Question regarding Candy Cane Coral

[bubblepuffer]

Hi I got a candy cane coral with 4 heads that branch out from a single skeleton/branch... is that possible for me to cut that bottom branch a little shorter. It's kind of too long and hard to stuff it into rock or sandbed.. it make the 4heads very unstable staying on the top because of the tallness of the branch.. I am new to Coral so I want to find out is it safe to cut the bottom branch a little shorter.

Thank you

 

[Anonymous]

I had a pair of single polyp "drops" of a nice lime green that a fellow reefer gave me (along with her old 72g bow and stand - yes, a very nice, generous friend!)

I accidentally crushed one of the polyps trying to wedge it into a crevice in the rock instead of super-gluing it down like I should have.

Fast-forward 6 months.... - No way I could tell you which of the two clusters is from the polyp I crushed. None at all.


I say go for it!

 

[brandon4291]

Grateful I've split mine too accidentally and I hate that especially with the rarer green/electric yellow ones! I found a cutting technique that really works, because I use these types of coral very heavily in my picos I often have to cut the skeleton off just below the polyp head. it splits 100% of the time when it's being cut this short if you don't cut a ring around the area you want to separate, cutting the ring further and further until it breaks off cleanly. if you try to make one smooth pass, it'll split on the last 1/16th inch. nothing beats a high-speed dremel tool for these cuts, once it's perfected you can cut just below the polyp flesh and not split the skeleton up through the center.