how do you frag trumpet coral?

[Nick's Reef]

I order some teal trumpets and wanted two tree head frags(my dad and i did a group buy) the guy only had a six head frag! soooooooooo i gota frag it. My guess is that you'd do it the same way as frogspawn or hammer just want to make sure.

[dshnarw]

I order some teal trumpets and wanted two tree head frags(my dad and i did a group buy) the guy only had a six head frag! soooooooooo i gota frag it. My guess is that you'd do it the same way as frogspawn or hammer just want to make sure.

 

 

yep - just cut or break the skeleton below the tissue.

[Nick's Reef]

ok. thanks for the help!

[cocojakes]

sorry to bring back an old thread, but I have a trumpet, when it was given to me it was a rather large, very dead looking colony, very spread out, with about 6 heads, each on their own long branch. The guy had given up on it, assumed it was a goner, so I got it thrown into a trade for free.

 

I got it home, split all the heads into their own single head frag, threw out the extra skeleton that was at the base, and put them in my tank. They all started looking way better after only a few days, and now, a few months later, each head has become 4-5 heads. My issue is that the heads are all so tightly clumped. There is almost NO visible skeleton between heads. They just keep growing out laterally, and not spreading out at all. Because of this, I really can't frag them, and they're each becoming larger and larger colonies. Is there anything that dictates if they clump, or spread out? Most trumpets that I see only have one or two heads at the end of each branch. Just wondering if theres anything I can do to encourage them to stop splitting, and start spreading apart

[NanoFever]

sorry to bring back an old thread, but I have a trumpet, when it was given to me it was a rather large, very dead looking colony, very spread out, with about 6 heads, each on their own long branch. The guy had given up on it, assumed it was a goner, so I got it thrown into a trade for free.

 

I got it home, split all the heads into their own single head frag, threw out the extra skeleton that was at the base, and put them in my tank. They all started looking way better after only a few days, and now, a few months later, each head has become 4-5 heads. My issue is that the heads are all so tightly clumped. There is almost NO visible skeleton between heads. They just keep growing out laterally, and not spreading out at all. Because of this, I really can't frag them, and they're each becoming larger and larger colonies. Is there anything that dictates if they clump, or spread out? Most trumpets that I see only have one or two heads at the end of each branch. Just wondering if theres anything I can do to encourage them to stop splitting, and start spreading apart

Pics? I personally love the clumped up ones! I am not sure what makes them more tightly packed but mine tend to keep growing out as they split. You could possibly pop off one of the smaller frags you clumped up with the others and see if different flow helps?

[jamescstein]

This is a guess.. Since the skeleton to grow out requires calcium do you have enough in your water?

[cocojakes]

calcium/alk/magnesium levels are all maintained slightly above normal sea levels. pH is a bit low, I tried putting one of the frags under an overhang so that it gets less might and might have to stretch for the light. hopefully that helps. gonna try and bring my pH back up too, as its consistently below 8

[CronicReefer]

calcium/alk/magnesium levels are all maintained slightly above normal sea levels. pH is a bit low, I tried putting one of the frags under an overhang so that it gets less might and might have to stretch for the light. hopefully that helps. gonna try and bring my pH back up too, as its consistently below 8

Do not chase pH with additives. You should only raise your pH by reducing the amount of carbon dioxide in the water.

[cocojakes]

Do not chase pH with additives. You should only raise your pH by reducing the amount of carbon dioxide in the water.

how does one go about doing that? I've never used additives to adjust pH, but have been considering it since its always so low. my KH was low, but now that i'm dosing, and have gotten it up to a steady 12 dKH, the pH is still staying in the 7.8 range

[CronicReefer]

how does one go about doing that? I've never used additives to adjust pH, but have been considering it since its always so low. my KH was low, but now that i'm dosing, and have gotten it up to a steady 12 dKH, the pH is still staying in the 7.8 range

Don't go any higher than 12 dKH. My pH stays around 7.8-8.0 with no ill effects on any of my inhabitants. Dosing to raise pH will only end up increasing your dKH with a very minimal effect on the pH. The easiest way to help increase pH is to either open a window or run your protein skimmer's airline outside. You can also add a CO2 scrubber to your protein skimmer air intake but this is really only necessary if a tank is kept in an area with poor air circulation (like a basement). Almost forgot to add, there is now a product available in america from Germany that uses a catalyst reaction with peroxide to help oxygenate the water (which could increase your pH by "pushing" the CO2 out of the water).

[LynkUK]

Do not chase pH with additives. You should only raise your pH by reducing the amount of carbon dioxide in the water.

 

+1

Agreed, if your alk and calcium levels are good you'll do more harm than good chasing your ph. Mine is consistantly averaging just 8 with a dip at weekends...thus pointing to high CO2 levels in the house. Increasing air flow in the house by opening windows (not possible during winter months), or installing a CO2 scrubber to protein skimmer are the only things that would raise my ph.