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Personal Information First Name. Last Name. Sign Up for Newsletter. Password Password Strength: No Password. Confirm Password. Where they found BRS Other. Create an Account. Please enter your email address below to receive a password reset link. Reset My Password. I just asked for some old stuff they no longer use but still have in a drawer. I prefer stuff like the middle one you see. I've found similar at Harbor Freight. The cutting wheel I use on the Dremel.
I got this one from Ebay, as we did a group buy and ordered 40 wheels and the shank that holds it. They are pretty cheap. The one drawback is that they don't cut deeply because once you've hit the central shaft, you no longer can penetrate the coral.
Radius matters. The tile cutting saw blade made for RotoZip would work much better depth-wise, because the blade was 2. But with a larger blade, you end up having to work out in the open. You lose the precision of being able to cut in a nitch area. He sliced right through favias and acans and it didn't take long at all. Pictured also are razor blades, toothpicks and rubberbands. These come in handy for trimming stuff and securing fraglets.
After fragging, you will want to rinse off any loose bits and coral mucus into one container, and then place the coral into clean water. Once you glue your coral down you will want to go back in and use a turkey baster to clean any new mucus left on the frag.
Before cutting up your corals, you could also use a coral dip such as Coral RX added to the first water container and an iodine-based dip in the second container. The coral RX will help remove any pests that might emerge during fragging and the iodine-based dip will help with coral recovery. Once your corals are fragged up you need something to mount them on.
Any dry hard surface would work but if you plan to transport the coral it is easiest mounted on a frag plug. If you do not like the look of frag plugs in your tank you can use a small piece of live rock to glue the frag too.
Most frag plugs are made of ceramic but some are even 3d printed. Many reefers will soon gather a collection of tools found outside the local fish store to help them frag. These may be razor blades, scalpels, and tweezers. It was designed to cut and strip electrical wires—but it is also a beautifully designed tool that can help you cut or pinch and break thinly branched Stony Coral species. I recommend you get a shiny new pair and keep them surgically clean.
But when you just need to clip a small, branching Stony Coral, wire cutters are the tool for the job. Bone cutters are essentially heavy-duty wire cutters another surgical instrument designed to snap bones instead of wires.
Bones are mineralized calcium phosphate, coral skeletons are calcium carbonate. In short, bone cutters are also coral cutters and are the perfect tool for cutting any branching Stony Coral species—especially when the branches are too thick to cut with wire cutters. If you have to pry a small piece of rock loose or get under the mat of a coral-like a Green Star Polyp, you might need a screwdriver.
In a pinch, you can also use your screwdriver as a chisel. Line up your chisel in between coral polyps on a piece of live rock and give it a hard tap with a hammer and watch the relatively lightweight live rock bust up into pieces.
A Dremel is a specific brand of a small, hand-held rotary tool. This basically means it is a motor attached to a spinning wheel—and you attach awesome things to the spinning wheel to do different tasks. Properly equipped, a rotary tool is a portable, handheld sawing machine that gives you complete control over the exact size and shape of the cut.
If you are a gadget geek, or if you plan on making lots and lots of frags from Stony Coral colonies, you may want to invest the money into a band saw. These saws will quickly cut through anything, including your fingers, so be very, very careful. Super Glue Gel is an excellent adhesive for fragging corals. Cyanoacrylate glue gel is one of the most popular tools used when fragging corals. Cyanoacrylate glue is reef-safe and easy to use.
Just dab it on a frag or piece of live rock, hold the coral in place for a second or two and give it a few minutes to set. Another popular coral fragging tool and an alternative to glue is something called two-part epoxy. Rubber bands are an alternative to glue and work great for the soft-bodied Leather corals.
Leather corals are notoriously difficult to glue into place. Their slime coat protects them from the glue and they often slip away somehow from the grasp of the sticky glue. Rubber bands are sometimes effective at holding slimy coral frags in place. Save that plastic container from the pre-packaged deli meat or cool-whip, in addition to the mesh that your oranges, grapefruits and clementines come in for your coral fragging.
You can use this in the Plastic Container and Mesh method.
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