This toadstool leather is growing like crazy

kycstudios · #1 09/28/2007, 07:39 PM

Check it out

Budding

Another shot

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Runfrumu · #2 09/29/2007, 10:46 AM

very nice. are you going to frag it off or let it grow beside the other one?

kycstudios · #3 09/29/2007, 01:33 PM

I am going to frag it off with a hacksaw and grow 2 others hopefully and place in 2 other tanks once they are healthy.....

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darkcirca · #4 10/01/2007, 01:02 PM

Mine is huge like that also, thing just keeps getting bigger and bigger. So you just hack it to frag it? Seems simple enough

swreefers · #5 10/02/2007, 10:27 PM

How do you cut that thing with a hack saw and were? I have never fragged anything but this would seem to be difficult unlike corals with stalks or branches its one big juicy tissue right?

onecrzyboi4u · #6 10/03/2007, 01:50 AM

i can't get mine to come out.. whats ur secret i have two of them. i have 24x turnover ..

kycstudios · #7 10/03/2007, 08:19 AM

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Originally posted by swreefers
How do you cut that thing with a hack saw and were? I have never fragged anything but this would seem to be difficult unlike corals with stalks or branches its one big juicy tissue right?

....The toadstool is budding at the bottom; what i meant was I could cut the rock a little near the place where they are budding also cutting the small toadstools from the mother colony with a hack saw.

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Originally posted by onecrzyboi4u
i can't get mine to come out.. whats ur secret i have two of them. i have 24x turnover ..

The only secret I have is no secret a ro unit and good salt mixes,salinity 0.25,alternating direct flow.

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onecrzyboi4u · #8 10/03/2007, 10:09 AM

heres my toadstool.. had it a year

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kycstudios · #9 10/03/2007, 11:01 AM

I am no expert but it looks like a different species from what I have got..... I have a finger leather with polyps like that...

crispyreef · #10 10/03/2007, 02:28 PM

Just thought I would share. This is a pic of my small one. I have a larger one that is 12" in diameter at the head.

onecrzyboi4u · #11 10/03/2007, 11:38 PM

hmm i dunno what the heck i have then

darkcirca · #12 10/04/2007, 07:33 AM

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Originally posted by onecrzyboi4u
hmm i dunno what the heck i have then

An unhappy toadstool most likely. My toadstool looked like that when I first got it, and over the weeks grew it's little polyps. It doesn't look like the above, but it has similar polyps throughout the whole thing. I'd get a picture, but the tank lights aren't on yet.

onecrzyboi4u · #13 10/04/2007, 10:16 AM

hmm wonder why it's not happy.. been in the tank for a year now..

thor32766 · #14 10/04/2007, 12:33 PM

wow that first leather is sweet!

andbigdaddy2 · #15 10/04/2007, 01:14 PM

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Originally posted by kycstudios
I am no expert but it looks like a different species from what I have got..... I have a finger leather with polyps like that...

It looks like a Devils hand Leather to me not a toad.

Damsel in Distress · #16 10/04/2007, 05:48 PM

sorry double post

Damsel in Distress · #17 10/04/2007, 05:49 PM

What does this one look like? A toadstool, a massage chair, or a polyp buffet?

crispyreef · #18 10/05/2007, 11:25 AM

It looks like a toadstool that took on a funny growth. Probably the result of when it was cut and mounted.

+++TheZombie+++ · #19 10/05/2007, 11:32 AM

I did not know there was a such thing as a devils hand leather?

crispyreef · #20 10/05/2007, 02:35 PM

Yes, it's a lobophytum.

1QuickSubaru · #21 10/05/2007, 03:07 PM

awesome! Mine is growing at a reasonable rate....

bill37 · #22 10/05/2007, 10:16 PM

I am going to jump in here too. I am looking for help. My toadstool is similar to the first on except the stalk is about 10 inches tall and about 2 inches in diameter. The head is huge. How do I frag this thing??? I have heard you can cut around the head so you have a ring and then cut that into pieces. what about the stalk, can I just cut straight through it?? This thing wont stop growing.

kycstudios · #23 10/06/2007, 04:25 PM

Thanks for the comments etc... I am too afraid to frag the toadstool I have but i guess when it is about to grow out of the tank i will frag it or get a bigger Tank

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yardboy · #24 10/09/2007, 02:16 PM

I have a Sarcophyton that's about 12" in diameter, hate to think how big it would be if I hadn't trimmed it. I just take cuts around the outside, basically making the diameter smaller. The ring cut off is divided into smaler pieces to grow out. Doesn't affect the larger coral much at all. Just be careful about taking too much at once, mostly because all the pieces produce lots of mucous which can foul your prop tank (experience talking)

crabbejoe · #25 10/09/2007, 08:34 PM

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Originally posted by Damsel in Distress
What does this one look like? A toadstool, a massage chair, or a polyp buffet?

Is that an anemone crab?