Frag or let it grow out

[JAMSOURY]

What would be the best way to get the most growth out of zoas? Let it grow out on a rock and let it multiply? Or just keeping fragging and splitting them up to grow out?

 

[ilan84]

Good question! I think fragging and letting grow.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

If you're fragging a colony your making it smaller.
I don't belive they respond like a plant may to pruning.
I'd just spot feed then.

 

[Ice]

Fragging sometimes adds stress which slows growth rate. There had been times where people lose the frag and the mother colony from fragging and them just never opening again. I know JF bloodshots did that a few years ago all the time. Personally I just let mine grow out.

 

[sde1500]

The more polyps there are, the more areas capable of producing babies, more areas bringing in nutrients, etc.

 

[JAMSOURY]

The more polyps there are, the more areas capable of producing babies, more areas bringing in nutrients, etc.

Say a zoa is surrounded by its babies, once the area surrounding it is full, does it limit the babies dropped from them since there is no surface area left?

Whereas if you frag an isolate each one, there is room for them to grow and reproduce.

Just wondering.

 

[sde1500]

Say a zoa is surrounded by its babies, once the area surrounding it is full, does it limit the babies dropped from them since there is no surface area left?

Whereas if you frag an isolate each one, there is room for them to grow and reproduce.

Just wondering.

Maybe? I attach all my plugs to my rock work and they just grow off the plugs onto the rocks. So there is always space for them to go.