The Frag Files: Duncanopsammia --- Gallery Aquatica TV

[@MichellesMermaidRoom]

Always such a treat to have Ania share her knowledge and skills. I will take one of each plug. Cheers ❤🧜‍♀️

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

Larie Walls thank you so much for your kind words

[@SquawkVFRC]

Thank you! This video is so good. I was going to go in to get my Duncan fragged but after watching this I got the tools, Iodine dip etc and it’s all I needed to give it a go myself so helpful guys

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

Thank you MickeySims. Great to know we could help. That’s really encouraging to hear. Happy Reefing :) Ania

[@szczurkowskireefing6308]

Very informative, thanks Ania. Keep up good work!

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

Zooantus.pl Dziekuje bardzo!

[@volteface69]

Merci Anya !!! 👍👍👍

[@VascoFL]

6:35 Anja, is your other job baarkeeper? ;-) Great video as always!! Keep up the great work please!

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

VascoFL I’m lucky the glue didn’t fly out and stick my glasses to my face! 🤣🤣 (This May to May not have happened before)

[@sosmra]

Very good info thank you

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

Glad it was helpful! Happy Reefing! Ania

[@Reefgrrl]

Love my Duncan! And though it would probably be good to frag it, I don’t think I will after seeing how tough and sturdy and hard to cut they are! 😲 And you also answered a question I’ve always had about whether the heads need feeding individually or whether they share the energy throughout the colony. 👍🏻 One thing I particularly appreciate about it, is its ability to act as a bellwether for issues in the tank - if mine looks unhappy for a couple of days, I start checking for problems. Thanks for another great video Ania! 😁

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

Reefgrrl so so nice of you to leave this positive comment, thank you!

[@edson.jerez1982]

Txs for the video!

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

Edson Jerez thank you for watching!

[@Mike__B]

Ania looking like Tom Cruise from the movie Cocktail with that coral glue :D :D Why are you even putting the larger ones on frag plugs? It seems the big stem under it basically is a frag plug.

[@Scotty2Dope216]

Always love your frag files videos! As always very informative!

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

Scotty2Dope216 thank you so much. Means so much to us to hear this.

[@michelleconabere7063]

Very informative I have this coral so now will know how to frag it when it needs it.

[@OlGoodJoe]

I got the tools if you'll bring the glue... haha Great video very pleasant and informative.

[@FriendM2010]

Hello from SoCal. Like this channel and learning something too 👍. Fellow viewers, share this channel with your friends, it should have much more subscribers 👍. Young lady knows her way around the snippers 😳

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

Matthew cheers! Thank you so much for leaving your positive opinion. Wishing you a fantastic 2020! Ania

[@HCBCHEMISTRY]

This was such a great video. Hopefully we see more videos of you, plus you look cute 'n nice hair. Keep up the good work.

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

HCBCHEMISTRYoCOM thank you so much for taking the time to leave such positive feedback. Means a lot to us.

[@HCBCHEMISTRY]

@@GalleryAquaticaTV keep up the good work

[@mickh5519]

This lady is such a star. I need to see more

[@gsander4837]

I love bloopers. 😁👍🏻. Another fantastic educational video. I need to frag my duncan too as it is very large and has some die off due to shading itself. Thanks for sharing.

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

G Sander cheers for watching. Thank you for the positive feedback. Be sure to get yourself some incredibly strong cutters!

[@braveheartreefer525]

Fragtastic Ania

[@sunnygoold9449]

I love Frag Files ;) So great - can't wait for Anja to "crack out the power tools". I have this plan to get a flat piece of rock covered in GSP with a 'tree' of duncans coming out of it - I think duncans are the only LPS with long enough stems but the vast majority in EU are small frags - think I will do it with a WA one and maybe put some morphs around the base ;) Don't steal my idea Cam!

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

Oh man, how can I not steal that idea? How about I credit you when I do steal it😂 Cam

[@sunnygoold9449]

@@GalleryAquaticaTV Hahaaa - of course if you think its good just do it - don't need the credit - best thing is that you didn't tell me the GSP would overgrow the Duncans so I'm stoked ;)

[@DG-ee9im]

COOL FRAG STANDS. where are they from?

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

david goldberg g’day David. They are made by our 3D printer design supplier for sale at Gallery Aquatica. They start from $1.50 for the smallest size, handy little stands!

[@tristans_jungle6924]

Beautiful video, as always!!

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

Thank you so much! So grateful you think so :)

[@tonyaclark1570]

Hi, did you get rid of the vertimid snails? They are demons 😈

[@ChristianBiggins]

Omg I need a gallery Aquatica stubby holder in my life!

[@dallasstorm8860]

What do you do with the bits you cut off? The sponges and such. Regular garbage?

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

Dallas Storm generally yes. There are two local reefers I keep in mind for “ocean offcuts” who tend to enjoy hoarding those kinds of oddities. When we unpack wild coral orders we can certainly hold back those kinds of organisms for people who have let us know they are keen for them. Ania

[@Leigh33]

Another great video but the one slight criticism i have, and it is only a very small personal peeve... I would have liked to have seen the frags after being returned to the water open and happy. Loving these frag files... Keep em coming.

