Fragging Nepthea in tank

[Rob Pirro]

Anyone ever frag a nepthea in tank? I have 2 large colonies and need to cut back or remove altogether. sps dom with zoas, palys - 1 lord, 1 blasto, 1 lobo

 

[Jbell370]

Yep, I just cut a branch but I also run plenty of carbon.

 

[Rob Pirro]

That's what I'm planning on doing too. Any coral/sps problems? I'm thinking about cutting the nepthea back slowly, maybe a branch every few days to limit toxins in the water; compared to all at once. Also, going to incorporate water changes for some dilution. Good plan? Or am I over thinking this.

125gal Tank: Planning on 5gal water change 1-2 hrs after fragging. Don't want to throw chemistry off by water changing excessive volume every few days. Just enough to help the carbon out.

 

[PicassoClown04]

I chop out all the Nepthea I want to get out in a huge chunk. Then frag it into smaller pieces outside the tank so it doesn’t put slime in the water. Throw the pieces in a cup with some rubble, wait two weeks, and voila!

 

[Jbell370]

That's what I'm planning on doing too. Any coral/sps problems? I'm thinking about cutting the nepthea back slowly, maybe a branch every few days to limit toxins in the water; compared to all at once. Also, going to incorporate water changes for some dilution. Good plan? Or am I over thinking this.

125gal Tank: Planning on 5gal water change 1-2 hrs after fragging. Don't want to throw chemistry off by water changing excessive volume every few days. Just enough to help the carbon out.

My tank is AWC 5g a day, maybe it helps, but I just normally cut one big stalk, then cut smaller and put in my little tank. It grows like a weed, but the clowns love it. I've cut it in my 34 bio, 120g and now the 240, no ill effects.

 

[fachatga]

Same here. I cut off a few pieces. Run some carbon. Never had any issues. Have a frogspawn right next to it and it never even shows signs of stress from anything coming off the leather

 

[Rob Pirro]

I chop out all the Nepthea I want to get out in a huge chunk. Then frag it into smaller pieces outside the tank so it doesn’t put slime in the water. Throw the pieces in a cup with some rubble, wait two weeks, and voila!

So do you cut it at its base? Then frag the rest outside of the tank. Seems like a good way to go.

 

[Rob Pirro]

Same here. I cut off a few pieces. Run some carbon. Never had any issues. Have a frogspawn right next to it and it never even shows signs of stress from anything coming off the leather

Do you have any sps effected in the tank?

 

[fachatga]

I have some small barely larger than frag size sps and an encrusting montipora that’s grown a bit. Nothing got bothered in my tank. I only cut off a few pieces at a time. If you want to do a lot I liked the idea posed earlier about cutting a big chunk and cuttting that down in a separate container.

 

[PicassoClown04]

It doesn’t matter where you cut. Just make sure your cuts are straight and deep, ragged cuts or a chopping motion makes it difficult for the frags to heal. Sometimes I just chop a single long branch in half then cut that up like a hot dog

So do you cut it at its base? Then frag the rest outside of the tank. Seems like a good way to go.