How to frag Blastomussa Merletti?

[Crush Coral]

I have a colony of about 250 heads. I tried using a large screwdriver between the heads and twisting it but to no avail. Any tips on how to separate some heads w/o buying a band saw?

[aandfsoccr04]

250 heads!?!? Post a picture!

[brandon429]

yep mine are all dremeled apart, same w hammers and frogspawn i can dremel frag all day without splitting. you buzz each side of the column cut point, not go all the way through one side. lick it like a friggin tootsie pop with the cutter wheel 360 around each nick at a time, done

actually w blasto m I do just buzzcut right through it all w diamond head and each polyp+skeletal column falls into a cup of water.

[brandon429]

stuff grows really fast. in 7 years I have taken 4 heads to about 150 in a gallon pico all documented w pics and vid. i believe you could get 250 on any larger tank, say a two gallon


:)

[Crush Coral]

I do not know what you mean by 360 around each head? They are all packed right next to each other. Does our dremel rust from the salt water? I can not remove the colony from my tank, supose I could just drop the water level and do it though.

[brandon429]

All mine is out of tank work yours does sound tricky. Yes my cutter is rusty just like gfo lol i don't mind. I didn't know you couldn't remove the colony

[Crush Coral]

I started with 4 heads about 9 years ago. Been fun watching it grow. I like that it does not try to take over the whole tank like my Monti does. If I could frag half of this I could make some $.

[vic8361]

you need to keep hacking away at it with cutters or you could get a long thin screwdriver and a hammer. There tough to break but when it breaks off you can a nice large piece out of the tank then use the dremil to make smaller frags of it.

[vic8361]

here is a pic of the one I had.
http://www.manhattanreefs.com/gallery/files/5/4/8/2/ssc_1157.jpg