Scraping Cyphastrea off glass?

[exnisstech]

I have a Cyphastrea on the bare bottom of a tank that is encrusting nicely. That is what I wanted it to do it so that's fine. However I have a flat rock area in a valley that is bare and I would like to place an encrusting coral there. Is there any chance I could scrape part of this one off the glass and place it on the rock or would it just crumble? I have a couple of encrusting monti frags but the area I'm looking to fill spends a lot of time partially shaded from the large red nem higher in the tank that is the centerpiece.

 

[DeniseAndy]

Not sure as I try to keep some sort of base under mine. Gorgeous!!!!

It seems rather fragile and scraping may just damage it, but you could put the scrapings on a bare rock/rubble and see if it grows. Never know.

 

[Udest]

Yeah you could try cutting the edge then scraping some bits off it I'm sure that wouldn't hurt it any.

 

[exnisstech]

It's one if the most successful corals that I have grown from a frag . I glued the original frag onto a rock that gave it its shape. It's probably 5 inches accross not counting the eccrusted part and 3 inches tall. Thinking about it after all my failures I should probably leave this one alone and just pick up a frag of a different color.

 

[Tcook]

Leave it alone. Get another. Variety is nice to have.

 

[biecacka]

Put a small frag disk next to it. Let it grow onto that and then just move that to where you want to put it.


corey

 

[Wasabiroot]

I like it personally. Cyphastrea and encrusters don't always get the love they deserve, and it adds a nice contrast to the fleshy lps next to it.