Help me frag my huge Gobstopper colony!
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boxfishpooalot
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I'm new to it never fragged. But don't breathe the air when you frag, don't get any on your skin and wear eye protection. Use a sharp razor blade and cut as close to the base as possible. But before you cut have a drop of drying superglue ready on a frag plug. Put it on and let the glue dry then it's done as far as I know.
Sure ,go in with a pair of bone cutters and nip away what you want , if the rock is a round boulder type rock then make some slots using the cutters and force a flat top screw driver in there and wedge it apart , liverock is very soft .
As for not breathing in the fumes I doubt there would be any if fragging in the tank and paly toxin by its self is not airborne so it would need to be converted to that state like boiling water to steam for example.
If you can remove it would be a lot easier.
I frag hundreds of zoas at a time sometimes and they are out of water for lengthily periods of time and watered down if I feel like its been too long.
If you can't find bone cutters a pair of wire cutters with a sharp nose does the trick just fine.
cloak
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I would just use some scissors and cut each polyp as close to the base as you can. Then superglue the polyp to a small piece of rubble. I just did this to some Devil's Armor palythoas about 10 minutes ago and everything seemed to work out ok. Hopefully it will be open by tomorrow.
Rawby
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Thanks for the input. Ive fragged before just doing all this inside my tank is another can of worms. You would suggest taking a sliver of rock with the zoas correct?
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Rawby
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They are staying to the plugs? Let me know if they open up tomorrow. Good luck!
Here's what I'd do. Remove the rock, drill a hole the size of a frag plug "pedestal" into the rock in the middle of the zoos, then 1 tiny drop of superglue gel to hold it in place. Give it about 2 weeks, and all the surrounding zoos or palys that were touching the plug with their bases will be stuck to the plug. Cut the polyps right near the original rock, keeping as much of the base of the polyp on the frag plug as you can. I used to have a huge colony of mean greens, and I'd buy live rock rubble for 25 cents each, drop a rock right in the middle of the colony, and 2 weeks later could cut it out. They would grow up the glass, I'd "shave" them off with a razor blade, and rubber band them down. I made hundreds of frags of those back in the day (about 20 years ago)
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