Fragging a scoly

revhtree · Mar 31, 2009

Thanks for sharing! I am waiting with anticipation on this one!

Poseidon · Mar 31, 2009

revhtree said:
Thanks for sharing! I am waiting with anticipation on this one!

Ya, me too! Cause if it works, I am going to ask you to cut YOURS!

zoous · Mar 31, 2009

Wow nice job on cutting the scoly and looks health after the cut. I personally would have a hard time cutting such a nice coral.

Shells · Mar 31, 2009

Very curious to see how this works out - please keep us all posted.

Suppressivefire · Mar 31, 2009

How about taking two different morphs and putting them back together?

iani · Mar 31, 2009

All looks good today. Scoly is inflated and doesn't look stressed at all.

Hypertek99 · Mar 31, 2009

I'm sure it will survive. But i wonder how long for it to heal back to it's original donut shape

msman825 · Mar 31, 2009

Poseidon said:
Ya, me too! Cause if it works, I am going to ask you to cut YOURS!

thats a good one . yah Rev three times lol

Ladipyg · Apr 1, 2009

Suppressivefire said:
How about taking two different morphs and putting them back together?

I was thinking the same thing...you could really come up with some wild looking scolys that way!!!

benihana · Apr 1, 2009

This is awesome...thanks for sharing....can't wait to see additional pics!

AlexStinson · Apr 1, 2009

I just fragged my scoly a few days ago, and it is looking amazing.

bitterboy2 · Apr 8, 2009

here's a sequence of pictures spanning 30 minutes where I fed it.

I watched as it dropped it's intestines and wrapped up a mysis shrimp sorry about the coraline

here it is drawing up into itself

Here's a great shot of it wrapping a piece of shrimp and bring it in to eat

I worried about the stringy intestines possibly getting snagged up and damaged. But 30 minutes later, it had drawn itself back in
That was two days after we cut it, here it is 5 days from fragging...cant even see any damaged tissue looks great

Think we'll try this guy at the meeting this saturday, looks like my frag is doing alright

Dooly · Apr 10, 2009

very nice! keep the updates coming!

how long do you guys estimate it would take for the scoly to become whole/round again? i know with fungias sometimes it doesn't turn out round as it used to.. just haven't seen anyone frag scolymias before..

Hypertek99 · Apr 10, 2009

I say another month for it to get round.

Dooly · Apr 14, 2009

only 1 month to get round?.. I wouldve thought more like 6 months?

Hypertek99 · Apr 14, 2009

I guess we'll just have to wait to find out?

Dooly · Apr 14, 2009

yes, we need some updates.. and don't mean to hijack, but if the skeleton is showing, would it be best to dremel out the old stuff without flesh so the scoly can recover/regenerate better?

bitterboy2 · Apr 22, 2009

I dont know, but today I noticed that it formed a new mouth. Since the cut was along the length of the mouth instead of cutting it across, the mouth seems to have rotated 90 degrees, its fully formed, and not just part of the cut.