My First FRAG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

**Fishfirst** · 08-02-2005, 09:43 AM

Whoohoo! I accidentally created my first frag this week! Actually 1 of my hairy mushroom coral colonies happened to be sitting over another piece of rubble/liverock when it expanded, After a month of expanding and contracting it must have ripped on the edge of the rock and started to "fall off. This let the new piece graft itself onto a new piece of liverock and BAM! I got a new hairy mushroom coral! Now 5 colonies instead of 4! I think I'm going to try this again with one of my other larger colonies.

MyraVan · 08-03-2005, 03:21 PM

I'm so jealous. I don't know a thing about saltwater tanks, other than that I want one someday, chock full of anemones and corals and shrimp and starfish and snails and all the other weird and wonderful inverts (and probably a couple of fish as well). Maybe someday, years in the future, I will be able to say the same thing.

**TheOldSalt** · 08-03-2005, 09:45 PM

Congrats!
I've noticed that a lot of people get their first frags by accident. It happened to me, too, when I dropped a Seriatopora on the floor and shattered it, only to find that most of the little pieces survived.
It turns out that under good conditions corals are a lot tougher than we tend to think they are, so by all means, try fragging some stuff on purpose; you might get results you never thought possible. Don't skimp on the calcium and trace elements since they'll need them to heal.

**Fishfirst** · 08-03-2005, 10:10 PM

I have already set up another piece of hairy mushroom next to another rock. I think the same thing will happen within a few weeks.

wrasser · 08-11-2005, 11:57 PM

Hey First HOWS THE frags coming along?

**Fishfirst** · 08-12-2005, 12:17 AM

it looks like the piece I put next to the other rock is going to split as well. The other frag has actually got about 25% bigger since my last post.

08-02-2005, 09:43 AM	#1
Fishfirst Fish Guru Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Soon to be Northern Wisconsin Age: 24 Posts: 3,506	My First FRAG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Whoohoo! I accidentally created my first frag this week! Actually 1 of my hairy mushroom coral colonies happened to be sitting over another piece of rubble/liverock when it expanded, After a month of expanding and contracting it must have ripped on the edge of the rock and started to "fall off. This let the new piece graft itself onto a new piece of liverock and BAM! I got a new hairy mushroom coral! Now 5 colonies instead of 4! I think I'm going to try this again with one of my other larger colonies. __________________ 210 Gal Reef w/ 55 Gallon Sump/Fuge, 125 Gal Fish Only, 65 Gal Seahorse-29 Gallon Sump, 55 Gal FOWLR, 54 Gal Corner FW Community, 20 Gal Nano FOWLR, 55 Gal Piranha, 29 gallon QT "All the yellow tangs and clownfish in the world can't save you now! hahahah" Peter from Family Guy

08-03-2005, 10:10 PM	#4
Fishfirst Fish Guru Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Soon to be Northern Wisconsin Age: 24 Posts: 3,506	I have already set up another piece of hairy mushroom next to another rock. I think the same thing will happen within a few weeks. __________________ 210 Gal Reef w/ 55 Gallon Sump/Fuge, 125 Gal Fish Only, 65 Gal Seahorse-29 Gallon Sump, 55 Gal FOWLR, 54 Gal Corner FW Community, 20 Gal Nano FOWLR, 55 Gal Piranha, 29 gallon QT "All the yellow tangs and clownfish in the world can't save you now! hahahah" Peter from Family Guy

08-11-2005, 11:57 PM	#5
wrasser Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: on the reef Age: 41 Posts: 263	Hey First HOWS THE frags coming along? __________________ anything is possible, stranger things have happened

08-12-2005, 12:17 AM	#6
Fishfirst Fish Guru Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Soon to be Northern Wisconsin Age: 24 Posts: 3,506	it looks like the piece I put next to the other rock is going to split as well. The other frag has actually got about 25% bigger since my last post. __________________ 210 Gal Reef w/ 55 Gallon Sump/Fuge, 125 Gal Fish Only, 65 Gal Seahorse-29 Gallon Sump, 55 Gal FOWLR, 54 Gal Corner FW Community, 20 Gal Nano FOWLR, 55 Gal Piranha, 29 gallon QT "All the yellow tangs and clownfish in the world can't save you now! hahahah" Peter from Family Guy

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08-03-2005, 03:21 PM	#2
MyraVan Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Cambridge, UK Posts: 864	I'm so jealous. I don't know a thing about saltwater tanks, other than that I want one someday, chock full of anemones and corals and shrimp and starfish and snails and all the other weird and wonderful inverts (and probably a couple of fish as well). Maybe someday, years in the future, I will be able to say the same thing.

08-03-2005, 09:45 PM	#3
TheOldSalt Darth Ichthyos Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 4,255	Congrats! I've noticed that a lot of people get their first frags by accident. It happened to me, too, when I dropped a Seriatopora on the floor and shattered it, only to find that most of the little pieces survived. It turns out that under good conditions corals are a lot tougher than we tend to think they are, so by all means, try fragging some stuff on purpose; you might get results you never thought possible. Don't skimp on the calcium and trace elements since they'll need them to heal.

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