A Quick Fragging Question

[VictorMeldrew]

Hi all

As some of you might have seen in my journal, i have a leather finger coral that is splitting and fragging itself, i was just thinking, could i attach them inside empty snail shells and grow them on them. The first finger that fell off i wedged in a piece of LR and within days it was attached solid. If i attached them to the snail shell's i could place them on the substrate and save me buying small piece's of LR or breaking up a bigger piece. I do not want to keep the coral's and need to be able to remove them easy when i am able to find homes for them. Does the shell idea sound any good.

Thanks
VictorMeldrew

 

[BigC]

You can use anything you like mate, but they will be slimy so you may well have to use bands or superglue (not the best method) or cocktail sticks/bands.
I use hardened milliput for reef plugs. If I make up too much for a coral insertion I roll/flatten out the rest and make some plugs, around about 2 pence size.
I have used golf tees and rawlplugs.
Regards
BigC

 

[xxBarneyxx]

Yeah shells work but dont look so good when you need to attached them in a tank later on. Personally I just get a KG of base rock from the LFS and take a big hammer to it to get some smaller bits.

 

[VictorMeldrew]

Thanks for the reply's

golf tee,s and raw plugs, sounds very interesting i think i will use the empty shells if they fall off in the next few days, if they hold on till i get to the lfs i will proberly buy some base rock and break it up. What should i expect to pay for a kilo of that?

Thanks
VM

 

[xxBarneyxx]

Couple of £. Its not very expensive, much cheaper then LR rubble. Pretty much anything that is reef safe can be used but you also have to consider at some point its going to be put in a display tank and what a frag is attached to is probably going to be fairly visable.