Fragging LPS coral

[dieselkeeper]

I'm looking frag a hammer and a gonipora. A coral saw is too expensive just to use it very little. Can a time saw work just as good?

 

[Mastiffsrule]

Evening,

Are we talking wall or branching hammer? Never did a Goni. What are you fragging for?

Did you mean tile saw but it autocorrected?

 

[dieselkeeper]

Coral are softball size. Taking up alot of room on the sand bed. Figured I could sell a few frags. Branching hammer. Yea, auto correct got me. Should say tile saw.

 

[Mastiffsrule]

Ah,

I have not tried a tile saw to frag. I would personally not try, maybe someone else can chime in.

Hammer corals I have used a bone cutter that can be obtained thru Brs as fragging tools.

https://www.bulkreefsupply.com/saltwater-aquarium-fragging-supplies/fragging-tools.html
There’s a fragging 101 also that’s cool.

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/fragging-101-i-hammer-coral.365049/

 

[Daddy-o]

I have fragged with a tile saw. The main thing I learned was to flip the coral over and cut from the backside. The water really tore up flesh right next to the blade if I cut them right side up.
Cheers! Mark

 

[Cdipasquale]

Your branching hammer you can just use some bone cutter or some kind of cutting pliers to cut the branches. And yes a tile cutter will work fine to clean up the breaks and to cut the goni. Back in the day before I purchased a bandsaw, we would just take a wood chisel and hammer to corals like that. Much less controlled but still worked out just fine.