Advanced Propagation (PICS)

[Lord Sevein]

Ok it's been about a week and a half since the procedure. Here are some shots.

(I am missing the polyp of Paly #1, polyp of Paly #2, and the stalk of Zoa #2 due to a recent move . . . but I'm sure they will turn up soon.)

Paly #2

Here you can see the stalk that was cut. It has developed a small "head" and has been growing daily. The matching polyp is doing much better and has regained all of its reaction to light/touch. I will get a picture up when I can.

Zoa #1

Here is the original polyp. As you can see it looks very good . . . in fact this polyp looks healthier than the rest of the colony.

Here is the stalk which has started to form a polyp at the cut.

Zoa #2

Here is the original polyp which has improved a lot since the fragging. Here it is closed up do to a meddling hermit . . . . It seems that the original stalk has disappeared sometime during the move.

More pictures to come. Looks like this fragging technique has potential.

-Sevein
:strooper:

Oh and sorry about the picture quality . . . not the best camera in the world.

 

[crazyfish]

This actually makes perfect sense as I think my paly's have lost heads and regrown them. I have a nice colony of red palys and I noticed they were turning brown and melting away. Of course I thought they were succumbing to the zoo disease so I decided to leave them alone and just blow off the brown stuff. About a week passed and I noticed the heads that seemed to have died off left a perfectly intact stalk. Sure enough within a week or so new polyps were forming and the colony looks better than ever.

 

[customanimalart]

very cool!

 

[Chad Vossen]

i cut a zoanthid off one of my rocks and left some tissue behind. the remaining tissue has now formed 3 micro sized polyp "buds". they have yet to open up, but they are definitely polyps.