[mfreef]

Well the time has come to trim my colt coral back! I split the coral in half and I will frag one of those halves. The colt I am fragging is approx. 8 inches tall and 8 inches round when fully extended.


The colt coral to be fragged






With a clean razor I cut the colt into five frags. (basicly cutting the branches off) Gets a bit tricky though, as they slime up and shrink!






Now that I have my frags cut its time to mount them! I tie the coral snugly(not tight just enough to keep the coral in place while it attaches!)
with fishing line. I used three methods in this case. One frag still had some rock attached to it so I epoxied it to a larger rock. The second I tied the coral to the rock. And third I inserted the fishing line through the coral(like the toothpick method), and tied it to the rock.
If the fishing line is thick enough you can insert it through the coral without a needle. I am using 30 lbs test clear fising line. We will see which works better.






After tieing the coral to the rock rubble I use some super glue to hold the fishing line in place. I just tie half a knot and super glue the rest.



I will place the frags in a low flow area and wait for them to attach!
Here are the frags back in the tank---I think there mad at me:happy:

[graveyardworm]

Nice job denis!

[Kenn157]

Fragging blows my mind. These are animals not plants. Usually you cut a shoot from a plant put it in water and roots grow. You plant it in the dirt and it grows. Doing this to animals, animals that look like plants and they live and grow. Wow! Aint nature wonderful.

[Marc Smith]

Awesom Den! Great thread!

Hall of fame it goes.

[mfreef]

UPDATE!!
all the frags have now attacheted except one.seem so far that tieing down(not throu) has worked the best! the frags I tied throu just grew the fishing line out! and the one that I wedged into a rock was just a pain to keep up with! but all are doing well and one has a new home as of tomorrow..so we will see how well it adapts to a different tank!

[graveyardworm]

Nice Denis, thanks for the update. Strange how they grew the string out. My green tree did just fine that way. Oh well they're all a little different I suppose.