my first frag

[uclacsnerd]

ok.. so it was an accident.. but I fragged my green branching hammer while I was trying to wedge back in place after it fell. The coral was doing great (doubled in size in about 3 months) but now I have 2 of them. It broke off on the stock at a good place but my question is this: do I have to do anything special now? Is the branch "dead" or did I hurt the coral?

at this point I'm just glad it seems to have survived its fall into my green LTA!!!

 

[fidojoe]

Sounds like the good kind of mistake! Hope everything works out withe the new frag!

 

[Icebox]

It sounds like it will be fine to me. Just gue it doen to a new home, and you should be all set. Congrates on your new frag.

 

[wooddood]

good luck with it.let us know how it does.

 

[uclacsnerd]

thanks guys. i just hope the LTA didn't do too much damage. a few of the "hammers" were actually popped and deflated when i pulled it out. the anemone wasnt happy either... i ordered some aquastix to prevent this from happening again.

 

[ReefLady]

Keep an eye on that damaged hammer, any HINT of brown jelly and I would start dipping it aggressively.

I had a torch fall on a brain while I was out of town (GF said "it fell but it looked okay on top of the brainy thingy.") and it was pretty much consumed in a matter of 72 hours.

Travis

 

[Cosmic]

I've had numerous occasions where my branching frogspawn (Close relative to hammer) would fall over onto my VERY aggressive Bubble Coral. Even after a few minutes, most of the flesh on the FS had disintegrated. I've found that any leftover tissue will normally be just fine if the tank is in good health, and that coral was in the same state (good health).

As T mentioned, keep an eye out for brown jelly infections, as they can obliterate a coral in no time. A lugols or Iodine dip is recommended if this were to happen.

As for fragging hammers, as long as you are breaking off whole branches, instead of splitting individual heads, the coral should frag without a problem. If you have to rend tissue to separate the branches, then it's not recommended you frag that piece just yet, letting it go until the tissue separates naturally, exposing bare skeleton. Otherwise the BJ infections are again a possible threat.

-HTH-
Cos

 

[wooddood]

thanks all good info to know.

 

[uclacsnerd]

follow up

hey guys-

thought you would like to know that both frags are healthy and seem to be doing just as well as they were before the "mistake." the aquastix is holding them in place now so they shouldn't have any more meetings with the lta. my maroon will apreciate that as well. thank you all for the advise. now on to some more fragging.. something for a beginer this time.. like shrooms...