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Anybody else have trouble mounting colt corals?
- Thread starter TomD
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Bass in pic swam away
Use a rubber band instead. Worked for me in the past.
From this:
http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2007-02/gh/index.php
I've largely abandoned the "cup" and "sewing" methods for colt coral propagation, as I've found them far too time consuming and prone to failure. Instead, I use a sharp razor blade to cut a lobe of the coral down to the base rock to which it is attached. I then cut the coral completely free from the main rock by cutting through the rock using a high-speed rotary tool with a diamond cutoff wheel. For most coral or calcium carbonate based rocks, this should not be difficult to do. If the fragment with its small, attached rock is heavy enough to maintain a stationary position in your tank's current, the fragment can immediately be placed back into the tank and allowed to heal. Alternatively, the fragment can be secured to a larger rock with cyanoacrylate glue, or putty epoxy (see this article for proper use and precautions for using putty epoxy). I usually try to choose a rock substrate that is soft, porous and easy to cut though. That way, in the future, when the small fragment is again a large colony, the fragmentation process will go smoothly. If the piece of rock still attached to the coral is small enough, you might be able to drop or glue it into a hole bored into a rock. Such a hole would need to be large enough so that, initially, the coral can receive good water motion around the areas that need to heal. Eventually, the coral's tissue will grow sufficiently to attach to all sides of the hole, and can be propagated again. Once a fragment is cut free from the main rock great care must be taken to handle it as little as possible. Colt corals tend to pull away and detach from whatever substrate they are on if they are handled excessively. Using the method just described I've successfully fragmented a single colt coral into seven separate colonies in one session.
http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2007-02/gh/index.php
I've largely abandoned the "cup" and "sewing" methods for colt coral propagation, as I've found them far too time consuming and prone to failure. Instead, I use a sharp razor blade to cut a lobe of the coral down to the base rock to which it is attached. I then cut the coral completely free from the main rock by cutting through the rock using a high-speed rotary tool with a diamond cutoff wheel. For most coral or calcium carbonate based rocks, this should not be difficult to do. If the fragment with its small, attached rock is heavy enough to maintain a stationary position in your tank's current, the fragment can immediately be placed back into the tank and allowed to heal. Alternatively, the fragment can be secured to a larger rock with cyanoacrylate glue, or putty epoxy (see this article for proper use and precautions for using putty epoxy). I usually try to choose a rock substrate that is soft, porous and easy to cut though. That way, in the future, when the small fragment is again a large colony, the fragmentation process will go smoothly. If the piece of rock still attached to the coral is small enough, you might be able to drop or glue it into a hole bored into a rock. Such a hole would need to be large enough so that, initially, the coral can receive good water motion around the areas that need to heal. Eventually, the coral's tissue will grow sufficiently to attach to all sides of the hole, and can be propagated again. Once a fragment is cut free from the main rock great care must be taken to handle it as little as possible. Colt corals tend to pull away and detach from whatever substrate they are on if they are handled excessively. Using the method just described I've successfully fragmented a single colt coral into seven separate colonies in one session.
