Need some help. I have never fragged anything before. I have this Hammer Coral that started out as one head but as you can see has many now, its full and cant really grow anymore i don’t think. 1. Should i frag it? 2. I don’t have a band saw like i have seen in videos, are there other ways to frag this?
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Beautiful coral! The should you/shouldn’t you frag it decision is up to you. If it is too big and you need the space then I would do it. If not, I’d say let it grow.
Branching hammers are fairly easy to frag thankfully. You can use a cutting disc on a dremel and go across the bottom of a branch. Sometimes you can break one off too but I’d advise against that.
Go order yourself a dremel from Amazon with a diamond cutting blade, some gel super glue from the dollar store and lastly some frag plugs or ruble rock to glue your new frags down. But also you could just let the hammer coral grow large they will grow exponentially if you let them just grow.
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Agreed @302reefer! That’s the setup that I use too. Sometimes I find you have to cut from an awkward position due to how small the blade is, but never impossible. I found that letting my hammers grow out to at least 15 heads before fragging gave me the best results. I could cut off 5 heads and make a few frags out of them and the colony would recover in a couple of months and usually with more full-sized heads. I got to the point where I could reliably frag off about 5 heads a month.
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This is the real-deal Dremel diamond cutting wheel. There are plenty of cheap knockoffs too. Not sure how reliable they are.
I have that exact blade for my dremel. It works very well for fragging easily fractured LPS. I would advise wearing eye protection and a dust mask just to be safe.
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Awesome thank you. I was able to move the rock its one to keep letting it grow. But will order that for down the road.
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