OK our torch has gotten to big for it's own good so lets frag 'er!
here are some pictures of it so whoever wants to help figure the best place to start I'm all ears.
Most of the time folks use a dremel with a cutting wheel to chop it up. Works pretty well. You can also just use something like shears, but it will probably break in places you don't want it to.
I've always used garden shears. With a dremel I had trouble getting a good angle on the cuts. You should have seen the guy's face at lowes when I asked for something that could cut through bone nice and easy
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I hear you on asking that in Lowes. I get funny looks from people when I show up at their house for reef club meetings and I have bone cutters and scalpels with me as well.
found some discs and plugs at petland but still not EXACTLY sure where to cut or which is the best way to mount it. I have tried doing research on it but I have not been lucky on finding any sites with good info. I am however gonna chop up my galaxia over the next few days.
For torch corals, I usually just make short cups out of PVC and use them to hold the frags until I can get rid of them. When I mount them on live rock, I drill a hole in the rock just wide enough for the branch to fit into and put a ball of epoxy in there before inserting the branch. Some live tissue does live in the branch so cut as low as you can.
Scott!! just the man I needed to talk to! we were thinking of maybe getting a 150 rr can you let me know what you can get me one for? corner or center flow.
The garden shear idea might work if they are sharp as they are quite a bit longer than the bone cutter blade and can probably get around the entire base of the coral.
There were a couple reasons why I switched from using a dremel to using pruning shears. The angle that you are able to work with is limited by the body of of the dremel so I couldn't make a 90 degree cut. Unless you are working with a rechargable dremel, using water to keep the coral cool may be a darwin move. bzzzzzt. Electricity and water doesn't mix well. I could never find a cutting disc with a large enough diameter to cut all of the way through. I ended up cutting around the branch resulting in a sloppy cut. Here's what I use.
Unless you are working with a rechargable dremel, using water to keep the coral cool may be a darwin move. bzzzzzt. Electricity and water doesn't mix well.
LOL... yeah I should have mentioned that... or you could just pull the rock out of the water for the fragging (easiest IMO)
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