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Old 11/18/2007, 07:14 PM
Khaari Khaari is offline
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Frag a sun coral

Has anyone ever done this and could you explain how its done. Thanks in advance
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Old 11/19/2007, 04:12 PM
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Guess just just tear through it, pretty much only way to try it.
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Old 11/19/2007, 07:02 PM
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I was wondering the same thing, my mom loves it when its open so i wanted to cut a head of for her nano. But i dont want to damage the whole coral in the processs!!! anybody know how?
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Old 11/19/2007, 11:19 PM
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Here is an illustrations, how to frag duncan - fragging sun coral should be similar:
http://blogs.frags.org/member.php?uid=4043
Didn't tried myself.
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Old 11/19/2007, 11:33 PM
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I fragged mine by carefully prying off individual polyps growing around the edge of the mother colony. I was able to get the polyp and a little of the rock it was attached to. I think I just used the tip of a screwdriver.
I then glued the polyps to another piece of rock with Super Glue gel.
 


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