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Yes, please and thank you!! :) The mushroom I butchered last week taking it off a rock is healing quite nicely, so I can imagine if it's done properly I'd end up with one heck of a frag!

Well...just going on what I've read and what I've been told. I could be wrong.

Okay, gimme a week, I'll have the Wife take pics when I frag some Zoas, a Ricordia, and some Pulsing Hand. That's all the Softies I have that require fragging right now.

You can snip it right off the rock, and the flesh left behind will become a new Shroom. The cutoff can be cut in four quarters, allowed to heal in a glass with rubble (in tank), and in a few weeks there should be four mostly healed Shrooms attached to the rubble. There's some finer points, I'll cover them in the upcoming thread.

you're meaning mushrooms, not toadstools right?

cuz I also got a large 12" toadstool I'll have to frag if I notice it growing. With it being that size, do I have to get some of the stalk with every piece? if so, some of them would be like 4" frags.

I got some forceps and some scalpals today. When i'm fragging, i'm gonna have somone handy, just so i can play surgeon and say "scalpal...forcep..." lol

It does help to have an assistant with big Corals. I was meaning Mushrooms, I've never Fragged a Toadstool. I have heard that when fragging any Leather, there is a greater risk of bacterial infection. If it's attached to a thin, and small enough rock or base, I would cut or break the base, and then set it in such a way that gravity causes a slow split. In this way, it heals as it is fragged, over a period of time. That's what I did with my Bubble Coral, I broke the base skeleton area, tilted it on it's side, and after a couple weeks, two good sized frags had dropped off, without breaking any bubbles.

i read the one method where you use zap straps "plastic pull ties" to slowly cause the leather stalks to split off. attach a strap around each branch you want removed, then each day, you tighten the strap. don't know how i'd do that with a toadstool though... maybe cut off the head slowly that way, then frag it up? I know that would be a LOT of exposed flesh if I cut the whole head off with a knife, with the stalk for the toadstool being 8-10" or so.

Joining the ride. Lots of good info so far.

Next time you're by, Sean, I'll show you my techniques. Super easy.