Toadstol - how to frag it?

sebastian · 09-27-2007, 10:02 PM

i have nice toadstol coral and i'd like to frag it....what should i cut out.....leg or disc??? any other things importent i should be aware of????

Dentoid · 09-27-2007, 10:55 PM

My understanding is you can cut anyway you like and glue the frags to rock. Any part of it can regrow a new toadstool. From Eric Borneman's book, "Aquarium Corals-Selection, Husbandry and Natural History",

Quote:

"Sarcophytons are extremely "cuttable". All sections of the coral are totipotent, meaning that a slice of the colony attached by glue or banding to a substrate can reattach and form another complete colony fairly quickly."

Woodstock · 09-27-2007, 11:07 PM

Make sure you provide good water flow after fragging to keep the wounds clean. Also, they will take a week (or more) to attach to the new surface so be very patient.

sebastian · 09-28-2007, 12:12 AM

thx , i'll try tommorow

fish wilson · 11-02-2007, 10:30 AM

the best way to frag a toad is cut the top off leave the stump it will rejuv. then take the cap and cut into pie peices. glue to plug. put in high flow add lugols iodine for healing. thanks fish

PEMfish · 11-11-2007, 01:02 PM

I`v heard to use super glue, is there any that I should watch out for? Can you glue under water, if not how long do you have to hold it out of water?

hma · 11-11-2007, 01:19 PM

How long does it take to ebb on a reef roof? .......... some hours !

How long must often corals live without water ....... ditto ..some hours !

How long does it take to fragging. ........................ 15 min.? 30 min.? or longer ?

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Woodstock The Wand Geek was here. ;) Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: North Carolina Posts: 21,673 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: Toadstol - how to frag it? Make sure you provide good water flow after fragging to keep the wounds clean. Also, they will take a week (or more) to attach to the new surface so be very patient. __________________ ~Doni Marie~ *GOT ICH???* ~120 Reef Chronicle ~ *~29 gal QT/Hospital tank~* *~3 gal Pico~* "Energy and persistence conquer all things." Benjamin Franklin __________________________________________________ ______________________________________________ 120 mixed reef, dual Reeflux 10k 250 MH, dual Actinic t5s,AquaController III, ASM g3, 2x Korallia #3, Mag 9.5 return

09-28-2007, 12:12 AM	#4 (permalink)
sebastian Sea Pen Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: lake zurich, il Posts: 316 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: Toadstol - how to frag it? thx , i'll try tommorow __________________ Sebastian member of CMAS 125G AGA + 30G sump (home made) 500W MH + 260W PC light Wave 2K (4,000 g/h), mag-drive 12 (1,000 g/h) Euro reef skimmer Hammer corals, zoo's, green star polyps, neon green button polyps, blue acro, green staghorn, frogspan, leathers, xenias, 100's mashrooms, ricordias, fungias, green oxypora, neon green hydropora, snake polyps, brown Caribbean zoanthid (palythoa carribaeorum) regal tang, yellow tang, six line wrasse, cleaner wrasse, (2) lyretail anthias, eibli angel, ocellaris clown

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