How to propagate leather coral?

[briareos]

A lot of web pages say, cut a small piece off.

But a piece of what? The polyp head, or the stem? If I cut a chunk of the head off, will it grow a new stem? And it produces lots of mucus, so how do I superglue it to rock?

[pangz]

I don know much abt cutting a leather, but for my case, i just let it propagate naturally. It will just grow in size and a small portion of it will split from its mother colony. That is how mine propagated. But it takes time.

[briareos]

Is it better to trim off smaller or bigger portions?

[Jenson]

According to an article i came across on garf.org, the smaller the cutting the better it would be as they would be able to better adapt. I've personally cut off a frag of about half and inch off my dying leather in the past, and it worked for me.

[blueheaven]

Sarcophytons are easy to propagate as they can regenerate amazingly.

I once pulled out this big leather that fused onto the rock and it left a few strands of its tissue on the rock which I thought would degrade away but it amazingly grew back into another specimen

[shoelevy]

Sarcophytons are easy to propagate as they can regenerate amazingly.

I once pulled out this big leather that fused onto the rock and it left a few strands of its tissue on the rock which I thought would degrade away but it amazingly grew back into another specimen

lol

ya man BH, i've heard reborn telling me the same thing

for them it was a headache, think they need to get the rock out to sun first and kill the remaining tissues

anyway, its GREAT to have u back.