Zoa Frag Advice/Process

[+Grog]

Never really did much fragging before.  Minimal at best.    Got in some cool blue and orange (Fire and Ice) zoas on a frag plug the other day.

I want to propogate this new frag to other plugs, so my thought is to surround the original with empty plugs, let it grow onto them, then separate afterwards.   Picture of my layout with the original plug in the middle.

This will be done in a rack in a dedicated frag tank.

Is this the proper way?

[Timfish]

That's the easiest way.  Another method would be keep the frag plug flush in sand and as the zoa polyps grow off the plug onto the sand they can be pulled off and glued to a plug.  It's important they have actually grown onto sand so glue will have something to stick to.  Glue rarely sticks to polyp tissue and polyps will usually float off in a few days.  A third way is to sepreate the polyps and set them in a bowl of sand and once they grab ahold of some sand glue them to a frag plug.

[mFrame]

Yep, or surround the original plug completely with other plugs or gravel/shells, that way you're covered whichever direction they grow.