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Suzy
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Topic: I love Blastomustas! Posted: March 16 2003 at 9:39am |
Hi,Guys (esp Steve,'cause I know you have made blastomustas before). Can anyone tell me an easy way to make new baby blastos? I have one I can take out o' the tank,but one that is so attached to it's home. I cut off a polyp and threw it in the sump,now I can't find it.The mama didn't care.though.Good thing,'cause she's one of my favorites (Can you guys tell the gender of your stuff?).Thanks,Suzy(AKA sun polyp goddess)
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Posted: March 17 2003 at 11:27am |
Suzy and anyone who is interested. I generally use scissors to frag my blastimosa. The cut that I make usually will include a few heads. I then cut the cuttings into groups of approximately 3 heads that are still attached by the calcium part of the coral. I say approximately since it is just a matter of preference and also some of the heads that are cut may possibly not be entire heads. I then super glue the cuttings to the rock. The glue secures the bottom of the cutting to the rock. I also glue around the parimeter of the coral where the white calcium part of the coral is exposed down to the rock so that it covers the wound. The wound covering technique part of the process was taught to us by Jake Pehrson at a WMAS meeting when he taught us how to glue hard corals. He also taught us that the wound that is left on the coral that was cut from will heal on it's own.
I have also glued single heads to rock, you just have to be more patient while you wait for them to grow out. I have used tweezers occasionally to break single heads off. Be careful though it's easy to smash the heads using this technique.
Sometimes when fragging these corals there will be fragments of the coral that are very small or not entire heads. I have glued these to rock and they will grow into full heads and eventually grow into full bodied and pleasing tho the eye blasimosa coral.
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Posted: March 17 2003 at 11:36am |
Blastimosa continued......
I would also like to add to the previous post that blastimosa seems to like a lower output of light. They do pretty well under power compacts. If you have halides though you may need to tuck the blastimosa under some cover from the light.
What kinda freaks me out is that with the 26 watts of power compact lighting that I use in my 10 gallon tank the blastimosa seems to do better than in the 150 watts of lighting in my 72 gallon tank.
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Posted: March 28 2003 at 10:55pm |
sjlopez39, I have had better luck with my blasto frags in my 5 gallon with 13wPC then in my 10 gallon 55w PC. Maybe the blasto is sensitve to intense light?
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Posted: March 29 2003 at 1:29am |
pistonfister- I think your right. The blastimus does seem sensitive to intense light.
Suzy- Have you tried fragging your blasto yet?
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Posted: March 29 2003 at 3:41pm |
Hi,Steve! I tried once.I just cut off a piece and threw it in the sump. Haven't seen it since! I was going to try again after I read your post, but got distracted. I will try again tonight. I can use it to distract me from that other distraction! Thanks,Guys. Suzy
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Posted: March 29 2003 at 5:18pm |
Suzy let me know how it goes. If you want I could come over and frag one for ya. I haven't seen your guys's tank for eeons.
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Posted: March 30 2003 at 8:08am |
Thanks, Steve. I tried to cut off a head and glue it to a rock. It let go! Dang it! I can't take the mama out of the tank. It's on a major portion of structure! Do I need to sneak up on it and get more of the base? Suzy
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Posted: March 30 2003 at 5:13pm |
Suzy-You want to get some of the hard calcium base, mabe about an 8th of an inch or something like that. You don't need to worry about sneaking up on the coral though. Infact I prefer the soft part of the coral to be recessed inside of the crown. This makes it easier to see what I am cutting. Also any remnants from the cutting can be glued and probably will grow out.
I once made a 4 head cutting and some how there were about 3 partial heads that I could have easily wrote off as trashed. I glued them to rock now they are growing out just fine. I thought one of them had died so I attached a star polyps on top of it that didn't do well. When I peeled the star polyps off, the blastimosa was still kicking and looked better than ever.
Keep trying, I know you have a knack for attaching coral. Once you get the hang of this coral you wont believe how easy it can be.
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