Cutting down corals

[Gargamel]

I have a nano tank and one coral is doing very very fine. It's doing too fine and taking a lot of space in the aquarium and also taking light away from others. That coral is Euphillia paradivisa. is it ok if i just brake off couple heads and throw them away? I know this sounds horrible but i can't give them to anyone and i need more space for other corals. It is also starting to hit the pumps and part of a coral gets sucked in it.

[Elizabeth94]

You can certainly cut a head of two off. Make sure you are not cutting any flesh, only the skeleton. I would probably use a dremel tool if you don't already have a bandsaw.

 

Cant you just bring the piece to a fish store and get some credit for it? I would hate to see a nice chunk of perfectly healthy coral be wasted. Or put it up for sale for local pickup and let someone have it.

[jestep]

+1 on bring them to a LFS if possible. I'm assuming you live somewhere rural that there aren't other reed keepers around. Otherwise, I can't imagine people not being all over free coral.

[Mkus]

I cut mine the other day used a cordless dremel tool works great!

[cruiZe]

Don't waste frogspawn!! lol You'd be surprised how much it's worth when you find someone to sell or trade it to. I took a chunk to LFS recently and got a nice credit.

 

Shipping it is rough, and not cost effective for a few heads (needs to be overnight)

[hockeyhead019]

could always send em my way! lol

 

But seriously, what the other said, see what your LFS will give you for them. Even if it's just a couple bucks if it's growing that well then I'm sure you'll have enough to add up over time