Why Do People Lay Frags Down on Frag Plugs

[hart24601]

I had forgotten about this, but I saw watching a coral restoration video and I am pretty sure they took 10 frags or so and mounted them horizontally so they would encrust and then when the frags grow together the coral “thinks” it’s much larger and spawns drastically faster than trying to grow them to colonies. I need to find where that was. Almost think it was a presentation my Justin credible at a frag fest.

 

[Denniswbliss]

I watched a video and it explained that when corals break during storms how often do you see frags land straight up and down. Never will that happen unless it land in some sort of substraight and then it will never stay that way. When you glue a frag laying down the flow moving over the cut part generates all the benifishal elements over that cutting and heals the frag quicker.

 

[Raptor72]

I watched a video and it explained that when corals break during storms how often do you see frags land straight up and down. Never will that happen unless it land in some sort of substraight and then it will never stay that way. When you glue a frag laying down the flow moving over the cut part generates all the benifishal elements over that cutting and heals the frag quicker.

Benefishal - - I see what you did there. [emoji1]

 

[Denniswbliss]

Benefishal - - I see what you did there. [emoji1]

I don' understand. Did my post make no sence? Or did the marine biologist tell us false news? I mean who am I to disagree with the doctor? As I'm a student my self ?

 

[Bpb]

I don' understand. Did my post make no sence? Or did the marine biologist tell us false news? I mean who am I to disagree with the doctor? As I'm a student my self ?

He thinks you were making a pun. You misspelled beneficial, and I believe he assumed it to be intentional

 

[UFreefer]

Benefishal - - I see what you did there. [emoji1]

I don' understand. Did my post make no sence? Or did the marine biologist tell us false news? I mean who am I to disagree with the doctor? As I'm a student my self ?

I can't tell if this is a troll post with all of grammar mistakes or not, but either way it's hilarious

 

[JasPR]

Beneficial in what way? In our tanks we oftem "force" corals to grown in manner that they possibly wouldn't as a wild colony. Many SPS look completely different and grow differently under different flow and flow patterns. Is that a bad thing? If the colony is healthy, it's healthy whether it's tabling and encrusting more or if it's branching in different patterns. How a coral branches doesn't determine it's health I don't think.

I think you are onto something-- the nature of the creature is part of the formula- spreading, rising, expanding as a GENETIC imperative and code. And then shaping of the animal according to its environment as a second component. Current, lighting and substrate being just some of the environmental elements that overcome or 'mold and model' the growth pattern. This can often make the finished animal look entirely different than it's gene code says it should grow. Think of lower forms such as trees. Bonsai trees being a good example. But any tree can be stunted, shaped and even grow sideways due to environment ( think pine tree on a ridge facing the wind).

 

[ZaneTer]

I can't tell if this is a troll post with all of grammar mistakes or not, but either way it's hilarious

Why would you mock someone that may not be native speaker?

 

[jh2pizza]

I recall Anthony Calfo giving a fragging workshop and recommended Laying some sps down when gluing. I have always laid any tabling SPS down and seem to get a very strong full base when doing so. It does seem to take a little longer to get vertical branching, but I like the wider, thicker base.

 

[Graffiti Spot]

Talking with farmers in Indo a few years ago, they don't lay them down because they can get more areas for silt/debris to settle up against, develop bacteria issues, diseases and tissue death - they mount them the way that they are growing... usually vertically. I open to the fact that nature and captivity can diverge in this sense since fragments don't usually get lost in the silt and sand in our tanks... but I guess that I still get really irked when I see a nice frag that I want and it is laying down on a plug knowing that I have an extra year before it becomes something in my tank... saw a stag like this at a show this weekend.

Yea the culture sites do this because there is a lot of degree close to shore sometimes I would imagine. When I get these deepwater or efflorescence pieces mounted sideways I always remount them vertically unless they have grown a fair amount and adjusted in a vendors tank. I have much better luck doing this, a lot of these corals aren't used to the light in certain areas and those pieces, if they do well mounted upright it takes a while longer t ok get there than when I remount them back to the natural growth pattern.

 

[Graffiti Spot]

I still o ly mount sideways when it's a small nub of something or a fas encrusted that takes forever to branch up. Mounting some stuff sideways just makes the base so much stronger and .uch more branches developed lower down, it doesn't end up being a thin twiggy branching fragment that turns to a colony at the top. Some pieces that don't encrust much, there is no point in mounting them sideways.