Fragged Pagoda coral yesterday

[mal]

billv has an awsome pagoda coral. We fragged a piece off of it yesterday and cut on some mushrooms. I put the pagoda in my tank last night and today all the polyps were wide open! Seems to be doing well. The 'shrooms are doing well to, except it's tought to get them glued down. Several have floated off to unknown parts of the tank.
I also added my 4th ph to the tank yesterday. I put it down at the bottom behind a huge rock. Can't even see it and it's moving a ton of water from the bottom. I love this hobby, there is always something to do, learn or try.

 

[kelly]

mal,
Congratulations, I hope that the pagoda coral does well. For the mushrooms, you could try using some netting/mesh, or tole from a fabric shop (I think this is what my wife told me it is) to wrap around the rock to hold the mushrooms in place until they attach.
I have not tried propogation as of yet, but I hope to start in the next few weeks. I am looking at doing some mushrooms, and a gorgonian.
This afternoon I am going to the Cleveland area to pick up some coral frags from a person who propogates them at his home. I hope to find a Home Depot that carries southdown sand also. All the local home depots here do not carry it.

 

[tidy waves]

Mal,
How did you frag the Pagoda? That is very impressive. I've been propogating soft corals for sometime now, but I've never tried any hard corals. Let me know!

 

[q]

When using the net method I have heard it can take 10 days to have the shroom reattach. You can take the netting and put it over the rock and use a rubber band on the back side to hold the excess together so some preasure remains on the shroom. After 10 days or so you can remove the netting and the shroom should have attached itself to the rock.

 

[mal]

Tidy Waves,
We found a smaller part of the pagoda that had not formed a "cup" yet, it looked like a "C". Then we used a hacksaw to cut around it where there was not growth. You can actually cut through the coral if you want, make it as large as you want, but the piece we cut was from the back side where you can't tell we cut it. We've done mushrooms, star polyps and toadstools too, this was the first stoney coral we've tried. (If a pagoda is considered an stoney coral) We have traded most between ourselves. I never thought of using a cloth mesh to tie those guys down, but I will next time. I have a huge colt coral that I am considering trying to cut, but I haven't found good info on doing it yet. There is really good info at the Geothermal Aquaculture Research Foundation. Organization web site. Hint Hint They publish how to do your own cuttings on the site. You just have to navigate the site a bit to find the info. I'm also trying to find ways to do this to other corals, hammers, and elegance etc.
[ October 04, 2001: Message edited by: mal ]

 

[tidy waves]

Mal,
I've cut a few colt corals. I just used a new razor blade and made sure my hands were very clean. I cut a branch off (the bigger the better) at a steep angle and attached the cut part against a piece of frag rock with a rubber band. Make sure the rubber band is not too tight, because it will cut right through the coral.
Good Luck!

 

[billyv]

Mal, this guy who fragged his Pagoda for you sounds like a good friend. I hope you hooked him up with something cool from your Reef tank. I'll thank you to get right on that. I'd hate to think that a Blue Powder Tang is taking advantage of a Red Coris Wrasse.

 

[ironreef]

LSP need to bud befroe you can prop them. probally not elegance,open brain but frogspawn, anchor branching types of lsp are easy(ier).

 

[mal]

Ironreef,
What do you mean wait until they "bud?" Have you fragged elegance and others? How did you do it, and how did it turn out?