can i cut the rock?

im having trouble with these torches thati have.i have 2 on one piece of rock very close and they keep stingy each other and closing and i wanted to know if it was possible to cut the rock without killing the coral and if so should i remove the whole coral out of the water to do the cut?


ps:all of you with cyano issues go ahead with the slime away works perfect.all my cyano is gone.not one bit left.

 

sounds abit odd ,
I dont think that they would be stinging one another!!
But if you want to split the rock it should be ok Id think?

 

Hey so the ultra life slime remover worked for you too that's great I told you so. karma to you ;D;D

 

well it just balls up as if it were sick everytime i the other one touches it.so im guessing its that.


yes it did jimmy.best product ever for an aquarium.

 

Torches...can't really...sting eachother?

How long have they been in the tank, and where in respect to height and flow?

 

well the flow hits the higher one more than the little one but i figure they dont open up big due to their tentacles right nex to each other and the lower one shrivels up when the higher ones tentacles hit it.

 

could they just be closing because they are touching each other, if anything even lightly bumps my zoas they close, but then again they touch each other all day with no closing, if you want to split it, Id put it in a bucket weith enough tank water to cover them and split the rock with a sharp chisel and a hammer, probablly break with one sharp blow...

 

Are you sure that they're both torch corals?

 

yea im sure lol they are my favorite coral. i know it like the back of my hand. lol

 

torch corals dont sting each other

cutting corals is called fragging, use a dremel or rotozip to cut the hard stem ( which is basically like bone structure ). then use gel crazy glue to attach to a piece of rubble. and now you have two.

sps fragging is the same way but with a pair of cutting pliers