushroom polyps off of my live rock. I then cut each polyp into 8 pieces, carefully making sure to include a portion of the coral's mouth in each cutting. Then I simply placed most of the cuttings on live rock, wrapped the lr in pantyhose, and slowly, so the cuttings don't get jostled around, placed the lr back in my main tank. I had a couple cuttings where the mouth was not cut from the rock, so I basically got a donut cutting, with no mouth, which I then cut into smaller clippings. I then put a thin layer of crushed coral in the bottom of a floating breeder box and placed the clippings
Now it is a waiting game. I did notice that thicker mushrooms, the green striped and the metallic blue specifically, reacted much better, and are attaching and reforming at an incredibly fast rate, compared to the thinner sp. of mushroom corals. Next project is gonna be cutting a couple Ricordia and a green tipped hairy mushroom.
I'll post pics in a couple weeks when the pantyhose come off...that sounded a lil raunchy...but if anyone has any other mushroom fragging ideas/techniques, or wants to post their own frag project experiences...please do.
Now it is a waiting game. I did notice that thicker mushrooms, the green striped and the metallic blue specifically, reacted much better, and are attaching and reforming at an incredibly fast rate, compared to the thinner sp. of mushroom corals. Next project is gonna be cutting a couple Ricordia and a green tipped hairy mushroom.
I'll post pics in a couple weeks when the pantyhose come off...that sounded a lil raunchy...but if anyone has any other mushroom fragging ideas/techniques, or wants to post their own frag project experiences...please do.
