Help: How to Frag a leather toadstool

[alfani]

I had my toadstool for about 1 year now, it's doing pretty well. It only have one head but I would like to frag it. How should I do it, should I just chop off the head and hopes it will grow back ...

 

[masterswimmer]

I had my toadstool for about 1 year now, it's doing pretty well. It only have one head but I would like to frag it. How should I do it, should I just chop off the head and hopes it will grow back ...

It's pretty easy actually.
Just remove the entire leather from your tank. Place the mushroom part, upside down on a cutting board. Have a bowl of your tank water next to the cutting board.

With the leather inverted on the board, take a very sharp (new) razor blade and cut out the perimeter of the toadstool. When you are done, you should have a 'donut' of your coral. Next, just slice the 'donut' into smaller pieces. 1" x 1" squares work well.

After chopping it up, put all pieces into your tank water that's in your bowl.

After the pieces have stopped sliming, just put the frags on a piece of LR rubble and wedding veil it in place around it, and secure the wedding veil with a rubber band.

DO NOT PLACE CUT UP FRAGS INTO YOUR TANK before allowing them to slime in the bowl of tank water.

It's actually very easy.

Russ

 

[reefman]

toadstool

just make sure a good water flow for the leathers n dose Iodine to prevent infections.

 

[cali_reef]

make sure you clean the oil off the razor before you use it.

 

[Chiefmcfuz]

I used a Pizza cutter it works well.

 

[marrone]

Check Garf web site as they have step by step fragging method, including pictures & video.

Look under the tabs on the side for:
The Frugal Reef and then pick Advance Sarcopython. You'll see some picture, diagrams and a video.

http://www.garf.org/