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How to frag a Gorgonian
I have a Red Gorgonian thats been in my 55 now for a while and is doing great. I wanted to frag a small piece of it off and put it in my nano tank. How would I go about doing this? Just cut a branch off and super glue?
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Basically cut a branch off near where it branches. Scrape away a very small portion of the flesh at the bottom and then super glue into a small hole in a rock and ur done. Do a search on
www.reefkeeping.com and there is a more in depth how to with pictures.
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Thanks a ton!
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Thats exactly what I was looking for. The pictures help a ton
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Beware, that:
- the thick skin is not peelable, you will have to cut it off in pieces; - the core is only slightly harder, than the skin, but differs by color; - the core breaks easily during not so gently cleaning, will it be siphoning of the tank, or cleaning the gorgonian in the stream of powerhead. The gorgonians with a wiry skeleton hold better. But re-fragging was done without problems. Good luck! |
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I heard that they don't last long in home aquarium. Are they hardy?
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I think, that they MAY not survive in the tank, that is fed twice a week 1-2 pellets
What is worse, more feeding may affect water quality, if the tank is not able to process the larger bioload. I would recommend to have a skimmer, even small (like Tunze Nano DOC) for a small tanks, cheap (like Lee's large CC skimmer ($20), if you can handle it), or original, like gravity fed Wayne's skimmer. Some people have unskimmed tanks, able to handle bioload: Aquabucket's post, but this was impossible in my tanks, and they lived on massive water changes. Hardy or not: They have particular requirements to flow and feeding, just like mushrooms, LPS or sps have. Note, that I have the red one a little more, than year - it's too early to say, how it will be in a longer term. I would feed them at least 3 times daily (morning, evening, night), food - a pinch of zooplankton, maximal size - Cyclop-eeze. Golden pearls, rotifers, baby brine, ZoPlan, Ron's food, Reef-roids should work too. Small particles of the mysis, left after the second wash. If your tank will be able to process such input of organics - you should be fine. Larger amount of LR, refugium or DSB in a bucket will help with nitrates, phosphate removing media - with phosphates. Flow should be relatively strong, reflected from the glass or farther from powerhead, up to starting to bend polyps. Too low - bacterial film will settle on the branches. Which one of gorgonians: - observable perfection of transparent polyps on the red body - Diodogorgia nodulifera, red finger gotgonian: (the tall one) Some are tall, some - wide and fluffy, take a look around - they are slightly different: (wide and fluffy, long tentacles) - cheerful, almost fluorescent, tangerine orange - Swiftia kofoidi (or S. exerta, with red polyps): all the same, only smaller food. The same swiftia closed, right from LFS: Summary: Filtration and source of the small food (zooplankton). And they are tall - you will need space for them. |
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