Made 1st Frag - Aquarium Advice

mandown123 · 05-12-2008, 10:59 AM

I was caring for a friends rock that has green zoos and big brown pallys on it. He had bought an angel fish that was eating it to death, so he gave it to me to watch over.

It grew like wildfire in my tank, but then his angel died so he is taking it back - so i needed to take me a piece of the action as a fee! lol.

I never made a frag before so I was kinda nervous I would mess up. I got a piece of rubble out and dried it, then i got the polyp rock out and found a cool little bunch and took a razor blade and scraped the soft rock off from under the zoo group.

Then i pasted this rock shaving onto the other rock and viola!

The zoos were opened up by about 30 minutes later, so i guess it was successful.

I'm sure this is no big deal to ya'll but I was pretty proud of myself lol. I'll be even more proud of myself if it starts spreading lol

**roka64** · 05-12-2008, 11:03 AM

Congrats! Do you have any pics?

mandown123 · 05-12-2008, 11:07 AM

no... ill take some later and post new tank shots. i have a hard time getting my camera to the right settings so who knows if i'll be able to get a shot of the frag.

my tank finally looks decent so ill post some shots

cmor1701d · 05-12-2008, 01:10 PM

Congrats on your first succesful frag!

**melosu58** · 05-12-2008, 05:16 PM

Sounds like a successful venture. Congrats

mandown123 · 05-13-2008, 01:30 AM

bad pic, but you can tell they're alive at least heh

tawolcott · 05-20-2008, 08:12 AM

Interesting video in how to frag different species of corals.

http://www.wax32.com/videos/borneman.wmv

clearerphish · 05-20-2008, 10:39 AM

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Originally Posted by tawolcott

Interesting video in how to frag different species of corals.

http://www.wax32.com/videos/borneman.wmv

What an excellent, informative video. Anyone who ever plans on fragging corals should watch that. Thanks so much for posting.

tawolcott · 05-20-2008, 11:11 AM

I thought the QnA at the end was informative as well, esp concerning the redbugs

**Ziggy953** · 05-20-2008, 01:42 PM

How did you attach them to the rock?

05-12-2008, 10:59 AM	#1 (permalink)
mandown123 Aquarium Advice Freak Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Staten Island, NY Posts: 297	Made 1st Frag I was caring for a friends rock that has green zoos and big brown pallys on it. He had bought an angel fish that was eating it to death, so he gave it to me to watch over. It grew like wildfire in my tank, but then his angel died so he is taking it back - so i needed to take me a piece of the action as a fee! lol. I never made a frag before so I was kinda nervous I would mess up. I got a piece of rubble out and dried it, then i got the polyp rock out and found a cool little bunch and took a razor blade and scraped the soft rock off from under the zoo group. Then i pasted this rock shaving onto the other rock and viola! The zoos were opened up by about 30 minutes later, so i guess it was successful. I'm sure this is no big deal to ya'll but I was pretty proud of myself lol. I'll be even more proud of myself if it starts spreading lol

05-12-2008, 11:03 AM	#2 (permalink)
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05-12-2008, 01:10 PM	#4 (permalink)
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05-12-2008, 05:16 PM	#5 (permalink)
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05-20-2008, 01:42 PM	#10 (permalink)
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05-12-2008, 11:07 AM	#3 (permalink)
mandown123 Aquarium Advice Freak Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Staten Island, NY Posts: 297	no... ill take some later and post new tank shots. i have a hard time getting my camera to the right settings so who knows if i'll be able to get a shot of the frag. my tank finally looks decent so ill post some shots

05-20-2008, 08:12 AM	#7 (permalink)
tawolcott Aquarium Advice Freak Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Tired of the mod power plays; gone to another forum Posts: 261	Interesting video in how to frag different species of corals. http://www.wax32.com/videos/borneman.wmv

05-20-2008, 11:11 AM	#9 (permalink)
tawolcott Aquarium Advice Freak Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Tired of the mod power plays; gone to another forum Posts: 261	I thought the QnA at the end was informative as well, esp concerning the redbugs

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