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Hammer coral fragile failure

So a while back I got some hammer coral frags from Paul, they were doing awesome how ever one larger multi headed frag needed to be moved to a better spot in the tank, being to large to move in one piece I decided to frag it.. the colony had 8 heads 4 on one side 4 on the other side in a Y shape, deciding to cut the Y like wish bone I cut down the middle under estimating how fragile the coral skeleton was the one side broke off and fell into the tank in doing so 3 of the 4 polyp heads basically detached from there skeleton... so the soft material of the polyp basically just fell off its skeleton. .. ugh it wasn't even a traumatic move is it normal that they come off that easy for future refrence??
 

falconut

NJRC Member
From my experience, the heads don't just fall of the skeleton. They typically have tissue extending down the skeleton maybe an inch or two. The skeleton usually isnt super strong, so the frag pretty easy.
 

erics210

NJRC Member
I had someone who wanted one head of my hammer, so was using a saw blade, but wsnt cutting well so decided to just use pliers and snap it off. NOT!!!!
It crushed the skeleton into 4 or 4 parts.
Looked horrible and was worried it would kill all 12 heads.

Anyway- I ran out and got some Superglue Gel. Performed surgery. Piece by piece glued each part back together like a broken vase.
Bounced back nicely!

Amazed!

Should have made a video!
 
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