• How to cut/transplant a coral?

  • Julie

Good day, everyone! Could you please tell me how to cut coral off a rock for transplantation? I have a large and somewhat inconvenient rock with a small colony of Tubastrea. I want to transplant them onto a piece of live rock with the aim of placing it in a current and not under direct sunlight.

William1830

There is also the option to split the stone. Stones are quite easy to split.

Elizabeth882

How to separate the Tapetum mat from the stone?

Debra

Tuba stria does not like strong currents.

Katie3017

The least traumatic option is to take a stone and hang it over the water with the anemone facing down (for example, over a bucket of seawater), so that the foot is in the air and the body is either touching the water or very close to it. After a few hours, you take the disturbed animal out of the bucket.

Sarah5423

It's clear, but the rock is sticking out of the reef...

Diana3118

You take the reef, hang it over a bucket... If the anemone's foot is not hidden in a crevice, you first scare the anemone, it contracts, then you carefully pry the foot off the rock with a claw, millimeter by millimeter. If the foot is hidden, then you have to dismantle the reef. At that point, you can also use the bucket.

Caitlin3279

It's been hanging for 10 minutes. When will it fall off, the stone is drying...

Jason

Call Zhenya with a question. At his company, they removed the tapenum from the stone in 2 minutes today. I didn't see how they did it.

Crystal

I'm telling you - a few hours. And nothing will happen to the stone. If you're worried, you can periodically water it from a cup.

Marie5348

an aquarium in the office, but it's time to go home... they will travel on a stone and with a bucket, or rather in a bucket!

Hannah

I will share my experience. This technology was explained to me at . You take a medium-hard brush and start gently "poking" it between the anemone's foot and the rock, and with the brush, you "lift" the edge of the foot. At first, the anemone contracts its foot, then it slowly begins to detach it from the rock. You must not stop - it will reattach again. The whole process took half an hour, and the foot (in its contracted state after detachment) was about the size of a ten kopeck coin. There are no visible damages.