The next event for the Delaware Reef Club will be at The Fish Bowl in Dover on Oct 10th at 7pm. There will be fragging demonstration by Jon Gordon.
The demonstrations will include a little information about each of the corals including selections of healthy specimens, when and why the corals should be fragmented, safety precautions to follow, several techniques for fragging each coral, tools used in fragging, and several methods for attachment and mounting frags.
Snacks and refreshments will be provided and the event is open to the public. Make sure to check back to this thread to see which corals will be fragged.
I will not know exactly what I am fragging until closer to the event. I have been communicating with The Fish Bowl to see if they could bring in certain things which will work well for the demonstration. We will have to see what they were able to order and in what condition it is in.(For instance sometimes torch coral is easy to frag if it a branching form, but if its growth structure is more like a wall it makes it a bit more complicated)
I started a thread not too long ago to try to get some feedback from the members as well as far as what demonstrations they would like to see. (What to chop up, cut up, slice, dice, blend, or frag? ) If there is anything particular you would like to see feel free to post in that thread.
Ya i saw that thread but i didnt know what to post because everything in there i want to see haha…
It would be amusing watching you try to frag a wall… lol… and that will be fun… it will be a bit of a hike for me 1 hour… but i will be there … with the 10 bucks for a membership lol…
Oh and you asked how the raffle works. Typically we sell tickets for $1 each. No limit to how many you buy and since this is open to the public anyone that comes by is able to participate. At most of our meetings everyone who buys a raffle ticket ends up going home with something, but for this event it will depend on how many people are going.
As far as the corals go I will be doing some easy to keep corals and several softies for sure.
Typically when your raffle ticket is selected you get to pick from what is left on the table. First person whose raffle ticket is drawn gets to pick out of everything. We might switch it up a little bit at the event though. Maybe I’ll frag a coral and then have someone pull a ticket right then to break things up a bit. I’m open for suggestions.
as mentioned in the what to chop up thread i will be donating my sea cabbage coral as a easy leather for the chopping block. i know must of the older members have it but it is a great coral for newbys. low light demand and no special needs. i will also have a frag rack, frag tiles and worm traps to donate as well. i need to clean out my fish closet. see you all there.
ok… here is a tenetive list of what i plan on providing for the fragger! lol
couple misc shrooms
a colt or kenya tree
a branching euphyllia (not sure which one yet)
a few different polyp colonies
maybe some xenia, if i can get a piece big enough to frag by then
and 1 oddball for the guys who have seen the common stuff by now. i was thinking (with jons help) a purple gorgonian…
right now im trying to get a red and green monti to grow as one on a frag plug its been done before but i figured i would give it a shot ill take some pics and track the progress
ouch… not sure jon was planning on setting up the kind of tools to do something like that. ill check, but i think he was sticking mainly to “hand tool” type stuff.
As far as doing a brain coral like Favia or Favites that would be a very different animal. Completely doable in a presentation, but it is a lot more to sent up and show. As fishguy9 mentioned that would take it from a hand tool presentation to power tools. I’m not ruling it out yet and if there are more reefers who really want to see it please say so, but at this point I don’t believe we will get into it.
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u could donate me a branch of acro [/quote]
Would have to be a pretty hardy Acropora to withstand getting carried from your house to the LFS, then getting chopped up, then being sent off to other reefers houses. Now if you could work with the fish bowl and bring them a hardy specimen in the next week so it is fully recovered in their system that may be another story. It’s up to you, but it would allow us to get into a lot of additional fragging techniques.
