tiny frags

[phenom5]

Is there a limit to how small you can make frags with success?

I was cleaning my glass, and I "cut" a couple of new frag. Both are really small, but I figured what the heck, and mounted them on plugs.

 

[vegita51]

I did a polyp frag of my red planet once and it actually survived

 

[SDguy]

Can it be too small?

For the purpose of making frags to sell/trade/give away - yes.

Just by accident, that you keep in your tank until larger....no. I've had literally a sheen of flesh...not a single actual polyp, develop into a colony.

 

[phenom5]

Cool...good to know.

:thumbsup:

 

[mutateddogbone]

if you frag it, they will grow

 

[buy_baff]

Yep it will grow but the smaller they are the slower they grow.

 

[mike_cmu04]

I have also had some tiny pieces of coral that have grown from next to nothing

 

[d0ughb0y]

micro frags. that's what I find sometimes from sellers selling $10 corals with no wysiwyg picture.

 

[commonstranger]

It has been my experience that if you cut small pieces sometimes it will actually help the coral grow quicker for a while. I do it with some of mine sometimes. If I was cutting to sale them they would be atleast 1" if not a lil bigger but for what your talking about glue it down and hope for the best.

 

[clowns101]

Tyree sells some pretty small ones with success.I agree,if they are for sale,cut them larger,like acropora fagments.But when I cut my montis,I cut them half inch or so,montis grow so fast,and encrust so fast,no reason you cut cut them smaller and make them look better at the same time.

 

[JSeymour]

Can it be too small?

For the purpose of making frags to sell/trade/give away - yes.

Just by accident, that you keep in your tank until larger....no. I've had literally a sheen of flesh...not a single actual polyp, develop into a colony.

Had a plating monti that I shipped in RTN and after about a week I could see the slightest touch of flesh in an otherwise barren area. It's been about two months, it's about the size of a pencil eraser with four polyps. Two weeks ago, while moving some acros for an Interceptor treatment, I broke a "recently" super glued staghorn frag off and a single corallite remained on the glue. Broke the chunk of glue off and treated with the rest. It has now begun encrusting on the chunk of glue, easily doubling it's surface area.