Fragging corals

[cjason3041]

I am starting my first reef tank, a nano, and i am unsure about fragging. what is it how do you do it, and why?... i heard if the corals grow too big you have to frag? and how do i put the corals in the tank? i heard something about glue? that can't be right? is it?
thanks for all your help
jason

 

[reckler]

chack out the archive section and you will find a ton of info on this subject.

 

[cjason3041]

anyone else?

 

[thedealer]

Hi my name is Rusty and by no means im no expert. but i frag my corals all the time i have a toadstool bigger than a basketball. about every 6mo i just trim around the edges with a neww rasor blade. i cut them into small piecesabout 2in and i use super glue, and glue them to a small piese of marble. Any thing else let me know if i can help.

 

[dueces]

I just fragged my first coral last week and it was easy. My zoos and Green Star polyps got to big for the rock they were on so i trimmed them and Super glued them to a small piece of rock. it isn't as hard as it sounds.
Take the coral in question out of the water and cut off a small piece then pat it dry and put Super glue gel on the coral and the rock. let it set for a few minutes and then put it back in your tank. I am not an expert but it is not hard. You can always post the coral you are looking at fragging and someone will help you.

 

[rabid frog]

the hardest part of frgging your corals is actually getting yourself to do it. Nothing like taking your frogspawn out of your tank and snapping off one of its arms. Or taking a chisel to your plate coral and cutting it up like a pizza.
I just recently fragged my hypnophora. Fragging soft corals does nto seem to as big of a shock to your (being you not the tank) system. Its when your are deling with hard corals it gets harder to make that first plunge.
What everyone said on here is true. Super glue gel has been proven to be reef safe, people on here use it all the time w/o negative impact on theiur systems. However, if you do not feel comfortable using super glue on your corals, they do make a reef safe epoxy. Its works good too. Infact I like it a lot better for securing bigger pieces of coral. Hope this helps,
Joey

 

[reefkprz]

I use superglue gel on just about everything. except mushrooms and slimy soft corals them i pretty much let attach themselves to either sand or a piece of rubble then glue that where I want it. if I have a larger piece of say for instance frogspawn and I dont think superglue will hold it I go to homedept and get "Recta seal". it can drive your skimmer a little crazy but it works and is 1/4 the price of the reefsafe epoxy same thing different package your paying extra for the package to tell you something lots of people already know, that rectaseal is reefsafe.