The Fragging Phenomenon Part Deux - Michael Paletta
July 25 2015, Michael Paletta –
In 1992, I wrote my first article on the fragmenting of corals, fragging for short. At that time fragging corals was primarily done on soft corals and was done more out of the necessity to preserve the corals we had, rather than to share the wealth or any other reason. At that time, our success rate in keeping even soft corals was mediocre at best, so we learned that if a coral started to die, we could sometimes save at least part of it by cutting the healthy portion of the animal away from the dying part and then let the new portion regrow.
In 1992, I wrote my first article on the fragmenting of corals, fragging for short. At that time fragging corals was primarily done on soft corals and was done more out of the necessity to preserve the corals we had, rather than to share the wealth or any other reason. At that time, our success rate in keeping even soft corals was mediocre at best, so we learned that if a coral started to die, we could sometimes save at least part of it by cutting the healthy portion of the animal away from the dying part and then let the new portion regrow.
