Help Kenya tree... Not a kenya tree anymore is it dead?

[m2736185]

I cut my kenya tree into 3 different frags then glued them onto rocks to my suprise when I woke up this morning it turned into a blop of brown skin like algea in what use to be a kenya frag. Its almost as if the kenya tree melted into algae or something

[joekr]

3 frags from one coral may have been too much. How big was the tree to begin w/ ?
I usually take a frag off my corals, let the mother colony heal and then frag it again....

[floridajhawk]

You need to use stainless steel scissors and make one fast cut on a rather large piece of any leather. You need to let the colony heal as joekr said and then you may frag the mother colony again in a few weeks or however long it takes her to heal

[Ti]

where did u cut?

[m2736185]

I cut from the bottom up, between the branches

[Ti]

You split it in halves?

[m2736185]

well the tree, well the parts that I cut into 4 pieces have disintegrated...guess i did something wrong

[Ti]

Yeh, I get the the kenya got butchered instead of fragged.

[m2736185]

hey it works with mushrooms why not kenya

[Ti]

Mushrooms are different.
Mushrooms are MUSHROOMS.
Just cause it's a soft coral too doesn't mean you can hack it like that.
I've torn shrooms to nothing but strands and they come back.
You can't treat a kenya like that.
They are very hardy, but you can't butcher them and expect them to come back.

[Reeftreasures]

i just shake my kenya tree and they fall off and i pick them up and tie them to rocks with thread i have about 50 floating all over the tank no need to cut at all

[joekr]

many corals are fragged/propagated differently. before you slice and dice anything, research it first. I've made my share of mistakes, so please don't consider this lecturing, but search here in the forums before you attempt fragging something...

[hamburglar]

Mistakes happen. Just start slow next time. Better safe than sorry.

[teachermark]

Kenya trees frag themselves, if I graze my hand across a larger one it will spit 2 or 3 frags at me.

[AnnArborBuck]

I have found you can cut kenya tree corals almost anytime, anywhere, and in any method. I have taken on colony and cut it into 15 frags before without a problem. I woudn't pull them from your tank till you are positive they are dead. Kenya's will often retract and look like crap, and then all of a sudden they are back to life. They will also go into the mass reproduction mode where they will turn grey and basically dissenegrate into a thousand pieces, which of course all turn into baby's kenya's.

[m2736185]

damn...should have told me sooner i took them all out. Well thanks for the info now I know better