So a while back I got some hammer coral frags from Paul, they were doing awesome how ever one larger multi headed frag needed to be moved to a better spot in the tank, being to large to move in one piece I decided to frag it.. the colony had 8 heads 4 on one side 4 on the other side in a Y shape, deciding to cut the Y like wish bone I cut down the middle under estimating how fragile the coral skeleton was the one side broke off and fell into the tank in doing so 3 of the 4 polyp heads basically detached from there skeleton... so the soft material of the polyp basically just fell off its skeleton. .. ugh it wasn't even a traumatic move is it normal that they come off that easy for future refrence??
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Hammer coral fragile failure
- Thread starter Jeremy Brito
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Yup that's basically way happened it was upsetting but lesson learned
I had someone who wanted one head of my hammer, so was using a saw blade, but wsnt cutting well so decided to just use pliers and snap it off. NOT!!!!
It crushed the skeleton into 4 or 4 parts.
Looked horrible and was worried it would kill all 12 heads.
Anyway- I ran out and got some Superglue Gel. Performed surgery. Piece by piece glued each part back together like a broken vase.
Bounced back nicely!
Amazed!
Should have made a video!
It crushed the skeleton into 4 or 4 parts.
Looked horrible and was worried it would kill all 12 heads.
Anyway- I ran out and got some Superglue Gel. Performed surgery. Piece by piece glued each part back together like a broken vase.
Bounced back nicely!
Amazed!
Should have made a video!