How do I get A Ricordea of a rock?

[seaweed88]

I went back several pages and I could not find the answer. Anyone here have a trick that will help me remove Ricordeas from the rock they are growing on?
Thanks

 

[BlazinNano]

A screw drive and a hammer. Break a chunk of the rock off under the ricordea.

 

[makingbubbles]

i use a dremel tool to cut rocks around coral.

 

[Murfman]

I use a razor knife and just cut the rock under the Ric.

 

[seaweed88]

Thanks for the reply's. If I were to cut the Ric at the foot , leaving some of the ricordea stem still attached to the rock, Would it all die?

 

[Russellaqua]

Ricordea do have the ability to regenerate missing parts. If you leave a piece of the foot on the rock it can regenerate as long as infection doesn't get it, and the polyp can grow a new foot.

 

[seaweed88]

So if I had a rock with 10 Rics on it and I wanted to frag this rock. My best bet would be to cut the rock until the polyps were all separated but still attached to the rock. Then when I split the polyp. I would cut them in half leaving each half with part of the mouth. Half of the polyp is still attached to the rock and half is not. Is this close?

 

[Murfman]

Vitamin C can help in the repair of the coral, once it has been cut.

 

[seaweed88]

Thanks for all the replys. How would you dose Vit. C?

 

[CoralBandit]

Just leave a couple they will divide again and regrow your garden otherwise you have to let them heal.
If you do go the splitting route just FYI, I accidentally dropped a lot of kalk on one when killing aiptasia and it split in two. they are pretty bullet proof as long as they are growing in that particular environment.

 

[Murfman]

Thanks for all the replys. How would you dose Vit. C?

Vitamin C? - Reef Central Online Community

 

[seaweed88]

Thank you very much!!

 

[Murfman]

Seaweed, found the paper written by one of our young reefers at The SCMAS. Kid was only 15 when he did this research and took 2nd in the state science fair.

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/2908579/Paper.pdf