Do you enjoy fragging / propagating corals?

[revhtree]

Inspired from another thread!

Do you enjoy fragging / propagating corals?

 

[Mrfresh]

Love it. I love to chop up a chalice and see it in a few growing over the glue.

 

[Mike J.]

Actually my wife enjoys fragging. So, on my way out I'll say something like, "I think we should frag that Euphyllia." She takes pride in her frags and she's actually very good at it. Her name on our local forum is fragginmama.

 

[Mr. E Wrasse]

I think its fun because you can frag and watch new colonies grow from just a single polyp or eye

 

[redtop03]

my frags have all been accidental and I didn't perticularly enjoy it, but seeing the new frags grow into new colonies is very rewarding, so I don't really know which to choose in the poll LOL

I guess I'll have to answer YES

 

[wyoreefer307]

I love fragging corals. To be able to watch a new coral grow or even trade the frag and have a friend enjoy the coral is awesome.

 

[Derbird]

I do enjoy fragging up my zoanthid corals. For much of the same reasons. Seeing it grow and thrive and being able to share and trade with friends. That being said though I have yet to be brave enough to cut up living tissue. I have a Sinularia leather that is almost two feet across that is in need of it. But the though of cutting off an arm creeps me out lol.

 

[Genesis Corals]

Fragging is fun, but getting new frags in trade for yours is even better.

 

[duke4130]

I love to grow frags from single polyps or eyes.... But fragging myself....LOL...I hate it.... A slip of the scalpel and chopped 4 clementines right in half and cut my finger... I always freak out that I am going to kill the colony.

 

[Eienna]

I think its fun because you can frag and watch new colonies grow from just a single polyp or eye

+1 to watching frags grow! I must say I've not yet done any cutting so I couldn't speak for that part.

 

[Emoney]

I feel fragging is therapeutic. helps relive stress and forget about life's troubles.

 

[racer14j]

its a good way to spend a Friday night. plus it has helped pay for my next tank

 

[Dtech07]

Very enjoyable indeed! I treat my tank like I do my outside garden, the only differences is I save EVERYTHING from my tank and only a few things from the garden. But it's amazing how when you frag something how it propagates faster and fuller.

 

[shred5]

Not at all :tongue: that's why I just set up two frag tanks in the basement.

 

[kes]

fragging is fun and helps offset any costs associated with our hobby and..........new purchases lol

 

[Duffam3434]

fragging is fun and helps offset any costs associated with our hobby and..........new purchases lol

Very True!!

 

[johnanddawn]

I hate it, but find I have to do it all the time

I glue/putty everything down in my tank, so to frag something it usually means tearing the scape apart and then trying to get it back together
But because of growth, competition, overcrowding, etc i always find myself cutting something up

Sure the money is nice to help with expenses and new purchases but I like my corals big and after waiting a year or so to grow out a nice colony of something, I just hate to have to cut it.

Sps aren't bad cause you can just reach in and snip a branch here or there and they quickly regrow, but for me to cut zoas that have spread all over the rock it is a huge pain

But Because I hate corals over growing and killing each other even more - I am forced to frag

 

[StevenBell]

I enjoy it quite a bit!So much so that as soon as im done in the Marine Corps and with school,I plan on starting something like Tidal Gardens has going on!I find it so rewarding!

 

[DSP]

I love fragging,it's awesome being able to trade your frag for other frags

 

[Kawicivic]

The actual act of fragging and getting sticky fingers from glue and in and out of my tank so many times is not very fun. I voted yes, because I truly enjoy the outcome and growing of fragged corals. One of these days I will have a large shallow system to use as a frag tank and then maybe it will be better.