What do you frag with your bandsaw?

revhtree · Oct 14, 2009

What all do you frag with your bandsaw?

RandyO · Oct 14, 2009

Everything.

I'd like to know if everyone uses fresh water or Saltwater in their bandsaws when they cut corals. I think some corals are sensitive to FW in the bandsaw. I've found chalices and Montipora don't like it. Everything else seems fine.

Tanked · Oct 15, 2009

I frag almost everything with it with the exception of acro's.Also I use SW while cutting,it may rust the band saw out faster but they usually have a 2 year warranty so you trade it in before then anyway and yes Randy alot of stuff hates the FW exspeacially while going through such trama.

nismo_32 · Oct 15, 2009

everything including elegance corals i have frag about 30 elegance into 100+ frags and have lost one frag so far. evryother one has healed and grown i will post pics soon.....i have tried it all and wouldnt change my bandsaw for anything else again. no more dremel for me...lol....

revhtree · Oct 15, 2009

Are you all using the inland?

droblack · Oct 15, 2009

Favia/favites, chalice, micros, cyphastrea, and even zoas on rock/frag plug. Saltwater is the way to go. Inland.

m and m · Oct 15, 2009

Whats two or three band saws that are good for this?

nismo_32 · Oct 15, 2009

inland..all the way....i like it so much i became a distributor...LOL.....

JOSE CASAS · Oct 15, 2009

Nothing I dont have one lol. Waiting for Vic to buy me one lol.

droblack · Oct 15, 2009

Victor cuts frags with his teeth, old school style.

JOSE CASAS · Oct 15, 2009

droblack said:
Victor cuts frags with his teeth, old school style.

Danngggggggggg he is O.G!!!!!!!!!!!:wink::bigsmile:

noobreef408 · Oct 15, 2009

Has anyone ever tried putting lugol's solution and SW ? its like dipping while fragging =] neosporin while cutting =]! i tihnk its a great idea .

Reef Pets · Oct 15, 2009

Inland - Everything that will fit in the saw, I frag it.

I have never put any liquid in the saw and I have never had one issue. I have used the saw to frag HUGE colonies of Acans and so on without ever using a drip of water. It still runs like a champ.

Palancar · Oct 15, 2009

We frag everything except acros with our Gryphon bandsaw. We also use saltwater with it.

CTMarinelife · Oct 15, 2009

Just received my Inland today, did you do the complete elegance with the saw or just the base? Read to cut the base and let the tissue seperate itself.

FateX8 · Oct 15, 2009

ive only use fw and never had a problem with a single coral but ive only done acans and micros
also inland

MikeB · Oct 15, 2009

I use a bandsaw. Don't use ro water, I made that mistake when I diary got my bandsaw. Burnt 6 bubblegum monster frags.... I use the xl speedster bandsaw

revhtree · Oct 15, 2009

Do you use SW Mike?

stunreefer · Oct 15, 2009

Inland for everything - including rhizos

You can cut all the way through an Elegance, let it seperate, or cut the skeleton and use a razorblade for the tissue.

nismo_32 · Oct 15, 2009

i cut the elegance right thru the tissue also. they will heal just fine. i use SW but hve a dipping bucket and a cleaning bucket next to me. and also a squeeze bottle with SW. i cut them use the sqeeze bottle to remove the calcium from the cut, then i put it in the revive dip whle i keep cutting. then after about five minutes i take them out of the revive dip and rinse them in the bucket of regular SW and then glue them to the plugs and back in the tank they go. its a whole process but it have proven to work with everything i have fragged. im even getting some goniopora to start growing and fragged a scoly into 8 pieces and so far so good..... also cut a dendro in half and has then fully healed..... now in going to try and frag my colwn fish i think it will work....