Nano Euphyllia Frags Experiment

Evan West · Feb 6, 2018

So ive been thinking about doing this little project/experiment for a while but just now go around to doing it out of boredom. So far as ive seen no one has done this so without further adue:

There have been small baby buds around the base flesh of all of my euphyllia frags for some time now and they haven't really grown or gone anywhere since appearing despite the whole colony growing rapidly. So I got bored and decided to go chopping and snip a few off to see what would happen since they hadn't grown much attached to the mother colony.

This produced some very very small single head frags of my orange frogspawn:

We will see how this goes!

nautical_nathaniel · Feb 7, 2018

Good luck! Those will be the tiniest frags of euphyllia I've ever seen if they make it!

Tuffyyyyy · Feb 7, 2018

Curious to see if anything happens

Evan West · Feb 7, 2018

nautical_nathaniel said:
Good luck! Those will be the tiniest frags of euphyllia I've ever seen if they make it!

Tuffyyyyy said:
Curious to see if anything happens

Same and same haha, thats why im experimenting with it as ive never seen it done and I wanna know what happens!

Vincent100 · Feb 7, 2018

Definitely watching;Pompus

bo0sted2g · Feb 7, 2018

Should be fine. I killed my frogspawn but the skeleton was glued down so I left it in there and it is now growing little baby heads about that size!

Evan West · Feb 7, 2018

bo0sted2g said:
Should be fine. I killed my frogspawn but the skeleton was glued down so I left it in there and it is now growing little baby heads about that size!

This is different however as it could potentially be a propagation method if the little heads i cut off grow with any speed.

leahfiish · Feb 7, 2018

Following, seems like a good idea to me. Just like pruning off heads that gett shaded and relocating them.

Evan West · Feb 7, 2018

leahfiish said:
Following, seems like a good idea to me. Just like pruning off heads that gett shaded and relocating them.

Yep, Its just tricky cuz they are sooooo small.

rockskimmerflow · Feb 7, 2018

I've made a couple frags of the tiny buds that sprout from the base of euphyllia heads. I never had one die after gluing the babies onto plugs so you should do just fine with them. You are in it for the long haul though haha. I think it took a year for one of those little ones to get to barely saleable size. Was fun to try that's for sure.

ReefQueen · Feb 7, 2018

I did this with a frogspawn a few years back, it ended up growing to be almost fist sized when open. I lost it when my tank crashed unfortunately

rogersb · Feb 7, 2018

I did this a few years ago as well. I think it took about a year to get to a size I could sell. It was fun to watch but I wouldn't do it again because it takes up space.

owenmck1 · Feb 7, 2018

Following, I’ve been seeing the same thing on my frog spawn and was curious to see the outcome of this!

cmcoker · Feb 7, 2018

Also had a frogspawn die off and 2 tiny baby heads sprout out from the skeleton. They went from about the size of your frags, to about the size of quarter fully inflated in the last year.

Good luck with them!

Evan West · Feb 7, 2018

cmcoker said:
Also had a frogspawn die off and 2 tiny baby heads sprout out from the skeleton. They went from about the size of your frags, to about the size of quarter fully inflated in the last year.

Good luck with them!

Well if it works out my orange frogspawn has like 8 more little buds that arent growing where they are and my green/blue frogspawn and green hammer are in the same boat so it might be a decent way to raise up some frags to pass along.