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Hi guys,
I'm very upset today, cause I just killed a piece of coral... 
It was the purple monti from Jar.
Since the plug was fully encrusted, I thought I would split the plug in half and mount it in 2 separate plugs, right?
Wrong.... It died on me
One half is ok, but the other one just has the skeleton left. It kept loosing tissue over 2 days and now it's dead. I'm so sad... (
What did I do wrong?
Maybe I shouldn't have tried that. I'll take it to someone to split it for me next time.
My apologies...
Roberto
Fremont, CA
Illuminata 57
No... no dipping... especially FW dipping.. I heard you can kill it within 30s. Don't want to even try that..
Roberto
Fremont, CA
Illuminata 57
I agree it is odd. I can say I have done way worse then just splitting a plug to montis and had then be fine after (like leave them on the table for a couple of hours by accident. They are pretty hearty for the most part.
I usually do a quick rinse in revive after fragging (a rinse not a dip) just to help prevent infection but it is by no means necessary.
Sometimes with no rhyme or reason, a coral dies when fragged. Remember fragging causes stress to the coral, stress can lead rtn/stn.
How did you cut the monti?
Did you mount with epoxy? Sometimes the epoxy gets too hot if it's a large chunk.
Good point on the epoxy Norm 
Thanks...
It's good to know about the epoxy.
I don't think I used much and I placed the broken plug on the new plug with a sandwich method (super glue - epoxy - super glue)
I broke the old plug with force. Would it be better to cut with a saw?
Roberto
Fremont, CA
Illuminata 57
I just lost a nice superman monti frag.
I moved it to the brighter side of my rack and poof!
Dead.
Who knows?
Anyway, fortunately we can grow more.
The way I frag the purple is that it will outgrow the plug and plate outward.
Then you can just crack off a piece that is not encrusted on the plug.
on a happier note...the monti I got from you is growing out nicely!
+1
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Odd. Did you dip it? FW will do that to montis, hopefully you didn't do a FW dip.