Started the big cutback yesterday :
Using the toothpick method I was able to attach about half a dozen basically colony sized frags to plugs and they all seem to be holding so far. I also removed a bunch of pom pom xenia which is just floating around in my frag tank. I think eventually I am going to do a tank just with pom pom xenia. I may have an expensive Acanthophyllia, Goniporas, all kinds of stuff but I do still like the simple corals. Another coral I removed a lot of was the plain clove polyps and I moved the rainbow cloves which have never really grown much up to the top of the tank.
It's going to be a mess for a while but in the long term this will be an improvement. I'm going to try and find a few pieces of rock to add and maybe attach 1 or 2 to the overflow because the corner in front of the overflow has pectinia, hammer and elegance all touching each other..
Using the toothpick method I was able to attach about half a dozen basically colony sized frags to plugs and they all seem to be holding so far. I also removed a bunch of pom pom xenia which is just floating around in my frag tank. I think eventually I am going to do a tank just with pom pom xenia. I may have an expensive Acanthophyllia, Goniporas, all kinds of stuff but I do still like the simple corals. Another coral I removed a lot of was the plain clove polyps and I moved the rainbow cloves which have never really grown much up to the top of the tank.
It's going to be a mess for a while but in the long term this will be an improvement. I'm going to try and find a few pieces of rock to add and maybe attach 1 or 2 to the overflow because the corner in front of the overflow has pectinia, hammer and elegance all touching each other..