To frag or not to frag...

[lclark209]

So a fellow reefer on my reef club forum broke down his tank because of DSB issue. He stirred up the sand too much upgrading and everything was dying in his tank. He was selling all his stock and starting over. Anyway...I picked up About 12-15 heads of...well I didn't know at the time. They were all closed and very unhappy. I picked them up on 4/15 and now they're very much open and gaining quite a bit of color. Turns out one is a hammer and the other is a frogspawn.

However there is one head pointed almost straight down and his tentacles don't look so great. Do we think they've had enough recovery time to be fragged? I'm not very experienced at fragging corals but since this is a branching forgspawn, I think I can just use the dremel to separate the branches. Any input is very much appreciated.

And of course there are pics...

When I first brought them home.
The froggie

And the hammer

About a week later

About 10 minutes ago

And the funky head

 

[IamTomm]

They are easy to cut just be sure their isn't any flesh on the stems ya cut. Could use a dremel or clippers. I would cut them now instead of waiting, as long as your not cutting flesh its not really stressful.

 

[y0ung0ne]

yeah fragging them with a dremel is easy.

 

[Cptn Spaulding]

Garden sheers work great on those, cut between the heads, like you would a tree branch, and cut down from the heads to the base to eliminate any strange breaks that might occur. As stated before, just don't bother the flesh.

 

[pledosophy]

IME they extend out with time. I would not frag yet IMO.

 

[SDguy]

They look super healthy to me. I wouldn't do anything to them.

 

[smogl00]

if you are going to cut, best to do it sooner rather than later. I regret not pulling the trigger sooner on a couple of euphyllia that I likely won't see again because I have saved other by doing it