broke my new bubble coral, what to do?

Monkey55 · 01/13/2007, 07:10 PM

I was putting my new buble coral into my tank, It has 5 big main branches coming off of the LR chunk. On of the smaller branches busted off at the base when I was wedging it into the rock. The skeleton of that one branch is busted straight across. This one branch only represented maybe 5-10% of the coral.

Will the coral be okay?

Should I leave the busted branch in the tank? will it grow?

Thank you.

frederickk · 01/13/2007, 08:49 PM

Congratulation my friend you just made a frag of that coral. You can put it somewhere else in the tank and it will grow for sure.

Misled · 01/13/2007, 09:01 PM

Yep, now you've done it. Now you have Two! SWEET AIN'T IT?

Monkey55 · 01/13/2007, 09:05 PM

will it survive though. I read that when you frag bubble corals you have to SLOWLY frag them with wedges along fissures in the spine because just plain cutting them won't work. They apparentley are one of the more difficult corals to frag.

It it makes it, that would be sweet, I have a buddy that wants to trade a frogspawn frag for it.

01/13/2007, 07:10 PM	#1
Monkey55 Moved On Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Canada Posts: 445	broke my new bubble coral, what to do? I was putting my new buble coral into my tank, It has 5 big main branches coming off of the LR chunk. On of the smaller branches busted off at the base when I was wedging it into the rock. The skeleton of that one branch is busted straight across. This one branch only represented maybe 5-10% of the coral. Will the coral be okay? Should I leave the busted branch in the tank? will it grow? Thank you.

01/13/2007, 09:01 PM	#3
Misled RC Mod Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Pittsburgh, Pa Posts: 11,440 Blog Entries: 11	Yep, now you've done it. Now you have Two! SWEET AIN'T IT? __________________ Jesse I'm not saying I'm Batman. I'm just saying nobody has ever seen me and Batman in a room together.

01/13/2007, 08:49 PM	#2
frederickk Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 2,712	Congratulation my friend you just made a frag of that coral. You can put it somewhere else in the tank and it will grow for sure.

01/13/2007, 09:05 PM	#4
Monkey55 Moved On Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Canada Posts: 445	will it survive though. I read that when you frag bubble corals you have to SLOWLY frag them with wedges along fissures in the spine because just plain cutting them won't work. They apparentley are one of the more difficult corals to frag. It it makes it, that would be sweet, I have a buddy that wants to trade a frogspawn frag for it.