Frogspawn or torch + hacksaw
I have frogspawn and torch corals that look like this, only they grew much bigger than those pictures, so I thought one day, that I should split them and spread them out within my tank. Sadly, it turned out badly. Just about all of the split fragments, died. Let me tell you how I split them, then you can hopefully tell me what I did wrong.
I lifted each coral to near the water surface, but kept them submerged. I turned them upside down so I could work on their hard bases. I used a hacksaw to cut off a fragment near the point of bifurcation near the base. Maybe the hacksaw creates a vibration or a too-sharp back-and-forth motion, that the corals didn’t tolerate.
I’m hoping that a few of the surviving pieces will regrow, and eventually need splitting again.. and when that happens, is there a different tool to use, to break off the hard bifurcating bases into separate fragments?
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Frogspawn or torch + hacksaw