Fragging

[Phischy]

In my 40 gallon I have some rics. Really big and beautiful rics. The problem is I have upwards of 7 or 8 or 9 on a rock 1/2 the size of a golf ball. It's epoxied onto my LR and now I'm starting to wonder if I can't frag them and space them out to give them more breathing room. They are in a constant state of split, depending on how much I feed them and they have actually dropped 1 baby so far in the last year.

Is the best thing to do is to piss 'em off so they shrivel up and then take a hammer & chisel to break the rock up? What happens if one tears? I highly doubt I can split the rock without tearing a ric due to the density they occupy on the rock. I've seen my other shrooms move but these guys stay put. Any ideas?

 

[r00onmac]

ive heard that they can be fragged the same way as regular shrooms... i had a bunch of success with my green shroom recently because its base was attached to 2 different rocks and i just split it down the middle and seperated the rocks... i bet if you cut one down the center and then chisel the rock in half between the two halfs they would not only stay stuck, but heal into 2 identical rics... lather, rinse, and repeat until you have the number of rocks you want where you want them... but i would try it with one first and wait a few weeks to watch the healing process... as skip says HTH

 

[Jennie]

You can also try to slice the crown off and vail to some rubble. The tissue left on the rock will heal and regrow. I've scraped one off of a rock and divided it then with success as well.

 

[amf82380]

I had one and it had three centers I fragged one because it was on a seperate piece of rock split it right between the two centers and it was opening the next day and that was a month ago I just had a guy want it so I traded for a pulsing zexina then tonight I just fragged the remaining two head and they both seem to be doing great so far.