fragging chili coral

[free_loader]

i posted this in a another forum .. but so far no answer .. i i thougt i;d try again here


I have what i believe is a chili coral (ALCYONIUM PALMATUS) i can attach a pic later .. however he is getting rather large... so i was wonder is it would be possiblle to frag him into 2 .... and if so .. how?any suggestions?

 

[Ben1]

Most soft corals are easy to frag. I would try just using a razor blade or scissors and chop off what you want. Leave the original attached to the rock. Or split the rock it shares and split the coral where the rock breaks, this was both pieces are already attached and you just need to let the cuts heal.

I am not familiar with your paticular coral but ifits anything like most soft corals this will work.

 

[skylsdale]

I wouldn't touch a chili coral. I would leave it completely alone and just let it be happy.

 

[free_loader]

I wouldn't touch a chili coral. I would leave it completely alone and just let it be happy.

and i would like to do the same . however it is overgrowning it's area.. so i would like to move half of it to the other side of my nano ..

can a chili survie being cut into fragments?

 

[skylsdale]

Is this what you're dealing with:

The truth is, very few seem to be able to keep chilis alive for decent periods of time. So, if yours seems to responding very favorably to its current environment, I wouldn't do a thing to it. But...if you really feel like you must, I would drop a line to Eric Borneman over at the Coral Forum at ReefCentral. Don't want to offend anyone with the cross-forum recommendation, but I don't think many have experience splitting up this particular coral, and he would have the best advice for doing so.

 

[Ben1]

Look on page 298-299 in Anthony Calfo's "Book of Coral Propagation Vol. 1" for more information>


I don't have the book but some one here does and can tell you what he recomends.

 

[free_loader]

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Ben Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2004 11:48 pm Post subject:

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Look on page 298-299 in Anthony Calfo's "Book of Coral Propagation Vol. 1" for more information>

searched the library and local bookstores ... no luck ... can someone give me the reader digests version?

is it as simple as cutting off one of the fingers and glueing it to a piece of LR and placing it in low light low flow area? ... sorry to sound to noobish ... but i can only find limited info on the species