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Fragin' Favia

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#1 ·
How would one go about fragging a Favia/Favites sp. coral? Can you simply break it with a chisel or someting and then just let the tissue grow back over the newly exposed skeleton? What precautions should be taken and what if any recommendations do you have?

TIA

Andrew
 
#2 ·
Hey, hi Andrew


While I've mallet-and-cleavered my share of Faviid coral heads in my ne'er do well past...

I presently prefer to do things slowly:

Just provide a stable coloniztion surface and position it so that it abuts the coral colony's growing edge. Once tissue has deposited a 3-polyp (or more) skeleton on the target surface, snap the skeletal bridge. Takes as little as two weeks to as long as three months, with a healthy coral.

The amount of exposed skeleton is far less, and being in a high-growthrate zone, gets covered with tissue more quickly.

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