Just fragged my Hammer coral :)

[mogurnda]

Nice fragging! Just for variety, you might also try household epoxy putty. I use it for all my stony frags.

For mushrooms, I generally decapitate and plant the heads with toothpicks. The leftover stalk will quickly become a new shroom. They have been pretty hard for me to kill.

 

[Wah-ya]

GARF has some really helpful video clips on fragging various corals.

 

[FL Knifemaker]

Dave,

I'm going to try that tonight. I have two different shrooms, one type in each tank. Both are growing like crazy. I just want to get both started in each tank and maybe get some going on some small pieces of LR for trading stock.

Wah,

I guess I can explore the GARF site again!! I got lost in there once for about 3 days Hopefully they pruned all the dead and redirecting links!! There was a lot of good info in there, just confusing as heck to find.

 

[Wah-ya]

I actually stumbled on the video clips by accident, I think....*snicker*...as I was lost in there too.

 

[Max]

I just take a razor and slice of a little bit of the foot on both rics and shrooms. After a few days it will crawl out from under mom and there you go new critter. It's neat in that you can get 3 or 4 with out really hurting the critter . It's also the way that the shrooms for one reproduce on their own so hey mother nature know best. I can also say that I've never lost any critters doing this. With one exception anyway I'm not 100% sure but, I think that maybe one of my shrooms grew back together.
The disadvantage is that it will take you a little longer but, hey I have pleanty of time.
hth
Chris

 

[FL Knifemaker]

Thanks guys,

I'm going to operate on my shrooms over the weekend. I think I'll leave the Ricordia alone until it grows a little more. I'm trading a bunch of Xynia and Sinulara frags on friday so space might start being an issue. I need a 125!!!!

 

[Max]

Fl do you mind if I'm a little bit of a busy body and ask which way you're going to try. I ran across the method I mentioned on reef central a while back. It is slower to adult size but, you sure can get more ,"cuttings" and it really doesn't bother the critters much.
just being me

 

[FL Knifemaker]

Fl do you mind if I'm a little bit of a busy body and ask which way you're going to try. I ran across the method I mentioned on reef central a while back. It is slower to adult size but, you sure can get more ,"cuttings" and it really doesn't bother the critters much.
just being me

Max,

Right now I have two rocks COVERED in shrooms. In my 36 I have red/orange ones, in my nano I have large brown ones. I wanted to end up with both varieties in each tank more so than getting them to multiply where they are. I was going to cut them as Dave mentioned to get them started in each tank. At the same time I can try your method ons some of the remaining ones. I'm open to any suggestions but once I get them out of the tank and they are all slimy I hope my cuts and aim are true

 

[FL Knifemaker]

Here's the frag I put in my nano. The crab is keeping it tidy

 

[plantman1028]

I tried mogurnda's way and it worked like a charm.Now I have 6 or 7 purple shrooms. :dance