Fragging LPS coral

[dieselkeeper]

I'm looking frag a hammer and a gonipora. A coral saw is too expensive just to use it very little. Can a time saw work just as good?

 

[Mastiffsrule]

Evening,

Are we talking wall or branching hammer? Never did a Goni. What are you fragging for?

Did you mean tile saw but it autocorrected?

 

[dieselkeeper]

Coral are softball size. Taking up alot of room on the sand bed. Figured I could sell a few frags. Branching hammer. Yea, auto correct got me. Should say tile saw.

 

[Mastiffsrule]

Ah,

I have not tried a tile saw to frag. I would personally not try, maybe someone else can chime in.

Hammer corals I have used a bone cutter that can be obtained thru Brs as fragging tools.

Fragging Tools

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There’s a fragging 101 also that’s cool.

Fragging 101 I Hammer Coral

Methodology: The method I use for fragging the majority of hard corals is primarily the same with the cutting tooling being an Inland band saw. Cooling liquid used is fresh mixed saltwater with enough iodine to color it a light amber. This helps to disinfect cuts as they’re made which has...

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[Daddy-o]

I have fragged with a tile saw. The main thing I learned was to flip the coral over and cut from the backside. The water really tore up flesh right next to the blade if I cut them right side up.
Cheers! Mark

 

[Cdipasquale]

Your branching hammer you can just use some bone cutter or some kind of cutting pliers to cut the branches. And yes a tile cutter will work fine to clean up the breaks and to cut the goni. Back in the day before I purchased a bandsaw, we would just take a wood chisel and hammer to corals like that. Much less controlled but still worked out just fine.