Devils Hand Leather

[mvallee]

Definitely seeing where this coral got it's name, I changed the flow a little tonight and one of the hands came up pretty creepy. When I first noticed the resemblance to a reaching devils hand my clown fish was right in the curled hand but once the camera was out he was not repeating.


How big do these get, I swear this thing has grown by maybe a third in the month I have had it and new hands are forming.

 

[myram]

That is a creepy looking coral................but very cool.

Have to put that on my list of corals to watch for.

 

[myram]

If you ever frag it, let me know. I like how it's a reddish color.........fits the name better.

 

[JohnK]

They can grow pretty massive, and are usually quite easy to frag. Cut 1-4" frags, impale with plastic toothpicks, loosely hold on a chunk of rubble with a rubber band, leave the frags alone until the rubber band falls off and the frags should be attached.

 

[mvallee]

Thanks John, do you cut off the the tips or cut off a whole hand from the base and cut that into 1-4" pieces.

not looking to do it yet but it is getting larger and will need to trim sooner or later, would be nice to be able to propagate.

 

[JohnK]

Either way, I'd go with tips but just about anything will likely work.

 

[dannyp02908]

I would cut it in a way that suits where its at. If its just a tip, that's fine, if you have to remove a whole tentacle, that's fine too. This is one of those corals you can basically do no wrong with. And thay can get massive.

 

[frank180reef]

You could likely just cut, dry, glue wait a few minutes and be fine, I do it all the time

Most times it sticks

 

[bdaley]

best bet is the cut, rubble, tooth pick, most soft corals produce too much slime for glue to be of much use. The way I do it id either make cutting and place them in a low flow area on rubble in about a week they always attach to the rubble, the other way is to cut, insert a tooth pick through the bottom and use either fishing line or a rubber band , going around the ends of the tooth pick to a piece of rubble or plug. Then again in about a week it has attached and I remove the tooth pick and fishing line.