Both frags I made are tree corals, but they are different species. One is the general Kenyan tree coral but it has a nicer than normal purple to it. The other is a Capnella tree coral from DFS ccgc section. The best thing for these is to make sure you have sufficient iodine levels for it to heal up. I fragged them 4 days before the trip so they should have been good and they were full spread in my tank a day after. I generally just push them down in a crevice where I want them and let them attach to the rock. They are very hardy so don't worry about taking them out of the water or even drying off the base to get a good stick on them. Worst case scenario I can cut another frag for you. Brent
its still attached, and i was thinking it was a type of tree coral i could be wrong though i got it from brent maybe i misunderstood what it was. and yeah i agree with the water the more the marrier, also i should have mentioned what glue i was using. its a super glue gel with cyanoacrylate as the active ingredient.
I have three questions
One that was a leather right?
Two has it turned loose yet?
Three how long has it been fragged
As a suggestion when using super glue it is better to dip the goral it salt water.
The dipping does two things it cools the coral off due to the chemical reaction of the glue and two the waier activates the glue for a better hold.and also always use superglue gel .
Joe please keep us updated on this frag I am Gerry interested in how it turnes out.
what you will need *you may not need the tweezers if you are fraging a big piece, and you will not need glue if your are chuck noris *
use the soft tissue scissors to cut a nice piece off your specimen.
make a pile of super glue big enough to incase the base of your frag.
put the base of your frag into the glue and move it around to activate the glue.
use the pipette to drip tank water over the coral. the water will speed up the drying of the glue and keep your coral nice and wet.
wait a few minutes your coral will not dry out and die in a few minutes, this will allow the glue to setup and secure your frag you dont want to have to redo it or loose your frag in a powerhead or overflow or even find it growing somewhere a year later where you dont want it.
i placed the frag plug in the sand where there is low flow and hopefully the sand will stick to the exposed glue and hide it.
thats it you did it! or atleast read it
thanks for reading my "how to" i hope it was helpfull i know it was very basic but you gotta start somewhere
