Fragging blasto?

[fishrdp]

I have a red blasto that I won at my first NJRC meeting. Just unsure how to frag this. Anyone ever done one of these before. Would like to make several frags and return to club. Phylis does the club sell frags? Can we purchase before you go to NY frag swap ???

 

[Phyl]

We've got lots of great stuff headed up to NY. We'll come home with either frags we traded or cash, so there's a good chance we'll come home with stuff too. We're hoping to bring some stuff home that we don't already have a ton of here in NJ.

I'd rather not sell from the current stock until after we get home from NY though!

Definitely grateful for you wanting to give some of those red blastos back to the club.

I have two different types of blastos here. One type (merletti) is more of a branching coral and you could snap off a few heads on that. The other type we have (welsi?) grows along the rock and you'd have to actually chisel a piece of the rock off in order to "frag" them. Can you tell which type you have? I don't remember where we got the ones we raffled at that meeting (Dan Oswari's?).

 

[fishrdp]

I have two different types of blastos here. One type (merletti) is more of a branching coral and you could snap off a few heads on that. The other type we have (welsi?) grows along the rock and you'd have to actually chisel a piece of the rock off in order to "frag" them. Can you tell which type you have? I don't remember where we got the ones we raffled at that meeting (Dan Oswari's?).

It is welsi on a frag disk ;D

 

[Phyl]

Oh that's easy. Break it in half. Chisel, dremel, ...

Then mount the piece you're keeping to a nice big rock!

 

[fishrdp]

Thanks Phylis, it was just 4 polyps at Dosarwi meeting. Totally incrusted frag disk now :-\but does not seem to want to jump over to rock it is on

 

[Absinthe]

I recommend a dremel with a DIAMOND cutting wheel for a few reasons.

#1 The standard Dremel cutting wheels are too flimsy
#2 The reinforced Dremel cutting wheels are too thick and remove large chunks of live tissue...not a thin cut
#3 Flying chips of rock can be dangerous

The diamond cutting wheel cuts thin and fast. Well worth the $14. Plus if you use it sporadically for cutting frags the wheel will last a very, very long time.

Be sure to wear eye protection