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

DrOfWelshMagic I totally agree with you, it would be fantastic to have that much time to share how great they look afterwards . Especially as I am the lucky one to walk into the Prop room the next morning and witness just how perfectly resilient the polyps appear their disturbance. Takes my breath away. The main reason is because we can only book very limited sessions with our cameraman each week and / or the demands of our retail sector cause us to restock the shop with the propagated frags sooner than the next opportunity we have there with the cameraman. Lucky for our local clients that when they visit the store they recognise the frags from past videos, it’s always an impressive talking point.

[@SuperYellowtang]

Great video bottle flip queen 👸

[@Mobile_Home]

Hey Ania. Check out Inland DB-100 diamond saw for fraging lps/sps. Great piece of hardware.

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

Paweł Sz Dziękuje!

[@aliceholbert1246]

That's me with clippers. Lmao. Go girl.

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

Cheers! 😆

[@marceloluiz9269]

Is it possible to show us how to frag elegance coral?🇧🇷

[@jeffjarry4257]

Very nice video tank you. If i could make a suggestion i use ( insta - set ) by Bob smith industries And it comes in a small spray bottle and its made for coral frags it makes the coral glue dries VERY FAST put frag in glue hold frag on glued plug and spray a couple of times and its ready. I use it and its great. Try it out and i will guarantee you will love it. Thanks again for the great video.

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

Jeff Jarry I’ll have to give it a go!

[@jeffjarry4257]

@@GalleryAquaticaTV you will love it more propping up frags to dry. Remember it dries in seconds put frag in glue them spray it's very fast. Thank you so much for your time and help making these videos.

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

Jeff Jarry i definitely see an advantage with that kind of a glue for some applications. But is there a way to isolate the spray for when we are doing bulk fragging? Usually when I Frag (for propagation shifts; non demonstration purposes) I lay out 150-300 plugs at a time per frag session. The gel formula of Cg or TLF Coraffix is perfect because it remains wet for a very long period of time and I can easily determine which plugs have different sized mounds of glue on them.

[@jeffjarry4257]

@@GalleryAquaticaTV since it's just a liquid spray you can just spray the frags you want to. I have the 2 oz. Spray bottle and it goes along way. Especially for the frags you need to prop up. And the over isn't that bad.

[@jeffjarry4257]

It's not a glue just a accelerator that's all once you put your frag in your desired coral glue just spray on glue and it dries fast with in second .

[@patrickmonteiro1999]

I didn’t know there was two type of Duncan what are they called?

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

Patrick Monteiro they are both the same species - D. axifuga - but completely different growth form. We call them “WA” vs “QLD” because of their state of origin. The WA ones are compact and the branches form thick dense plates. The Duncan found in QLD are spaciously branched.

[@oscartalamantes4480]

Great Video... ;)

[@saranaquariumstudio]

Ania, Coral DIP solution: Any specific measurement while diluting with saltwater

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

Saran AP Hi Saran, I just use the measurements on the bottles. So it depends which brand you are using. For Coral RX it’s 8 drops per litre of seawater For Seachem Iodine based it’s 5ml-10ml per per 4L (dose depends on how dirty what you dip is)

[@yasseraloy4178]

👍

[@exxpl]

Ania or Anja? You have family from Poland? :)

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

I am Polish

[@exxpl]

@@GalleryAquaticaTV Pozdrawiam 😀

[@burtminshew4812]

Like a bartender...😋

[@c4snipar]

No offense, but you were pressing the coral flesh on the table with high chances of damaging it. Hold it up and cut it next to a bucket of water or a piece of foam so that if they drop, it lands safely.

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

c4snipar thanks so much for the input, I appreciate your opinion . I understand how it may have looked here on the footage but I have to assure you in reality the cuts were incredibly low contact impact. This coral skeleton was incredibly dense. There was absolutely no way I could have safely performed a cut in the air, I would have snapped my wrist. Please believe me that there was no impact whatsoever on the flesh or the coral from placing it above the towel. All the frags taken were very successful, healed and encrusted the tiles and sold very fast. Ania

[@c4snipar]

You were pressing the coral heads no the table while cutting it and then you said you were using something soft to make them stable smh

[@coraladdict5059]

c4snipar have you ever tried to cut Duncan by hand? I nearly broke my wrist when I tried to.

[@c4snipar]

I have. No offense, if you were almost broke your hand by cutting it maybe you need to have a better tool selection.

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

c4snipar thanks so much for sharing your opinion. West Australian Duncan grow such a strong dense skeleton I have even snapped our coral cutters trying to cut through what looked like a thin stem! Maybe it didn’t translate well via film but I do think you’ll find that I was incredibly careful to ensure that all soft tissue was safely retracted and made absolutely no contact with the (also soft towel on the) table. Sometimes it’s unavoidable to touch an area with pressure, but we do our best. I’m always incredibly careful where possible to successfully increase colony numbers via propagation efforts and never decrease them.

[@coraladdict5059]

c4snipar my Dremel is my favourite cutting tool.

[@c4snipar]

Coral Addict that works! Keep up the video, they were nice!