{"id":631,"date":"2014-02-15T00:38:37","date_gmt":"2014-02-15T05:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=631"},"modified":"2014-07-03T08:06:42","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T12:06:42","slug":"new-coral-frags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/2014\/02\/15\/new-coral-frags\/","title":{"rendered":"New Coral Frags"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was coral cutting workshop again at the <a href=\"http:\/\/mastcanada.org\/\" title=\"Marine Aquarium Society of Toronto\" target=\"_blank\">Marine Aquarium Society of Toronto<\/a>.<!--more--> Since I have lost most of the livestock from my reef tank during the power blackouts I have picked up these cuttings to start restocking my tank.<\/p>\n<p>Leather corals are hardy, I figured one will survive in my tank that is still recovering from the recent die off.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_629\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Leather-Coral-Frag.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-629\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Leather-Coral-Frag.jpg\" alt=\"A picture of a leather coral frag.\" width=\"450\" height=\"375\" class=\"size-full wp-image-629\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Leather-Coral-Frag.jpg 450w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Leather-Coral-Frag-300x250.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-629\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A leather coral frag.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Hammer and torch corals are close relatives of the <a href=\"\/2014\/01\/27\/frowspawn-coral\/\" title=\"Frowspawn Coral\">frogspawn coral<\/a>, that was doing well in my tank prior to the power out. So I have decided to try these.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_627\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Hammer-Coral-Frag.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-627\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Hammer-Coral-Frag.jpg\" alt=\"A picture of a hammer coral frag.\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-627\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Hammer-Coral-Frag.jpg 400w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Hammer-Coral-Frag-150x150.jpg 150w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Hammer-Coral-Frag-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-627\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A hammer coral frag.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_628\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Torch-Coral-Frag.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-628\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Torch-Coral-Frag.jpg\" alt=\"A picture of a torch coral frag.\" width=\"400\" height=\"375\" class=\"size-full wp-image-628\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Torch-Coral-Frag.jpg 400w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Torch-Coral-Frag-300x281.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-628\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A torch coral frag.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I did not really want to pick up anything else, but a bunch of gorgonian cuttings were lying there, so I have picked one up.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_630\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Gorgonian-Coral-Frag.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-630\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Gorgonian-Coral-Frag.jpg\" alt=\"A picture of a gorgonian coral frag.\" width=\"300\" height=\"700\" class=\"size-full wp-image-630\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Gorgonian-Coral-Frag.jpg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Gorgonian-Coral-Frag-128x300.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-630\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A gorgonian coral frag.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I did not mount these frags during the meeting. I prefer to glue them directly to a big piece of live rock where they supposed to sit, so I did that when I got home.<br \/>\nI have used super glue and some underwater epoxy (the kind that you knead together), and for the leather coral cuttings, I just used a rubber band to hold it to a rock.<\/p>\n<p>Only time will tell if any of these will survive, for now they seem to be doing well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was coral cutting workshop again at the Marine Aquarium Society of Toronto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[65,12,30,18,31],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}