Yellow Fiji Leather Getting Huge

[kattsue]

I have a yellow fiji leather that has grown to about 6 or 7 inches when fully open. How big do they grow? If it keeps getting bigger it's going to take over the whole front of my tank?

 

[kingfisher62]

Maybe it is time to frag. Any pics!

 

[kattsue]

I'll try with my phone.

 

[Urchinhead]

From experience they get much bigger than that. I had one over 12" that I ended up having to pass on to someone with a much larger tank. Another option is to frag it. But take care to use sterile instruments to do so and give both the frag and the mother colony dips in iodine and keep them in clean water with good indirect flow to keep infection from setting in.

 

[kattsue]

Pics - hopefully I did it right.

 

[kingfisher62]

Wow! That is a nice one. I am sort of in the same situation with my Tyree toadstool. It is starting to get big and is encroaching on other coral's territory. I keep toying with the idea of fragging it but I do not want to screw up a good thing!
My clown seems to like it also.

 

[shifty51008]

mine was the same, never fragged it and the clowns loved it. although easy to frag still made me nervous.

then again alot of my fish like the leathers and clowns liked about every coral lol.

 

[kingfisher62]

Now thats huge!

 

[GauteG]

This is from my 500 liter ~ 130 gallon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR-2hMJw7uY

 

[kingfisher62]

Those are some beautiful leathers!

 

[sampster5000]

Very nice leathers. I am thinking these are my favorite kinds of coral. Wish I could find some now!

 

[60G]

Hi,her is mine :fun2:

 

[gh0st]

I love Fiji Yellows, especially big ones.

Let him grow, says I, see how big the Sumo leather can get!

 

[iLLwiLL]

Pics - hopefully I did it right.

Is that a big dark blue damsel? I had one eat every polyp off a HUGE toadstool, took it 4-5 months to recover. left about everything else in the tank alone, including the 3 fiji yellows. Just a heads up.

~Will.

 

[RealReef7]

thats a nice fiji yellow, IME they grow slower then other leathers.

 

[Puffer_Man]

I want a yellow fuji. I went to the fish store and they wanted $75 for a 2 inches.

 

[somethingphishy]

miss my yfl...loved the bright yellow color...a great coral that get large fast imo

 

[Cod Fish]

Looks like a nice one! Mine was that size and it was getting too big so I cut half off with some scissors and gave the piece to my friend. Took a couple days but it was back to normal. Just a bit smaller.

 

[SawdustInTank]

This is from my 500 liter ~ 130 gallon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR-2hMJw7uY

That far left Toadstool is incredible. I like it. What are those hanging bags from the top of the tank? Carbon? Thanks.