aviator300 Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 I just mounted a red Montipora cap frag fresh from my QT onto rock in my DT. I gave it a 5min dip in Seachem Reef Dip and proceeded to cut off the frag shaft and mounted it. I then noticed that the edges had been slightly damaged by either the dip, the cutting, or both. All of the main body (about an inch across) remains red and healthy but some of the edges look kind of ragged and are sliming. Should I leave it alone and allow it to heal or should i dissect the ragged pieces off. Thanks for any help you can give me.. AVIATOR300 Link to comment
NorthGaHillbilly Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 I'd leave it be, as long as your pretty sure its physical damage from getting it into the DT then it'll be fine. if its RTN then frag baby frag, in my experience. I just mounted a red Montipora cap frag fresh from my QT onto rock in my DT. I gave it a 5min dip in Seachem Reef Dip and proceeded to cut off the frag shaft and mounted it. I then noticed that the edges had been slightly damaged by either the dip, the cutting, or both. All of the main body (about an inch across) remains red and healthy but some of the edges look kind of ragged and are sliming. Should I leave it alone and allow it to heal or should i dissect the ragged pieces off. Thanks for any help you can give me.. AVIATOR300 Link to comment
farkwar Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 I wouldnt worry about it. I had one that broke into dozens of pieces during shipping. I put all the big pieces on frag plugs as suggested above. They have all about grown back together on the frag rack, and into the frag rack. The small pieces kinda blew around the tank and started encrusting where they landed. If you want some free, I have a bunch, if you pay shipping. Its kind of a weed coral, I think its pretty hard to kill accidently. This is like 5 frags of red monti cap grown back together. .. Link to comment
jservedio Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 Unless it is pests (montipora eating nudis), leave it alone - regardless if it is physical damage, STN, RTN, ????, or something else, at that size just leave it be. Monti caps are incredibly resilient (most resilient coral in my tank, by far IMO) and will bounce back as long as your conditions are even questionably stable. Even after being shattered into 8 or 10 pieces while stuffed in a cooler for 3 days with 20 other much more mean LPS corals being jumbled around in a U-Haul for 950 miles then split into 2 tanks, I didn't lose a single piece. Don't worry about it. Link to comment
aviator300 Posted August 5, 2014 Author Share Posted August 5, 2014 I currently have this post running also...http://www.nano-reef.com/topic/349666-do-you-think-my-montiporas-dead/?p=4799340 Link to comment
Skuba Posted August 5, 2014 Share Posted August 5, 2014 I bump mine with my flipped glass scraper now n then and glue the pieces to plugs but the edges slime a little too but heals up Link to comment
farkwar Posted August 6, 2014 Share Posted August 6, 2014 I currently have this post running also...http://www.nano-reef.com/topic/349666-do-you-think-my-montiporas-dead/?p=4799340'>http://www.nano-reef.com/topic/349666-do-you-think-my-montiporas-dead/?p=4799340 I wouldnt worry about it. I had one that broke into dozens of pieces during shipping. I put all the big pieces on frag plugs as suggested above. They have all about grown back together on the frag rack, and into the frag rack. The small pieces kinda blew around the tank and started encrusting where they landed. If you want some free, I have a bunch, if you pay shipping. Its kind of a weed coral, I think its pretty hard to kill accidently. This is like 5 frags of red monti cap grown back together. ..http://s1078.photobucket.com/user/RichardSperry/media/20140731_021028.jpg.html'> Link to comment
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