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My 1st Coral Fraggings


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Hi all, after reading up the materials on fragging, i've decided to propogate my own corals.

It started on:

9th April, 4pm.

Frag off branches of my 3 Sea fans.

After frag off branches, i used super glue to stick them onto small pieces of dry rocks.

9th April, 7.20pm.

9th April, 8pm.

My blue seafan has extended its polyps

9th April, 11.59pm.

By midnight, most of their polyps have already extended. No visible signs of shedding mucus or whatsoever. Will monitor their progress.

Feel free to give your comments.

Cheers,

bgrking

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Oops can anyone tutor me on how to attach the picture coz it clumps all attachments together. How to seperate them? Thanks!!!

My blue seafan is the nicest of the 3 of them follow by the red cactus seafan follow by some weird seafan bought from coral farm. In one of the picture, the seafan seems to shed mucus, may i know what is the possible cause? It's polyps were fully opened though.

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Hi.... you have choosen quite a difficult species of coral for fragging..... Sea fans are known to be difficult to strive well in our normal equip tank due to its non photosynthesis nature... something like the sunnies which require us to feed them but more difficult in sea fans case 'cos their "mouth" are fairly small and hence take plankton and zooplankton in micro sizes. Nevertheless, since you have fragged them, here are some recommendation...

1) place those frags in a high flow area in a dimly lighted area to prevent algae growth on their body. If possible, do not on light.

2) high frequency of dosing coral food are recommended in dripping sense....

Do some DIY of IV style drip system in your fragging tank to ensure long hour of food available to them will ensure your higher success rate. Good luck and keep us posted on the progress.... :)

:) Greeting :)

Tank: 4' by 2' by 2' (CR antique)

Sump: 3' include 1' refuigm

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*Update

All the previous frags are still in good condition.

4 days ago, I managed to frag 2 more seafans.

Have been dosing liquid food every night without fail and placed all of them in contact with good flow.

Cheers,

bgrking

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every night dose liquid food. :rolleyes:

wonder what's ur water parameter.

are those taken from ur main tank ?

rocks seems very white. just be careful dun overdose and have a algae spike.

maybe u can start a seafan tank...all the diff. seafan. must be cool. :D

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hi tips for feeding seafan, mix normal flakefood and add vitamin supplement(seachem or other brand) and water, then squirt the paste onto the seafan, cheap and good food for them to grow! Tips from GARF website, specialise in seafan propagation. :)

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