So i'd like to try to frag my 3 mouth green florida ric and ran into a few bumps.

1) hes really tightly bonded to a very small piece of rock, so its practically impossible to get between the rice and the rock with a razor to split its footing on the rock, would it be safe to try to force peel it off?

2)hes a pretty small guy too, (like the size of a quarter) if I miss one of the mouths while cutting, will it die?

wouldnt you cut inbetween the mouths so you have a mouth on each frag? o | o | o <-- lines=cuts
i would cut the polyp down to the foot then cut the small rock with cutting pliers.
i would not try to peel it off the rock as it might damage it. HTH

COULD NOT HAVE SAID IT BETTER

yep junyoungmin did a great job explaining it. But to answer your question, if you miss one of the mouths it will be fine, it will always grow a new one, well at least thats what has always happened for me.

junyoungmin great response

there is not much else you can do

make the incisions stated above. Then like he said use wire cutters, or hammer + chisel.

The above will work too

Never done it this way but maybe needle nose pliers to hold the small frag and a dremmel after you sliced them but its probably best to let the cuts heal then do this at a later date so you don't stress it too much

I use a diamond tip dremel wheel and cut through the ric and the rock in one shot. Two cuts and you should have three rics already mounted on seperate rocks.