toadstool coral propagation and fragging

[scubacane]

I have a toadstool that has two stalks and rather large tops that appear to be getting larger by the month. Does anyone have any idea how these divide and how I can frag them ? I have had them over a year- they have never spilt , they just keep getting larger.

 

[kingfisher62]

Tagging along!

 

[scadsobees]

search on youtube...I've seen quite a few videos on fragging these and others

I haven't tried it myself, but it sounds like you just chop off peices of the top and band them to some bits of live rock. Sounds like it can put up with a lot!

 

[fragtrader]

i love fragging toadstool. grab a pair of scissors, and mix up some coral dip (lugols or my fav coral rx) and start snipping away. you should be able to dice it up like a pizza. place the cut pieces and the mother in the dip for 5 mins, and then place the mother back in your tank, and the small frags on some substrate or rubble. they will not attach on their own, and dont be surprised if this takes a week or so. once they have finished sliming and healing the small frags attached to rubble can be rubberbanded or glued to larger rock or plugs. take pics and have fun. you will get addicted to cutting coral!

 

[125G Reefer]

Leave them in a 5 gallon bucket of your tank water after cutting them up, the toxins will be just oozing out of them. Install carbon in your DT, then throw them in. No fuss no muss. They really are pretty easy to frag as stated above.

 

[livingcorals]

Its in the video, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhf_86twRkg

Worked for me

 

[kingfisher62]

I am really tempted to frag mine now but it is looking so good I would hate to screw it up!

 

[twintrades]

Another thing that works great also is taking a needle from a siringe and sticking it to a chunk of soft LR. (test the Lr first) easy as plop it on and stick it to it. Set them in a low flow area for a few days. Works great for other lethres as well.

 

[kingfisher62]

Well, I just fragged one of mine. I turned it over on a towel and cut around the stalk so i had a donut. put the base back in the tank . cut the "donut" into 4 pieces and and elastic banded them to rubble. Less than 24 hours the base and frags are showing some polyp extension. It was easier than I thought.

 

[spanishmack]

my 15cm(6in) sinularia i just used to cut the entire head off, then attach it to a piece of rock, 8 weeks later i would sell it. unfortunately it would brown out my acro in the process as i didnt remove it from the small nano it was in

you can chop it up into many many pieces and it will grow back, hardy. you can imagine how quick it would need to grow to stay alive in the ocean with predators around eating it

 

[Misled]

You don't need much. They will also frag themselves for no apparent reason. In the first pic you see where the one on the right came from on the one from the left. The little pieces left on each side formed the tiny ones.

 

[scubacane]

thanks for all the great feedback