Need help with unintentional frag please.

[triggakilla]

My Cowry detached a piece of cabbage leather(sinularia dura) I have no experience with propagating frags but I would like to save this coral. How should I go about saving it? The frag is about one inch in size.TIA

 

[Anonymous]

get yourself a rubberband and two small peices of LR,dead coral inert rock,etc. pinch the stalk of the coral in between the rocks and wrap rubberband around them. a week should be more than enough time for your coral to become fixed to rock.

 

[beerbaron]

that is good advice, just make sure you dont rubberband them to tight because corals will split easily under tomuch pressure

 

[triggakilla]

Thanks that sounds easy enough,I didn't like the super glue technique but I did read about putting it in the substrate until it attached to the gravel that sounded good but my tank is 30" deep and I would have had to put gravel in a bowl or something and set it closer to the light's. Thanks again.

 

[liquid]

I've also played Vlad the Impaler with some of my soft coral frags and had success with this attachment method. Basically, you find a piece of liverock rubble w/ some holes in it and use 1 or 2 toothpicks to "spear" the base of the frag onto the rubble piece. You're basically impaling the frag on the rock. 8O

Shane

 

[Anonymous]

Some doofus wrote up this "how to" guide. Features some pictures.

http://www.bostonreefers.org/library/articles/softfrag/

Good luck.

 

[triggakilla]

OK here's the finished product I broke a piece of dead coral in half and drilled a 1/8" hole through it , then passed a rubber band through the hole and tied the ends , this made it easy to open it up and place the frag between the two halfs.

 

[Anonymous]

congradulations! i don't believe i have heard of that one before! i have the utmost faith it will succeed. some of the best ideas are combining things that haven't been used together before. you should go into business.well done.