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rufessor 
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Posted: August 29 2011 at 10:36am |
Is this possible? I have a really cool leather with a very very high density of polyps that loves my tank and we love it. But its a 29 g tank and will be too big soon enough to consider options. I dont really want to get rid of it and the rock its on, but I dont want to kill it in attempting to frag it.
Help please.
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Posted: August 29 2011 at 11:09am |
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Incredibly easy. I'll come over and show you sometime. Send me your info and I'll see when I'm free.
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Posted: August 29 2011 at 11:10am |
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You just need to cut it with a razor blade. What type of leather? They are usuly easy to frag. Just cut into peices and glue them to rocks and you will have ten leathers in no time
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Posted: August 31 2011 at 8:45am |
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Leathers don't glue too well, because the flesh just releases from the glue. I use elastics to hold pieces in depressions in rocks.
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Posted: August 31 2011 at 9:13am |
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what do you use and is it done,thanks
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Posted: August 31 2011 at 9:48am |
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Thanks for the info. I also had read that they were difficult to get to attach. Someone posted to another board that they set up a small plastic dish with coarse sand and put the frags in that on the sand. Place the dish in a low flow area or the sump and supposedly the frags will attach to the sand in a few days and then can be glued to plugs. I am not going to frag just yet as the leather is still ok but getting big. It's a pretty standard leather but seems to have a nice high polyp density whereas some others seem less dense but I have only ever seen a few and only have this one example in my history of reefing so it could be totally vanilla standard.
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Posted: August 31 2011 at 10:48am |
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What kind of leather? Is it a Sinularia(tree/finger), a Sarcophyton(toadstool) or a Lobophytum(lobbed/lettuce)?
I use a sharp scissors, dedicated to cutting soft coral. I place the cut piece of coral in a depression in the chosen rock. I wrap the elastic once, then twist it underneath to bring it back up to cross over the frag. The elastic cross helps keeps the piece from slipping out, though they sometimes do anyway as they expand.
Placing cut Mushrooms (not Sarcophyton which is also called Mushroom Leather) in a bridle veil covered bowl of rubble in a slow flow area is a good method but the three types of Leather coral will take forever to attach in that situation. The elastic which holds the cut piece of Leather firmly to the rock is the fastest mounting and attaching way I've found. It usually attaches within a week or two but the elastic can be left on it longer and easily removed by cutting and pulling off or through if the flesh has grown around it.
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Posted: April 21 2012 at 5:26pm |
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my leather toadstool had a bit dangling from him so i cut it off and let it set in the sand while it started to curl up to make a new stock then placed the peice on a rock and he is now stuck to the rock
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Posted: April 23 2012 at 6:05pm |
leathers are in my opinion the easiest to frag
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Posted: April 23 2012 at 6:55pm |
 napalm77 wrote:
leathers are in my opinion the easiest to frag |
+1 I would just cut the pieces that you want as frags, and rubberband them to some rubble or something for a few days, maybe a week or two depending on their size. It also may be a good idea to use mesh or some type of screen material to hold it in place as the rubberband could cut through the coral's tissue if it's left on too long.
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