reef_dart21
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i have a huge brain coral i NEED to frag but do not nko if it frags on it own or does it need help????? plz ne help would be apriciated
fragging a brain????
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paintballer768
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I could be mistaken, but brains are LPS corals, which mean that they have a hard skeleton. The normal way of cutting through a calcerous skeleton is with a tile saw or dremel, yet I would recommend never taking something like that to a coral in fear of like completely destroying it.
reef_dart21
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so your practically telling me just to leave it grow?
paintballer768
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Well I was kind of hoping someone who knew more about LPS corals to comment on it, but Im not sure how big it is. If its in the "I need it smaller" range like you said, then I might suggest working out something with the LFS. Like a trade of sorts, but lets wait for more responses to do much. How often do you feed it? (Curious because this often governs growth rates).
scottminot
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I use a dremel to score halfway through the brain and then hammer & chisel it apart. I just fragged a 8" diameter favites brain two weeks ago. You're not gonna kill the coral. You're obviously going to damage some of it but it will heal up quick. I should have taken pictures of the frag process.
ric maniac
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When I fragged my brain coral, I just used a very sharp manual saw, with a TINY balade. Then I sawed it down a bit through the middle, and set it in a bucket to slime out. Then I took a paint scraper, and used a hammer to break the score I had made. And finally I let it slime out for an hour, before putting it in the dt.
reef_dart21
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Originally Posted by ric maniac
http:///forum/post/2457730
When I fragged my brain coral, I just used a very sharp manual saw, with a TINY balade. Then I sawed it down a bit through the middle, and set it in a bucket to slime out. Then I took a paint scraper, and used a hammer to break the score I had made. And finally I let it slime out for an hour, before putting it in the dt.
u sound like a serial killer of brain coral
http:///forum/post/2457730
When I fragged my brain coral, I just used a very sharp manual saw, with a TINY balade. Then I sawed it down a bit through the middle, and set it in a bucket to slime out. Then I took a paint scraper, and used a hammer to break the score I had made. And finally I let it slime out for an hour, before putting it in the dt.
u sound like a serial killer of brain coral
kidreef
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Originally Posted by ric maniac
http:///forum/post/2457730
When I fragged my brain coral, I just used a very sharp manual saw, with a TINY balade. Then I sawed it down a bit through the middle, and set it in a bucket to slime out. Then I took a paint scraper, and used a hammer to break the score I had made. And finally I let it slime out for an hour, before putting it in the dt.
wat kind of brain?
http:///forum/post/2457730
When I fragged my brain coral, I just used a very sharp manual saw, with a TINY balade. Then I sawed it down a bit through the middle, and set it in a bucket to slime out. Then I took a paint scraper, and used a hammer to break the score I had made. And finally I let it slime out for an hour, before putting it in the dt.
wat kind of brain?
ric maniac
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Welsophylia.
ric maniac
Active Member
Lol, corals are a lot tougher than you would think.
meemmoo
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Originally Posted by T316
http:///forum/post/2459174
It must be the name "brain" that's causing so much hesitation. Fragging never stopped anyone from "breaking, snapping, cutting" of any other type of coral, so what's so different here?
Once you frag an anemone I think a brain is a "no brainer" no pun intended.
http:///forum/post/2459174
Once you frag an anemone I think a brain is a "no brainer" no pun intended.
reef_dart21
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WELL my pineapple brain is doing fine ^_^ but it did ozze for awhile O_O but its not dead and its been a whole hour so ya
