Fragging zoas?
 

This is probably a very easy questions for most of you out there. I have a small zoa colony which is infested with aptasia. I like to frag the zoos. Can someone kindly advise me on how to frag and mount them onto disc. thanks

use a dremel or a tile wet saw, best with a diamond bit saw the back end of the colony and chip it accordingly.
No wet saw then use a small chisel or maybe a flat head screw and a hammer...

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They are extremely toxic, as in 2nd most toxic substance on earth. Wear gloves and safety glasses in case it squirts. Use a work surface that can be thrown away or that will only be used for fragging.

Lots of people never have a problem, but it can be very dangerous if you don't know the risks.

thanks

When I frag mine I use a set of bone like cutters they useally work unless the rock is supper hard then I use my dremmel I have diamond cutting blade and it cuts the rock supper easy it even has a attachment that I can use under water.

razor bload under the mat i can remove hundreds of polyps without cutting any rock or damaging any z0os.

if no mat then use a diamond blade to cut from underneathe the rock , make channels left and right , up and down of about a 1/2" or %50 of the rock width.

use a flat top screw driver and insert it into one of the channels, twist the screw driver and wala......if any skin is attached use a sharp razor to cut the left over skin.

this is the best way with little damage to polyps.


ps....palytoxin is just that......."paly" toxin

if it helps i make on average over 2000 zoa frags a year ;)

Caution should be used at any time when handling marine inverts that being said I couldn't agree more with this statement.

This compound is not found in zoas & has only been isolated in a handful of palythoa species (notibly Palythoa toxica ).

I wear protection to protect myself from the unknown, not the unexistant overly scapegoated "palytoxin" that everyone magically gets and then recovers from.