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Topic: lettuce coral Posted: August 31 2004 at 3:35pm |
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does anyone know how to frag lettuce coral? i bought connies and i'd like to do a frag for susan before the next meeting. thanks for all the help you have all given me----this club ROCKS
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Posted: August 31 2004 at 3:40pm |
Lettuce? Is that a Pectinia sp? If so, I would like to know too .
I would imagine you could just break off a chunk, but I'm not really sure 
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Posted: August 31 2004 at 4:04pm |
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thats what Connie told me it was. i"ll try to take a picture of it
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Posted: August 31 2004 at 5:01pm |
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Posted: August 31 2004 at 5:02pm |
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that picture sucks!!!!! i'll go get another one.
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Posted: August 31 2004 at 5:08pm |
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Posted: August 31 2004 at 5:31pm |
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here's some pictures
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Posted: August 31 2004 at 5:32pm |
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It's a "leather" type (also called Cabbage Leather Coral) so it frags easily with scissors and elastic, just like Mushroom Leather and Finger Leather. Go for it.
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Posted: August 31 2004 at 5:35pm |
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so Mark does that mean i can use super glue gel?
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Posted: August 31 2004 at 5:44pm |
Superglue is the thing for stoney coral and zooanthids because they have a hard base, but usually not as good for leathers as a simple elastic or two crossed over it in a hole or depression in the rock. For big pieces stick a toothpick through it into a crack in the rock or stick a toothpick horizontally with an elastic on each end, holding it to the rock.
The thing about them is they will expand and the elastic will cut through the flesh, so don't make it too tight, and place it in a hole so some flesh stays uncut. Does that make sense? I'd take of pic of one of mine but my camera broke.
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Posted: September 01 2004 at 7:02am |
Sinularia dura. Cabbage coral. Frag as Mark suggests.
I still wonder if anyone has fragged Pectinia sp. before?

Very similar to Mycedium sp. They're kind of right in between an LPS and SPS... exterior tissue like a Hydnophora, but lacking the individual small polyps.
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Posted: September 01 2004 at 7:17am |
Jeff you silly... its a cabbage coral. You were in the wrong section of the grocery store..
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Posted: September 01 2004 at 7:19am |
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Oh & yes. Just take a hunk and cut it off. Very easy. They are heavy so they dont float away like other corals or shrooms. Shove them in a whole & done..
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Posted: September 01 2004 at 9:05am |
As Jon said. Cabbage coral. Sinularia dura. I would frag as mark mentioned about, but just glue the cutting to a rock with scissors, because they have spicules that will easily attach to a rock with super glue.
I have fragged Pectinia with some success. In the past I have just cut/broke a piece off from the colony and the some frags did survive. A couple of time I have killed both the mother colony and the frag, so it is a little risky. I would only attempt it on a well established coral and only if you are willing to risk losing the coral.
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Posted: September 01 2004 at 9:18am |
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Thanks Jake. That's was what I was afraid of.
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Posted: September 01 2004 at 11:09am |
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thanks everyone I WAS IN THE WRONG PRODUCE DEPARTMENT!!!!!!!!
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Posted: September 01 2004 at 11:17am |
I WAS IN THE WRONG PRODUCE DEPARTMENT!!!!!!!!
That's ok, I am always saying Fox coral when I mean Colt and vice-versa, which makes no sense at all. I've got my animals mixed up so I'm making an effort to use proper names now.
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