Frag to propagate?

[Aquattro]

Any damaged area (in SPS anyway) seem to grow quicker. I'll often shape a coral by nicking a branch with my cutters causing a new branch to sprout from the spot damaged.

[asylumdown]

Originally Posted by Aquattro

Any damaged area (in SPS anyway) seem to grow quicker. I'll often shape a coral by nicking a branch with my cutters causing a new branch to sprout from the spot damaged.

I wonder if the growth factors that are triggered to repair the coral tissue cause a flush of growth that just ends up turning in to a new branch? Man the things I would study if I could get a PhD in whatever I thought was cool and not the things that I think would have some sort of market value...

[SanguinesDream]

What about for zoas? I've got frags of 7-10 heads and the wisdom was to cut them down to 2-3 and the plug the cuttings thereby encouraging the growth on the original frag and then buds off of the cut and plugged ones.

Man, I'm just so happy that they reach those numbers, I get would get nervous cutting them down to just two or three to encourage growth.