Should I frag my frogspawn ?

[AquaJunkie]

Hi, I have been thinking about fragging my frogspawn for awhile now.



It is currently placed on the sandbed and since it has gotten bigger in the last few months seems to be getting crowded.



I would like to move half of it to another place in the tank but this would be my first Time fragging lps.



Would it be wise to frag it or will the coral be fine as it is?



How would I go about the process?



And if I was to frag it, where would I make the cut?



Any help or exp in this would be appreciated.

 

[bichirfreak]

U can how many heads

 

[bichirfreak]

It looks cool is it really that blue/purple in person . Is it a hammer coral kinda looks like one in the pic

this is my first one not the prettiest but it's my first frogspawn

 

[bichirfreak]

Hi, I have been thinking about fragging my frogspawn for awhile now.



It is currently placed on the sandbed and since it has gotten bigger in the last few months seems to be getting crowded.



I would like to move half of it to another place in the tank but this would be my first Time fragging lps.



Would it be wise to frag it or will the coral be fine as it is?



How would I go about the process?



And if I was to frag it, where would I make the cut?



Any help or exp in this would be appreciated.

U have a day time pic I would love to see it . I like the colors in it

 

[afamousjohnson]

I dont think u need to worry about it crowding itself. Looks fine. Have a couple with a good 10+ heads and I've seen bigger.

If you do - dont go through flesh. Cut the bone like structure of it. Either where the 2 branchs meet or say on the red line on the right branch in pic. I use bone cutters/side cutters to frag mine. Lots of vids on youtube.

 

[mfinn]

I don't like to frag my euphyllia. The bigger the better.

 

[AquaJunkie]

Sorry it's hard to capture the light with leds this best picture I could get.

It's started at 2 heads and I can now see 3 almost 4 on each side.

The new heads tenticals are practically on the sand bed because the V- shape is pretty wide, wouldn't this irritate the new heads trying to come through?

 

[AquaJunkie]

I had to drill a hole in a small LR to get it to sit in place. I don't have room to move the whole coral up the rock work but I do have a little space for half of it.

 

[saltyphish]

I had to frag my torch recently due to something killing off the heads. All I did was cut where the branches split off and super glued it to a piece of live rock. I also dipped mine in lugols after cutting and they seem fine. But you don't have to frag it. It should do fine as is.

 

[mfinn]

Move the frogspawn up onto a rock and superglue it so it stays in place.

 

[jstec]

+1 bone cutters. I would wait until it's bigger unless you really want to I have a 10+ head hammer and it is fine there are even babies coming out sideways that are new it seems like every couple of months and they end up just fine too. In nature there is no one to cut them so I've just let it go crazy I am going to have to frag a couple off and sell them soon though bc they are taking up so much room in the tank. I'd say glue them and let them grow out you will be impressed more with a colony than a double head.

 

[Z06-Hec]

this question has brought me to think about the same question.... Sounds interesting, 1 of my torches has about 6 heads... think i may try cutting it apart...

 

[mainereefer]

do not use bone cutters! the stem of frogspawn is abmost corrigated on the inside (like cardboard ) problem is it is brittle and you dont know where it will actually break could snap up into the polyp of the coral .

having said that i dont know why you would want to frag a frag? just let it grow. my frogspawn would reach 60+ heads before I would frag it ...

 

[mrcoffee2]

do not use bone cutters! the stem of frogspawn is abmost corrigated on the inside (like cardboard ) problem is it is brittle and you dont know where it will actually break could snap up into the polyp of the coral .

having said that i dont know why you would want to frag a frag? just let it grow. my frogspawn would reach 60+ heads before I would frag it ...

This... Dont use bone cutters!! I did it to a frog spawn 2 weeks ago and it cracked it all the way up the polyp... I did manage to save it by super gluing the crack together but it was crazy! I could see the inside of the coral.

 

[jstec]

Well forget what I said then ! I have personally never had a problem but if this can happen obviously there are better ways to do it. Any ideas?

 

[afamousjohnson]

It has happened to me also when i was stretching to get a frag. If it is large enough to frag and has a good sized branch before the head u should be fine but that is with the risk of a bad cracking cut. Maybe if you took a razor blade and made a small guide cut all the way around where you want it to break off and than cut the guide line it would help. You wont get a clean flat edge cut tho.
Could use a dremmil or wet saw to cut but if a dremmil make sure you take breaks dipping it in the water to cool it. The cut will get hot. But this way you will have a perfect flat edge cut.

 

[mrcoffee2]

Dremel sounds like a good idea.