Psammocora - Fragging in tank tips?

[Dkmoo]

Hi Everyone

I have a growing colony of gold psammacora that's now starting to bother its neighbors (grew about 10x in size in 3 years...). I'm thinking now i have to trim it to keep it from spreading too much. I know i can just scrap it off but seem like a waste of such a healthy specimen. Any chance I can frag the edges? All fragging videos for encrusting corals that i see are for the ones still on fragplugs and they just break up the plug in pieces. That's not gonna work since my colony is on a piece of rock that i can't take out. I know i can try to chip the edge pieces out with some rocks attached, but the main concern there are 1) i'll need to take a hammer and chisel and hammer into the tank - i don't have the balls for that. 2) the coral grows fast, if i want to turn this into a long term thing and maybe trade/sell the frags, then eventually i'd run out of rocks on the edges to chip away.

Any thoughts/brain storm on how to best do this? or is it even possible?

 

[gentlefish]

If you can chip, you can glue of frags. No I would not use a hammer anywhere close to my tank, and certainly not inside. With the limitations, it is not possible. At times I draw “a line in the sand” between battling SPS with AptasiaX. It kills the thin stripe of polyps affected. Needs to be reapplied though.