Newbie wants to know...whats a "frag"?

[chasesng]

After almost 3 months of reading books and lurking in chatrooms, i've gotten pretty use to all this talk of 'frags'. Guess it means a small piece of sealife but would prefer your comments/interpretations as to definition.

next part of question, is how do you transfer them, ie

"owner takes a large knife and lobs of a section of the original plant, throws it in a paper bag, makes the drop at a designated locale, and the recipient dumps the contents into his tank?"

cant be that simple

 

[nanoreefer22]

A frags a fragment of a mother coral. It really is as simple and taking fragging sheers or scissors(depending on the coral), sniping a piece off, throw it in a bag with tank water(Not a dry paper bag), and taking it to another reefer. Then they acclimate and have themselves a mini version of the mother colony, that will grow into a mother colony and the process continues.

 

[Tonyscoots84]

i love fragsssssss. yea kris said it all..

 

[DEEPWATER]

So if you want to get technical ,the word "frag" is a frag of words Fragment or fragging .Freaking funny ,LOL
Had to say that

 

[noodleman]

A frags a fragment of a mother coral. It really is as simple and taking fragging sheers or scissors(depending on the coral), sniping a piece off, throw it in a bag with tank water(Not a dry paper bag), and taking it to another reefer. Then they acclimate and have themselves a mini version of the mother colony, that will grow into a mother colony and the process continues.

chop chop chop..... :sgrin:

 

[chasesng]

so how do you stick frags to rock?

is that what frag glue is and is for?

does frag glue eventually dissolve after the coral grows roots?

and if fragging is so easy, why bother to buy anything but the rarest in LFS.

 

[nanoreefer22]

Nothings rare, they're just really hard to get .

The glue doesn't dissolve, the corals don't have roots , they encrust(grow) over the glue. The glue hardens underwater and stays there.
-Kris

 

[noodleman]

frags are good to get more varity of corals for cheap, but i hate waiting for it to grow up

 

[nanoreefer22]

frags are good to get more varity of corals for cheap, but i hate waiting for it to grow up

Or waiting for them to open :icon16::yo:

 

[noodleman]

hey what can i say i'm a anxious person, and still waiting for some of the poylps

 

[Tonyscoots84]

IM still waiting to buy a frag of a froggie from mr noodleman....... lolz. take yo time dude.. lolz

 

[noodleman]

tony find me during the swap , not really frags since they'll be like 5 heads since flesh still connecting them

 

[DevIouS]

Hey.....
Me too!

 

[Josh]

It is that simple.

 

[Tonyscoots84]

lolZzZzZz

 

[Chiefmcfuz]

Frags-r-good!!!!!!