Fragging Question

cam78

cam78

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Hi, I know there are a lot of threads on fragging. I can't find specific enough directions for zoos. I want to just take a few zoo polyps off a rock and attach it to another. Can someone please tel me how to do this. I don't know where to cut it or if I can just pull it off? Like I said I just want to grab 2 or 3 to attah to a rock. Please respond, I would like to start this soon.
 
larryndana

larryndana

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seems like i read how to do this, but can't remember where. Maybe someone that knows will answer. i'll try and see if i can find it, though.
 
reefkprz

reefkprz

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use a butter knife to scrape the side lifting the mat, peel it back a little way untill you get the number of polyps you want, then cut them free with a razor being careful not to cut the polyps. then pat the bottom dry with paper towel pat the rock dry you want to glue to put a couple drops of superglue gel (cyanoacrylate based glue). then place the zoas on the glue let dry for a minute or two then your set. no need to rush they can be out of the water for 20 minutes no prob.
IMPORTANT: wear gloves, and eyeprotection. ceartain zoanthinds and paly thoas have palytoxin, wich is the most toxic naturally occuring substance in the world and can put you in the hospital. no joke.
 
larryndana

larryndana

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I've never had to do that yet. Everything that i've fragged as been attached to a little bit of substrate.
Actually the only coral in my aquapod that i didn't frag is my purple gorgonian. I like to do it that way. :happyfish
 
reefkprz

reefkprz

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I frag so much stuff for selling and trading that I usually dont wait for stuff to attach to something else and split it, though it does happen occasionally.
 
cam78

cam78

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I tried it. We'll see what happens. The zoo I stuck into a hole on another rock is all closed up. It might be dead, we'll see. i didn't use glue I just stuck it in a hole. Its really closed up though. ***)
 
scotts

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Cam, Good luck with that. I think that when it opens up it will expand and pop out of the hole. There is no problem super gluing the zoo frag to the rock, just WEAR GLOVES.
 
larryndana

larryndana

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Originally Posted by reefkprZ
I frag so much stuff for selling and trading that I usually dont wait for stuff to attach to something else and split it, though it does happen occasionally.
thats cool, i just bought 4 zoo frags....can't wait til they come in.
 
reefkprz

reefkprz

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larryndana: gotta love getting new stuff!
Cam: I am inclined to agree with scotts chances are it'll pop out of the hole. it may stay though.
 
cam78

cam78

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Ha, well you guys hit it right on the nail. I was at work all day and when I got home, the zoos were gone. I looked but no luck.
Also Larry, where did you buy zoo frags? I would be interested in some. If you can't put down the site can you email me one?
Marucci079@optonline.net
 
larryndana

larryndana

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Originally Posted by CAM78
Ha, well you guys hit it right on the nail. I was at work all day and when I got home, the zoos were gone. I looked but no luck.
Also Larry, where did you buy zoo frags? I would be interested in some. If you can't put down the site can you email me one?
Marucci079@optonline.net
let me see how it goes first, give me a few days. i believe i will get them on thursday, was wednesday at first.
 
reefkprz

reefkprz

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Originally Posted by sea n life
hello i was wondering can a hammer or torch be fragged without killing it?

yes. you can break the skeleton way below the head usually at a branching intersection. you have to be carefull not to break it too close to the head because the coral extends down inside the skeleton quite a ways. one of the best ways to break them is usually with bonecutters, though you can just grab it and snap it off. you can also use a dremmel or rotozip to cut it.
 
cjason3041

cjason3041

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Originally Posted by reefkprZ
use a butter knife to scrape the side lifting the mat, peel it back a little way untill you get the number of polyps you want, then cut them free with a razor being careful not to cut the polyps. then pat the bottom dry with paper towel pat the rock dry you want to glue to put a couple drops of superglue gel (cyanoacrylate based glue). then place the zoas on the glue let dry for a minute or two then your set. no need to rush they can be out of the water for 20 minutes no prob.
IMPORTANT: wear gloves, and eyeprotection. ceartain zoanthinds and paly thoas have palytoxin, wich is the most toxic naturally occuring substance in the world and can put you in the hospital. no joke.

are all zoas toxic?...and what are we talking here, hospital, or just itching like poison ivy?
 
petjunkie

petjunkie

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From what I've read some are and some aren't but you can't tell just by looking which could kill you. It also depends on your tolerance to poisons. I know I where gloves and glasses while fragging but I do move them around with bare hands, most times with no problems but one of my frags causes my hands to break out like eczema and others nothing at all. Haven't figured out which ones yet though.
 
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