How do i frag a Frogspawn?

How do i frag a frogspawn? The thing that makes me wonder is that ever time i try to get it, is that it sinks in the rock that its on... And what would i use? How deep to i cut it? WHere do i do it at? Any help would be awsome! thanks:)

Sometimes you can break it by hand.
If it's too strong or I can't hold it without damaging the head, I use dikes/diagonal wire cutter or a Dremel to cut or score the skeleton for breaking.

I've had pieces where the whole branch shattered and the head fell into several pieces. Not to worry, any small bit of flesh left on a head can regrow into a full head and eventually an entire colony. Whoops, that is different than what Bob said about a single head. I used to make part of my living growing and selling coral.

Something not often realized is that the hydrated/fully expanded head can get cut on it's own razor sharp skeleton if removed from the water while fully hydrated. Before removing it from the water, shake it a little to make it retract. Also, I always remove Frogspawn and the entire the family of Euphyllia corals like Hammer and Torch, from the water in the upside down position to further avoid cutting damage.
Hope this is not TMI.

tfmreefs wrote: How do i frag a frogspawn? The thing that makes me wonder is that ever time i try to get it, is that it sinks in the rock that its on... And what would i use? How deep to i cut it? WHere do i do it at? Any help would be awsome! thanks:)

Mark Peterson wrote: ... Whoops, that is different than what Bob said about a single head. I used to make part of my living growing and selling coral.

Oops, I missed the part about it sinking into the rock.
Yeah the end of the branch/skeleton is constantly being built up at the tip by the growing coral. One head grows and branches out into two or three and those grow and branch out. These are some of the "reef building corals" of which you may have heard.
I'm standing with Bob. 

Edited by Mark Peterson - June 07 2012 at 7:31pm

BobC63 wrote: tfmreefs wrote: How do i frag a frogspawn? The thing that makes me wonder is that ever time i try to get it, is that it sinks in the rock that its on... And what would i use? How deep to i cut it? WHere do i do it at? Any help would be awsome! thanks:) Mark Peterson wrote: ... Whoops, that is different than what Bob said about a single head. I used to make part of my living growing and selling coral.   --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark, you crack me up   What I said  was 'different' because I read his post carefully and took note that he does not even know that the skeleton is part of the coral (he calls it the 'rock' the coral is sitting on) and because it sounds like he thinks you frag a frogspawn by removing the head off of the 'rock' and cutting it up like a Mushroom coral   And while you may someimtes be able to salvage cracked / broken heads, a much less experienced hobbyist (like tfmreefs) is going to end up with small pieces of frogspawn skeleton all over the place, some with shreds of live coral on them... most of which - if not all of which - will eventually die...   So I stand by my original comments.

"much less experienced, like tfm reefs" really??

Um I am guessing seems you're a teen and all these guys have been in this hobby for as long as you have lived that that is what he meant. You are less experienced than a lot of other reefers because of your age and how long you've been keeping reefs...

I don't think it was a personal attack. If you are inexperienced in what the skeleton of a coral is you are inexperienced in this hobby. Not just on a frogspawn coral, I am not trying to be rude and he was trying to say please don't do this as this will happen. Not saying you would but sometimes it's hard to read text and hear the tone it's used in.

It's settled then.
You're doing alright.
Asking questions is a good way to learn.
I've been at this hobby pretty intensely since 1993 but I still learn things from you and others every time I come here.

I'm not that old, am I?

Sorry, and yes I do now realize that you can't tell the tone of ssomeone else's voice behind computer/phone