Moving into a new area in Reefing . . . I think

[Questin]

Ok, so I want to try my hand at propagation, or at least I think I do. I have this extra tank that has been sitting around for a few years. Its that tall Eclipse 5 or whatever. Anyways


I have set it up and it is ready to go, nice filter, hang and refugium, a nice light unit, but I guess I am unsure of a few things.

I am a Zoa guy, so that is mainly what I will toss in there, so what should be in the tank besides the frags? I am doing bare bottom, but I tossed in a single piece of live rock.

Should there be a lot of cleanup crew, any fish, should I toss sand in there, change the water a lot more or less. Any info on what else to do for this small frag tank?

I just want to find out if this is something I would like to do or not on a large scale.

 

[bigsittingrock]

I wouldn't put fish in it. Then you have to feed it. With no sand I would just do snails. If you have room put in more LR. Thats just what I would do.

 

[Huhhhhh]

I would find some live rock rubble or some other kind of pieces that they can attach to. Makes it a lot easier to remove and sell instead of scraping them off the glass and then attaching to something. Maybe use rubber gloves too if it's going to be all zoo's could be a lot of toxins waiting to bite you.

 

[Questin]

I have 200 plugs, so that part is taken care of.

 

[Rocmtnreef]

Questin

Questin

I am interested in frags as well. I am a little confused here since I thought that fragging was reserved for coral, ricordia, and discoma. These can be cut in half or eights etc. and will regrow into a whole. So how would you frag a zoo? I assume that you would take three or more zoo and serpeater them from the colony and let them reattach to your plugs while in the eclipse 5.

Beyond that I say that the frag tank should be one wher eyou can put your newly fraged pieces without fear that the water flwo would remove them from the plug but still maintain good water flow, has 4 watt plus per gallon lighting, cleanup crew as described above, and a good nice big flat area for your newly fragged pieces I.E rack or rock.

I have been successful at fragging a piece of ricordia and discoma in my main tank by fragging the piece and setting the pieces in a shallow glass dish with substrate and fine netting on top to hold it while they pieces attched themselves. I have taken a few pieces of zoo and seperated them from parent colony then attach using super glue (this has been met with some success and failure) main problem is i cant get the pieces to stay on the rock).
These were not pieces that didn't have so rock or substrate aready attached.

If you have suggestions or know of an online article for fragging zoos I'd be happy to have it. I'd also be glad to swap some pices of current zoo colony to expand my variety. Let me know how it goes. I also thought about setting up an old 20 gal to do this with. I cant find a place yet inside the house to do so.

Shannon