What have you fragged?

reefkprz

reefkprz

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I am just curious as to what different types of corals everyone has successfully fragged. if you want to do a quick blurb on the methods you used that would be great. I think a lot of people would be able to learn a lot, (hopefully I can learn some new tricks too)
I have fragged
mushrooms
cut with razor and rubber-banded to a rock, or place in a dish of sand once they attach to sand glue to rock.
Kenya tree
cut with scissors and set rock on base of cutting attaches itself
many types of zoanthid and Palythoa
use butterknife to lift edge and peel back then cut free with razor dry LR and bottom of polyps with paper towel then use superglue gell to glue them down.
ricordea
same as mushroom
yellow colonial
let encrust onto new rock then seperate
Green star polyp
same as zoanthid
gorgonian
cut section with snips use razor to scrape untill core at base is exposed glue core to rock with supergluegel or mount core with rectaseal.
clams
steam well dip in butter...... oops not the recipie site.

montipora cap
cut with roto zip (or just break a piece off) super glue gel to LR
fungia
(this one scared me) cut in half or quarters with tile saw or rotozip let grow. the thinner the blade the better.
encrusting montipora (no positive ID on this)
cut with tile saw or rotozip.
there are more but I dont want this to run on too long
I do not use any dips or chemichals when fragging. I do my cuts, glue, then once the glue is set rinse in a bucket of tank water. thats it nothing too fancy. and I have a 99% succes rate. (I say 99 because sometimes a frag doesnt get glued down enough and floats away I have a bunch of stuff hiding behind My lr that I can barely see but since it got away I count it as a loss)
 
hagfish

hagfish

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When I frag a shroom I try to cut the head off and leave the base behind. The base will grow into a new shroom too. I've cut the head into 4 pieces before. That is 5 shrooms for the price of 1!
 
fedukeford

fedukeford

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Ive fraged some purple shrooms, my kenya tree has fragged itsself 15+ times. and ive split a couple zoo rocks to get some smaller frags.
 
nigerbang

nigerbang

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A few Cabbage leathers, just a couple zoo's, and green star polyps
all with a brand new razor and super glue..
 
teresaq

teresaq

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Ive done zoos and shrooms, and also my big leather. cut a one inch strip all aroung the edge, and then cut into pieces, and glued on rubble. I have 10 1x1 pieces.
 
reefkprz

reefkprz

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nice thanks for all the replies. There have to be more people out there who have fragged some other stuff. hopefully this thread will show some newer people in the hobby that fragging is not something to be scared of.
so this is basicly a long bump.
 
tx reef

tx reef

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I frag zoos with a razor and then glue them on a plug.
Mushrooms I cut the head off and then rubberband it to a reef lug.
Montipora caps I break a piece of and glue it to a plug.
Acropora, Birdsnest, & any other branching sps I break a couple of branches off and glue it to a plug.
There is nothing "special" or hard about fragging. It is easy to do and very hard to screw up.
 
jmesmcm

jmesmcm

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Mmontipora digitata, montipora capricornus and various other acropora use a dremel with a cutting wheel the place frags among the rockwork until I can return them to the store.
 
teen

teen

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i frag my millepora all the time by accident. its grownig close to the glass so when i go to clean the glass i always break a piece off when my hand bumps into it.
 
tx reef

tx reef

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Originally Posted by reefkprZ
encrusting montipora (no positive ID on this)
cut with tile saw or rotozip.
An better way to frag an encrusting monti is to glue a small piece of rock (or plug..whatever you want it to grow on to) next to it. When it grows over the small rock, simply pull it off.
My Pokerstar and Superman encrusting montis are on larege rocks or rocks that are not easily removed so cutting them is out of the question (as is the case with many people).....
 
reefkprz

reefkprz

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the Monti? I have builds kind of like a maze brain outward nothing you can really snap off and glue, I'm thinking its a mis-id on that but everyone I know who sees it says its some kind of encrusting monti but I am not sure, the polyps look a little too big, the skeleton looks like cauliflower. but solid. I'll take a pic of it when I get home, I'm at a friends waiting for some supplies to refinish their garage floor so they can seel their house.
 
tx reef

tx reef

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When the monti grows over the rock glue next to it, you can pull the rock off and then you have a small rock with part of the monti on it...
 
djhippie

djhippie

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so if i ct the head off a mushroom another one will grow from base?? and then i can slice head up and attach with rubberband.
how tight do i strap it down??
 
reef-fisher

reef-fisher

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fragged a red/green brain coral with about 4 mouths. cut underside with a dremel and set them in the sand. both did fine till i gave the frag to a friend and he killed it(at least i can blame it on someone!) razored zoos and xenia, but have yet to have success with mushrooms. just need more practice.
 
richarl5

richarl5

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Originally Posted by djhippie
so if i ct the head off a mushroom another one will grow from base?? and then i can slice head up and attach with rubberband.
how tight do i strap it down??
Only loose enough so that it doesn't float away. I accidentally squashed a small mushroom frag once because it was too tight.
 
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