Can I frag my toadstool in my tank or will it hurt anything? Already posted in fragging discussion trying to cover all my bases. Leather owners can it be fragged in a mixed reef? What do I do to prevent harm to other inhabitants?
Fragging toadstool in tank
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I've seen reefers just cut the leather with a knife give it a dip and glue it to a plug. Make sure your running a carbon source. I would give it a revive and/or an iodine dip to help it make a smooth recovery.
Nigel
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Use a razor, sanitize beforehand. Put the cutting on some reef rubble, say in a basket, and it will attach. then you can glue to reef plug.
Here is a fellow reefers method of fragging leathers:
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Fragging and Attaching Leather Corals
There are many different types of coral and many different ways to propagate them. It's much easier fragging a stony coral, like an Acorpora, and just gluing it down with Super Glue Gel. Soft corals can be much more difficult but it gets easier to attach these once you get the hang of it...
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The rubber band can work. I have had limited success with that method. If it comes loose, sometimes hard to find. A little plastic basket with a lid and rock rubble has been more consistent for me.Here is a fellow reefers method of fragging leathers:
Fragging and Attaching Leather Corals
There are many different types of coral and many different ways to propagate them. It's much easier fragging a stony coral, like an Acorpora, and just gluing it down with Super Glue Gel. Soft corals can be much more difficult but it gets easier to attach these once you get the hang of it...
Might depend on how big your tank is. I have a 180 gal tank and I just snip what I want off the leather right in the tank. I've never had any problems. I rarely run carbon.
OP
OP
I just glued them down with gel glue. Worked like a charm
Nice! Sometimes they shed or slime depending on softie, just something to be aware of. Lost a couple frags so bought a $10 frag basket. That is pretty fool proof and also keeps urchins and fish at bay, lol
OP
OP
My frags have some polyps open today but some of them look brown and mad even though it’s a Tyree green toadstool. Is that normal?
Can you take a picture? A little brown and I wouldn't be surprised. As others have mentioned leathers can excrete a slime/shed while getting settled. Much like Xenia take a little bit of time to get healthy when fragged. Have you dipped the frags at all?
OP
OP
Yeah In iodine. The mother is starting to send polyps back out and some of the small frags are sending out polyps. One straight up melted but the other three look ok. Please ignore the finger leather chiling there
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Looks as I would expect! It may take a few days to get back into shape.
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How about the frags? Will they make it?
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Probably. keep In mind the base color of a tyree toadstool is tan, not green. I see some grumpy frags that look like they are fresh cut. Sometimes they make it, sometime the don’t. At this point i think you have done what you can do. Keep them on the bottom and let them recover. I had a tyree toadstool stay closed for like two months due to a fish picking at it. Three weeks after I removed the fish it was back to looking great and 6 weeks after removing the fish it had doubled in size.
they are really tough. in the off chance that these frags don’t survive, you can make more soon.
I do this as well. I have a 120g and just cut up multiples at the same time in the tank with no issues.
I have never run carbon and never sanitized any cutting utensils.
I found the toothpick method works best for me with regard to attaching new frags to rocks/plugs. After I stick it through the frag I glue one end of the toothpick to the rock, and then half break/bend the other end so the toadstool cant slide off. Super quick and easy.
After a few days when the toadstool is attached to the rock/plug I snip off the rest of the toothpick sticking out of the toadie. The coral eventually grows around the remaining toothpick and you cant see any part of it.
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Yeah basically. This is what they looked like before I moved them to the frag rack. I think they got ticked from too much light
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