Fragging Hammer coral

[Der_Iron_Chef]

Looks like a wall hammer to me. Very pretty!

I got this from wetwebmedia:

"His method is to stretch a rubber band around the coral crossing the polyps where he wants to make the cut. In a week or so, the polyps will recede from this point leaving open skeleton for you to make the cut without fear of damaging the polyps and risking infection."

Then he goes on to suggest you could cut through the calcerous skeleton using a dremel.

[Raven2k]

Originally Posted by Der_Iron_Chef

Looks like a wall hammer to me. Very pretty!

I got this from wetwebmedia:

"His method is to stretch a rubber band around the coral crossing the polyps where he wants to make the cut. In a week or so, the polyps will recede from this point leaving open skeleton for you to make the cut without fear of damaging the polyps and risking infection."

Then he goes on to suggest you could cut through the calcerous skeleton using a dremel.

Interesting method, it makes sense.

[4ptbuck]

I have also heard of dremelling the base, then cracking the head. Leave the flesh connected, and it will receed, and seperate.

Or you can do what I did, with was while in the process of removing some of the base, ie horizontally, the hammer split vertically in 3 pieces. 2 pieces fell to the floor, with me holding 1 piece, with a big 'o-crap' look on my face.

Put all three pieces back into the tank, and they have all recovered.