Green Slimer floating away?

[swebb]

I accidentally broke off a piece of green slimer when doing a water change today. I decided to use some fishing line to tie it to one of the braces of my tank. Has anyone done this before ? I am looking forward to seeing the results.

 

[Waters]

I have not done it but that is the way a lot of the coral restoration projects work in the oceans....just tie them up and let them float and grow

 

[35ppt]

I accidentally broke off a piece of green slimer when doing a water change today. I decided to use some fishing line to tie it to one of the braces of my tank. Has anyone done this before ? I am looking forward to seeing the results.

I did this with a piece of frag rack I had to cut up from being overgrown by zoas. Zoas didn't mind and covered both sides of the rack I suspended. They grow corals suspended in water in the ocean for mariculture.

 

[swebb]

I have not done it but that is the way a lot of the coral restoration projects work in the oceans....just tie them up and let them float and grow

Yeah that’s where I got my inspiration.

 

[Waters]

If you tie up a nice kite shaped monti and add a little bit of flow, think of the possibilities

 

[motortrendz]

Itll be interesting to see how it grows.

 

[tupes]

Some place grow frags in the wild like this.

 

[tupes]

After reading the other posts fully I see my photo was already covered. lol.

 

[tupes]

I accidentally broke off a piece of green slimer when doing a water change today. I decided to use some fishing line to tie it to one of the braces of my tank. Has anyone done this before ? I am looking forward to seeing the results.

Please keep us updated as it grows.

 

[Graffiti Spot]

Someone did this a while ago and the colonies grew really nice and uniform and fairly quick.

 

[Graffiti Spot]

I thought about trying to diy something that would rotate a line running horizontally in the water that you can mount frags to so the frags grow in every direction and form twice as many branches but haven’t figured it out just yet. If someone has an idea shoot me a pm and I might try it.

 

[swebb]

I thought about trying to diy something that would rotate a line running horizontally in the water that you can mount frags to so the frags grow in every direction and form twice as many branches but haven’t figured it out just yet. If someone has an idea shoot me a pm and I might try it.

Right now the coral is small enough that it is blowing all over the place so I guess you could say it is getting light on all sides. The polyps have come back out so it must not be that unhappy.

 

[swebb]

The frag has encrusted over where it broke off. The colony took the same amount of time to grow over itself. No picture as I could not get one worth posting.

 

[swebb]

The frag has begun to start encrusting up the fishing line. The underside of the frag that was duller and less green underneath is now indistinguishable in from the top in color.

 

[CenCalReef]

Take a pic i'm curious now lol. Maybe i'll grab all my frags and tie them up on a clothesline setup and see what happens lol this is awesome

 

[swebb]

Take a pic i'm curious now lol. Maybe i'll grab all my frags and tie them up on a clothesline setup and see what happens lol this is awesome

Here is a video of the frag bouncing around.

 

[Hemmdog]

Here is a video of the frag bouncing around.

Videos don’t work for Apple users. Do you have a picture ?

 

[swebb]

Videos don’t work for Apple users. Do you have a picture ?

Its not the best, I will try to get another one later.

 

[Hemmdog]

Its not the best, I will try to get another one later.

Nice!

 

[CenCalReef]

Here is a video of the frag bouncing around.

that's pretty hilariously awesome I might clip a branch and try that out as well