zooanthids...button polps

[fbm]

I have been feeding my button polps alot and they are looking good. I just witnessed about 4 to 5 of them just jump off the rock in a clump. So I am thinking they do this to move around maybe?
So what I did was rubber band them to a rubble rock so that a frag will start. Is this the right thing to do?

 

[paulcoates]

Originally Posted by fbm
I have been feeding my button polps alot and they are looking good. I just witnessed about 4 to 5 of them just jump off the rock in a clump. So I am thinking they do this to move around maybe?
So what I did was rubber band them to a rubble rock so that a frag will start. Is this the right thing to do?
You could do that I suppose
1)What are you feeding your polyps and how exactly are you feeding them?
2)I've never heard of polyps unfooting themselves and moving without a reason. Polyps usually shoot runners outs and propogate that way.

 

[chipmaker]

I do not think they unstuck themselves and jumped of a rock. They do not have a means of moving as such and probably their adhesion to the rock came undone and the water current pushed them off. As stated prevoiusdly them only move by pushingout new polyps, not unfooting themselves and jumping. I feed most all of mine with mysid, pelletd feed or even when I feed frozen the pieces that fall on them they just ball up and consume it.

 

[bojik]

they might have been hanging off of the main cluster and 'stretched' off

 

[fbm]

Originally Posted by Bojik
they might have been hanging off of the main cluster and 'stretched' off
This is a better description, they where moving in the current back and forth and stretched off/ pinched off and new polps where already on the original rock beneath them.
So this is normal then I take it?

 

[fbm]

Originally Posted by paulcoates
You could do that I suppose
1)What are you feeding your polyps and how exactly are you feeding them?
2)I've never heard of polyps unfooting themselves and moving without a reason. Polyps usually shoot runners outs and propogate that way.

I am feeding them Spectrum Thera A+ by new life... mostly with some mysis and brine that they get when I put in the tank. But mainly the pellets and I just drop a pellet in each polp and they are growing like weeds.

 

[reefkprz]

relativly normal, instead of a rubber band (unsightly) use superglue gel, just pat the LR dry with a piece of paper towel do the same to the bottom of the polyps and put a dab of glue on the rock, set the bottom of the polyps against the glue wait 30 seconds then put back in tank. no ugly rubberband.

 

[reefkprz]

spectrum is an awesome food.

 

[fbm]

Originally Posted by reefkprZ
spectrum is an awesome food.
I have been using it for about 4 months now, I hesitant at first because it was not the normal thing to feed the corals. But someone here locally, not a lfs, just a friend I met through this hobby told me of his success with it. I also feed my brain coral and pretty much everything else it and I am having real good success.

 

[fbm]

Originally Posted by reefkprZ
relativly normal, instead of a rubber band (unsightly) use superglue gel, just pat the LR dry with a piece of paper towel do the same to the bottom of the polyps and put a dab of glue on the rock, set the bottom of the polyps against the glue wait 30 seconds then put back in tank. no ugly rubberband.
I made my first frags with kenya trees and superglue gel and the next morning they were all off. That is why I am trying the rubber bands.

 

[bojik]

some say it irritates their flesh.

 

[fbm]

I will have to watch and see. Maybe I just used too much glue on the kenya trees?

 

[reefkprz]

with kenya trees I just set a piece of rock on their base and let them attach on there own. soft corals are too "slimy". Palythoas and zoanthids I use superglue gel. I have made hundreds of frags with super glue gel and never noticed a problem. super glue was originally designed by the military to close wounds in combat, as a carpenter I have used it to glue minor cuts and splits/cracks from weather and dryness on my own hands.

 

[barchtruong]

what kind of superglue gel is it?
where can i find them?
Is it a typical glue that I can find at those hardware store?
thanks

 

[reefkprz]

yeah you can buy it at wal mart or a hardware store. just "super glue gel" thats the name brand.
Krazy glue gel is the same thing.
if the warning lable says "warning: contains ethyl cyanoacrylate" its the right stuff just make sure its the gel type its a lot easier to use than the thinset.