Help me frag

I have started a 55 gallon and have a beautiful 29 gallon that has some great things in it. I need to know about fraging some polyps and pulsating zenia's. Any ideas without killing them all.

 

well xenia is easy, take the peice to be fragged out, pick a good spot to slice and just cut the stalk vertically top to bottom, then rubberband it to the rock you want it to attach to and put the rest back in your display tank

polyps i cant help ya with, what type of polyps do you have?

 

If you don't get enough info here on 3Reef,

GARF is best web source "cook book" I know of for web fragging.

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Book of Coral Propagation, Volume 1 Edition 2: Reef Gardening for Aquarists

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5.0 out of 5 stars A MUST HAVE !, January 21, 2008
By Chuck Russell "Rapscallion" (New York) - See all my reviews
The BOOK OF CORAL PROPAGATION Edition 2,is bigger and better then its predecessor! This new edition was rewritten to include even more information than the previous version. It is flooded with stunning photographs, updated techniques, and to top it off, it's published in a larger 8.5 x 11 format and HARD COVERED! Similar to the first edition, I also found that each chapter is written in an easy "laid back" conversational style, allowing for very quick reading and easy understanding much--like Calfo's speaking presentations. A must-read for new aquarists and pros alike.
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This is an excellent reference book for anyone who owns corals. I also have Borneman's and Sprung's Coral books (see links below), and between the three books I can find out most information I need on the majority of my corals. Anthony's book is newer than Eric's, and thus covers some information learned since then. The section on how to propagate corals is extremely useful, esp. as many corals grow big and need to be split. Yes, much of this can be looked up on the internet - but I believe having a reference book like this is MUCH more useful, and it is written in a great conversational style that makes it easy to read (it is not a dry textbook!) and understand, with lots of pictures.

If you are going to keep corals in your tank, or just want to learn more about corals, this is one of the best books to own! Thank you, Anthony, for writing this!

 

I perty much just pull them lose and rubber band them to a rock. some leathers I cut some off and rubber band those to the rocks as well

 

Softies all you do is cut them. Literally that's all there is to it. Find a spot and snip. Of course you have to get it to attach to a rock. For that get some small pieces of rubble, lay your cutting on the rock, and tie it around and around with fishing line. 2 weeks or so and if it hasn't slipped out then it should attach.

Polyps just grow on rocks so all you have to do it chop the rock in half. For my Green Star Polyps I just took a hammer and screwdriver to the rock. Simple as that.

 

cutting the xenia in half wont just kill it