SPS encrustation

[duke62]

I have a green acro and a red digi thats taking over a rock from there encrusting and i want to frag a section off but i dont know how to go about it.the 2 pieces are on rock i cant take out of the tank so how can i frag it in the tank.its weird my sps branching takes forever but they encrust so quick

 

[duke62]

Anyone?

 

[fishman1069]

I really have no experience with encrusting sps. I know most are propegated by cutting branches off. Maybe you can just go in with a razor blade and cut? I really dont know, just a blind guess on my part:scratchch

 

[mbg75]

They encrust the base first, then take off growing up.

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[duke62]

no my SPS makes a huge puddle on the rock that are taking over the rock.they are growing outward not upward and they are approaching each other very quickly.i will take some pics

 

[duke62]

pics

you can see how small the branches are but the puddle just keeps creeping across the rocks

 

[Cibo]

I may be a light thing My sps was doing the same thing I cut it and it branched off from the cut spot but about one month ago I go led's the sight is much stronger than my 150mh No I notice it looks like the puddle is starting to branch up now if it grows as much as I thinkit is going to I am gona have a hell of alot of SPS!

 

[duke62]

Ok so the only way i see here is top try and cut it with a razor

 

[Cibo]

clip the branches at the tip see if it gets the base to branch

 

[DJYoshi]

if you want to frag the encrusting part... dremel it... if you're clipping branches... clip the branches that are growing horizontally.... from personal experience.. I've found that I get the best growth on SPS when I clip frags that grow sideways instead of upwards....
I just fragged a piece of my tri color 2 weeks ago & the piece I cut off has already started to grow back and branched off again into 2 instead of 1 branch

 

[CoralMeister]

This is normal.....do not worry at all. I've seen this happen numerous times, even in my tank. Don't clip anything out cause you will just stress it out. I've noticed that a flat like rock scape usually is the cause of this.

Basically, it is encrusting on rock, onto rock, onto rock and etc...until it makes it's way to an open ended area at the edge of a rock. After it "feels" that edge, it will branch out towards that empty area.

Patience, you have some amazings crustations, once they find those edges, it will grow like crazy. Trust me, keep your parameters straight and stable, and it will look really nice.

 

[TheSherm]

This is normal.....do not worry at all. I've seen this happen numerous times, even in my tank. Don't clip anything out cause you will just stress it out. I've noticed that a flat like rock scape usually is the cause of this.

Basically, it is encrusting on rock, onto rock, onto rock and etc...until it makes it's way to an open ended area at the edge of a rock. After it "feels" that edge, it will branch out towards that empty area.

Patience, you have some amazings crustations, once they find those edges, it will grow like crazy. Trust me, keep your parameters straight and stable, and it will look really nice.

+1. Let it go, they are doing great

 

[duke62]

i hear you.my only problem is i placed the corals a couple inches away and they are on top of each other and startingh to fight.you can see the second pic where the batman is killing off the encrusting area of the blue/green tenius

 

[TheSherm]

Best idea is to take out the rock and crack it with a hammer and chisel/ screwdriver. If you cant get the rock out, i've taken my bone cutter and cut just under the coral (actually cut the rock), but you'll be breaking off inch or so pieces of the coral base because the bone cutter isnt that long.