“Culling” Blasto Heads

[Jason boles]

Hey Yall!

I have been having some nasty thoughts.

Long version:

I purchased an all orange / yellow head frag of www og rainbow blasto. They must have cut the purple out because the next head it threw was purple.

I have read elsewhere that people constantly cut them on the purple to get it to grow larger. The prevailing opinion is the orange / yellow grows at a faster rate, and predominately new heads will be like the heads they grow from. So if you remove the red from around the purple by cutting you get more.

TLDR:

Can you cull / kill new heads that are next to the one you want if they are not the color you want?

The hope would be a larger spot of purple.

Thinking of possibly just stabbing unwanted heads in the middle as I don’t plan on removing it from the rock to cut it.

Attaching some iPhone pics.

Also, has anyone had the experience of a head starting orange yellow and morphing to purple!? Or they start out that way??

What are your thoughts!?

 

[SaltySqueeble]

That is an interesting idea. I think you would be better off trying to slice out the polyp with a razor blade to completely remove it. I feel, If you stab a polyp and just damage it, it could possibly cause infection and spread to other polyps.

 

[Jason boles]

So when they are cut / sliced are there not just some that are “in the path” that heal or die off later?

I’m just being curious. Not sure I could stomach doing it. I imagined like stab / scrap that polyp clean with the stabby tool.

Is it easy enough that you can just slice with a fresh razor blade???

I imagined wet band saw or dremmel tool.

 

[SaltySqueeble]

That’s a good question. Not sure. I haven’t fragged a blasto. They seem pretty soft but they do have a hard skeleton so could be hard to cut in the tank.

 

[Jason boles]

Yea. I just read up on fragging them and they are succeptablw to infection. I’m not going to mess with it. See what happens.

Can always pop it off and cut later with proper tool.

Was fun idea though! Still think with a good healthy specimen it would work on the small new heads.