Toadstool Frag?

[drummer606]

I have a huge Leather Toadstool and I have never done the whole Frag thing and this thing just keeps growing. What is the best way to go about this?

 

[calaxa]

Cut off the crown is safest way, including a small piece of stalk. Then you can frag into several pie shaped pieces and leave them on a bed of gravel/loose rock to heal. They should attach themselves and will heal in about a month. The stalk you cut should grow a new crown. If this is a very large toadstool, you can cut off an edge of the crown or cut a donut. Try to do this out of the tank. When you cut a toadstool (actually most softies), they release some pretty nasty chemicals. I accidentally "fragged" my toadstool and the zoas next to it immediately closed up and pointed in other direction. Anemone downwind closed from 15" down to a 2" ball. Xenia upwind didn't like much either.

 

[NJ_ychung1]

make sure to use surgi gloves - unless you want a stinky hand. also - i think - the toady's have some toxic chemical like the zoos and paly's not sure how itense but keep it from shooting into your mouth and eye.

 

[calaxa]

LOL stinky hand. Yeah all softies have that stench. The chemicals are fine so long as you don't eat it or get it in your eyes. I think xenia is the stinkiest of the softies though.

 

[Candi]

Definitely do it outside of the tank, even then be careful pending the size of the one you're cutting up in relation to water volume. I used to have a ton of different zoas in my 24g aquapod, after fragging my huge leather (in the tank, oops) and letting them grow out I lost ALL zoas in the tank, a few polyps I managed to get lose and move to my 70g recovered and are growing well. I think I had far to many leathers and healing ones for the water volume. I also almost lost my hammer, again once I moved it to my 70g it was not only fine but has more then quadrupled in size. Only thing that seems unaffected was GSP & rics.... leaving me pretty much a ric & toadstool tank LOL