Grafted zoas and grafted palys

[CLINTOS]

Post all info and pics of your grafted paly's/zoa's here please

It is the nuclear green and purple death palythoa that I grafted together using a razor blade and allowing them to join together naturally creating a grafted paly like the precedure in which they use with some plants/roots etc I think.

 

[RyanSweatt2004]

how did you get them to heal together and not separately? I have been wanting to do this for a while with a metallic orange and metallic blue mushrooms.

 

[mike_cmu04]

THats pretty cool i didnt know that they would heal together like that.

 

[camaroracer214]

shame is that they won't produce mixed offspring. one or two new polyps might have some mixed coloration, but they'll just revert back to normal from what others have reported.

 

[CLINTOS]

shame is that they won't produce mixed offspring. one or two new polyps might have some mixed coloration, but they'll just revert back to normal from what others have reported.

You're probably right.

It's been 2 months and the nuclear death is still the same 50/50%

first offspring 90% G / 10% P

second offspring 70% P / 30% G

Just started to graft these zoas instead of paly's:

zoas instead of play's:

even if it doesn't work I still like the fact that the mother stayed the way she is so far.

Do you know if the mother ends up going back to normal?

thanks

 

[RiddlerJoe]

Clintos you do some amazing work. I'm really rooting for you to have some new colours of Zoas and Palys.

Riddler

 

[NyReefNoob]

by grafting arent you cutting zoa in half and glueing them down together ? the others you just have on same rock and hoping they morph together ? ive had 5 types grow together on a rock and never morphed into anything different

 

[Slummies]

would you be willing to give us a step by step guide on how to do this

 

[CLINTOS]

Thanks I hope it work's.

So far the orange zoa in which I sliced his head off is growing on top off and maybe into the sliced tip of the blue zoa.

I'll try some pics tonight

The orange/blue zoas look to be healing good. if it doesn't graft together this way then I will use my old technique in which worked for the paly's

NyReefNoob

the pics are just the ones that I am attempting to graft together.

for zoas:

I sliced the head off of one color of zoa and then I sliced the tip of another colored zoa and placed the 2 sliced parts of each zoa together while forcing them into each other using crazy glue gel

for paly's:

I allowed them to grow into each other then I sliced them multiple times into each other and up sprouted the nuclear death paly

 

[CLINTOS]

would you be willing to give us a step by step guide on how to do this

You just need to start off with a small plug or L.R and put 1 nuclear green and 1 purple death

then wait until they grow into each other tightly

from there you take a single razor blade approx 2"L x 1"W

It's hard to explain this part

then slice horizontal and vertical while trying to mix them into each other while chopping them up left and right.



This is why I am attempting a new technique with the zoas because with the paly's it is probably hit or miss in most cases but for me it worked the first time.

I just want to be able to one day grow them on separate plugs which is why I am attempting to slice the head off of one color zoa this time in order to move it over to another plug full of another color of zoa

 

[CLINTOS]

just learning to use my dslr but here is a few for now from a old camera

It's still too early to tell if it grafted or not but I would say 70% chance of it being grafted with this first attempt.

The blue zoo that has a slice in it's bottom side is slowly melting/grafting into the sliced off orange zoa head that has crazy glued applied to it's side in order to hold it into place as they do there thing. finger's crossed.

 

[jcolletteiii]

I've often wondered if this same effect could be accomplished by injecting a piece of a zoa or paly into another. So, using a large gauge needle, just plunge it through a Z or P polyp collecting a 'plug' of the flesh within the needle. Then, using a blade, slightly cut the flesh on the oral disk of another Z or P, insert the syringe with the plug intot he new polyp part way, and using the back pressure in the syringe, shoot it into the new polyp.

You woulldn't be doing a half-and-half, but it might produce some interesting effects, and it would be much quicker.

 

[CLINTOS]

Now that's a good idea.

 

[CLINTOS]

first try in auto with a 18-55 len's

better in person

hopefully soon when I pick up a new paly I will incorporate a 3rd into him making him 1/3 P.D,1/3 N.G and 1/3 greenish/blue.

all zoas died but showed promise with the sliced off head and sliced off side technique
I was impatient and tried to graft him better by slicing him while he was healing and grafting

 

[Rickyrooz1]

Very cool!

 

[CLINTOS]

Thanks

If any one want's to try 2 other high end paly's I would love to see how they turn out so I can copy it in the future and order the paly's If I like the outcome.

here are the razor's I used

 

[CLINTOS]

any coral propagator's that want to attempt this.

should look at my first pic in the thread it kind of look's ugly but the thing that is great about this is that every attempted graft is different and once you get that right graft that you like you can honestly call it a real L.E created only by you something that may be laying in the ocean with million's of others for all that anyone knows just not yet discovered.

or the 2 in which you chose to graft might of never crossed path's in nature because they were harvested from 1000's of K's away from one another

with that purposely made L.E you can take your razor and slice it in half carefully to make 2 and so on

so in theory you can fill a plug with that exact morph through slicing in half which later on once sold will give off alternating morph's

with splitting single paly's you just need to slice in half cleanly scoring a few times in the same spot then you let heal and if it doesn't split try again in 2-5 day's and it will eventually split with in 2-3 try's.

 

[agus3dfx]

I began to fragment some zoanthids ( demon eyes and purple hornet ) and found this polyp

 

[Xerothermike]

Hey, anyone thought to graft MORE than two together? Even though it's strenuous, might turn out to dazzle.