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garagebrian
Wed, 9th Mar 2005, 04:04 PM
Hey all,

I got some zoas last night and put them in my QT tank, attached are some pics. This was under 6500K light, so they will look MUCH better under my 10,000K MH and super actinics :)

I do have a question, in the overview pic, the smallest frag of the orange and pink centered zoas has almost no rock, it is basically just polyps and there are several on the underneath side. I've never fragged zoas before(I know the precautions about protective eyegear and gloves), but can i just use tweezers to pull the underneath side of the zoa mat off of the top zoa mat? Or will I need to razor blade the mats apart? Does this make sense?

B.
jaded
Wed, 9th Mar 2005, 04:20 PM
I just stuck mine in a hole on a larger rock and now I have thousands where I once had only a few... they don't seem to "jump" well so maybe i just got lucky that I found a great rock to sit the smaller rock into.

I've now done this several times using the same original zoa rock with great results
Reef69
Wed, 9th Mar 2005, 04:41 PM
I just carefully rip the mat from the rock...
jaded
Wed, 9th Mar 2005, 04:45 PM
this may be the first time I've ever heard/read the term "carefully rip"... I like it!!!
Reef69
Wed, 9th Mar 2005, 04:59 PM
well..you get the idea... :shades
jaded
Wed, 9th Mar 2005, 05:05 PM
I'm not giving you a hard time... I just like the term, it applies VERY often in this hobby. One of my new favorite oxymorons
garagebrian
Wed, 9th Mar 2005, 05:07 PM
I'll see how good I can carefully rip it then :) Thx for the tips.
jaded
Wed, 9th Mar 2005, 05:13 PM
see what I mean... that just works
Reef69
Wed, 9th Mar 2005, 05:41 PM
no no, didnt take it hard..just the best way i could umm..explain it..like..gently..rip them off...lol....remember...geeeently :skeezy