Fragging Zoa’s

[Cigarman]

I have 6 Zoa frags coming later this week. I plan on taking them off the plugs and gluing to a couple of rock islands. My question is should i do the fragging the day the day they get here or should i leave them on the plugs on sand bed for a couple weeks to acclimate?

 

[BlennyTime]

I would leave them in the sand bed for at least a few days to recover from shipping. Then when they are fully open and recovered, you can mount them.

 

[fryman]

IMHO if you have a quarantine system then keep the plug and let them acclimate a few weeks to reduce stress on the coral. But I do not xfer plugs directly into my main display anymore. There's more risk for something hitching in that way.

 

[ZoWhat]

PRO TIP:

Id use cutting pliers to trim around the plug, while NOT DISTURBING the polyps, then glue the frag plug nub to whatever you're gluing to.

....then when the colony grows out well beyond the original plug you can find the original plug and pry that off and reglue it somewhere else in the tank to start a 2ND COLONY.

Ive done this for years to spread zoas thruout my DT...to the point where I've started 4,5,6 different colonies off the original frag plug nub



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[CMMorgan]

PRO TIP:

Id use cutting pliers to trim around the plug, while NOT DISTURBING the polyps, then glue the frag plug nub to whatever you're gluing to.

....then when the colony grows out well beyond the original plug you can find the original plug and pry that off and reglue it somewhere else in the tank to start a 2ND COLONY.

Ive done this for years to spread zoas thruout my DT...to the point where I've started 4,5,6 different colonies off the original frag plug nub



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