Last fragging question!

[appaloosa1]

Tonight I was going to try and frag my xenia and a mushroom. Will either of these release toxins that could kill my fish? Should I remove them from the tank for the night after fragging and put them in another container?
Thanks

 

[speg]

They are gonna release stuff into the tank.. this is why you wanna frag outside of the tank. If you have a small tank then you wanna do it outside even more so.

 

[viper_930]

They won't harm your fish, but they might start sliming a lot. As Speg said, it's best to frag them out of your main tank.
I just grab a bowl with some tank water, but the corals to be fragged in there, cut them up, and leave them in the bowl for a few more minutes. Then I just glue/net/rubber band the new frags to rocks and put them back in the tank.

 

[appaloosa1]

I did it and I think they cut pretty clean except for the mushroom that had a large base and was hard to get off the rock. I got most of it off though, just a little bit still left on the rock. I have them in a a small container right now and will leave them in there for a whilejust to be safe, they have a battery powered pump in there too with them. I have carbon running in the main tank (24g) so hopefully that will take care of any nastiness that may occur. I also had to knock off a brain (randomly grew from a skelton I could have sworn was dead) from a zoa rock since they were taking over. I tdon't thin we hurt the flech of the coral though. Should I be ok to have this in my main tank?