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01/05/2007, 02:00 AM
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Oooh, that's a nice un! Too bad your overseas - i'd love a frag!
Most of the encrusting LPS like this, are fragged simply by hammer/chiseling off polyps. Personally I prefer to take the dremel to them using a 1 3/8" diamond wheel, undercutting an area (taking less than 1/4" of rock) then trimming carefully across the top - trying to keep whole polyps as much as possible. this way the colony continues to grow outwards at a 'normal' pace - as I've found in the past when one takes a big hunk off the edge, it seems to radically slow growth (I'm guessing it's more of a lighting issue - that cut edge is hard for the coral to grow around) Excuse the bubble algae (frag tank blew a seam - all got moved into this tank which was a fowlr) but here's a picture of a favia I fragged with this method august/sept. Took about 1" from the circumference of the colony. 
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01/05/2007, 02:05 AM
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Thank you very much, yes i was lucky to pic up this coral in a shop here.
Do u place the chisel in between the polyps as such, there where it looks liek they join and just take off 2 or 3? you can imagine how scared i am fragging this coral seeing that its rather rare color. |
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01/05/2007, 02:09 AM
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Depends on the fragger - honestly these are hardy corals... Short of heating them up too much it's hard to kill them.
Not sure how the hammer/chiseler's do it - I would assume they chisel under then try to neatly trim between polyps. Do they require extreme care/attention to frag correctly - no - if you tossed it at a concrete floor and shattered the rock, you'd likely have many frags (not that I would try such things  )
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