How can I cut a frogspawn inside tank?

[ralph atl]

My Frogspawn is creeping up too close to some SPS, so I need to cut it back. Simplest would be snipping inside tank, but I can remove it, just it would be a pia..

I've never had to cut one.....

Anybody experienced cutting a few heads?


Thanks!

I have really good bone cutters, hack saw, Ryobi One tool......

 

[morganatlanta]

In my experience, the branches cut/break pretty easily.

 

[ralph atl]

So just a bone cutter wood work inside tank? Thanks!

 

[heathlindner25]

I've always used a dremel outside the tank, below the flesh..

 

[snowmansnow]

Just don't get up to the "tissue" area and it will be fine. You'll be surprised how soft those branches actually are

 

[ralph atl]

Thanks! So below the tissue line? I guess this will be obvious to me? no clue....sorry...

 

[jdavid]

the skeleton will crush if you go at the wrong place. I would go at it with a flathead screwdriver or chisel in between the stalks where there is a U shape but that is just me, and how I was shown to do it.

 

[heathlindner25]

mysterybox;882501 wrote: Thanks! So below the tissue line? I guess this will be obvious to me? no clue....sorry...

that's why it's better to do it outside the tank you can see the flesh from the skeleton, and the Dremel makes it nice clean cut . and I wear gloves from now on, I have sores from 3 months ago from a hammer that stung me

 

[jdavid]

dang I touch my LPS all the time! guess I'm lucky I should be more careful. My bubble tip never stings me either.

 

[heathlindner25]

JDavid;882504 wrote: dang I touch my LPS all the time! guess I'm lucky I should be more careful. My bubble tip never stings me either.

I'm allergic to bee venom I don't know if it's related... and we have an extremely extra large rbta at work and it stung me also but not as bad as hammers and frogspawn.

 

[ripped tide]

I have crushed plenty of frogspawn heads. If you do, don't throw away any of it. In my experience, any piece with flesh will continue growing.

Edit: I accidentally dropped my water change pump onto my frogspawn and smashed two heads into like 10 pieces. I ended up with 10 frags of frogspawn.

 

[jimmystephens]

Mb: if ur keeping it in the water just brush the frogspawn with ur hand(with gloves if u want) untill it retracts.this way u can see where to cut. Then cut the branches off of it like u want. Try to cut close to the main stalk just like u would do when trimming a bush in ur yard. Its pretty easy. Just like sps wben u have wavy lps blocking it haha

Edit: Wben = but (wow typo from hell)

 

[KrisDeitz]

Just break the branches. Its very fragile

 

[ralph atl]

Ok, thanks everybody.....I'll try will bone cutters tomorrow, as close to main stalk as possible, if not, I'll remove from tank and cut with bone knife, saw, etc....

Thanks so much!

Edit:

PFCDeitz;882536 wrote: Just break the branches. Its very fragile

Really? Ok....second choice...

 

[KrisDeitz]

mysterybox;882541 wrote: Ok, thanks everybody.....I'll try will bone cutters tomorrow, as close to main stalk as possible, if not, I'll remove from tank and cut with bone knife, saw, etc....

Thanks so much!

Edit:

Really? Ok....second choice...

Id gladly come out and help you. Id like to see the tank anyway

 

[jdavid]

If you just slowly chip down with a chisel/flathead at the join of two branches it will not break. some branches have deeper "U's" and that's where you want to do it. If you crush it, don't toss it. Dylan crushed one he brought to me recently and it's healed up and way bigger than I've ever seen a couple heads expand to.

 

[saltbubbles]

I wish I knew how not to accidentally break them

 

[jennm]

If skeletons are brittle, you don't have enough calcium in your tank.

I've seen some that were leggy and brittle, and others with thick, dense skeletons. The latter came from tanks where keepers were on top of their parameters and conscientious about maintaining their calcium/magnesium levels.

The former, end up with thin, spindly, brittle skeletons.

Kind of like osteoporosis in corals....

Jenn

 

[ralph atl]

JennM;882613 wrote: If skeletons are brittle, you don't have enough calcium in your tank.

I've seen some that were leggy and brittle, and others with thick, dense skeletons. The latter came from tanks where keepers were on top of their parameters and conscientious about maintaining their calcium/magnesium levels.

The former, end up with thin, spindly, brittle skeletons.

Kind of like osteoporosis in corals....

Jenn

Yeah, I'm thinking these branches are thick.......That makes sense why some are saying they are brittle....I'll give it a shot inside, otherwise I'll just have to tear that little section apart and remove it....

 

[glxtrix]

wrap a teeny tiny stick of dynamite and watch it go boom!