| Coral Info, How to propagate LPS: Tools: scissors, hammers, chisels, Dermel, cable cutters, reef-safe cyanoacrylate adhesive glue, protective gloves, protective eye wear, and a first aid kit just in case. You should only attempt propagation on well established healthy brood colonies to reduce the chance for infection. Simply take your cutting tool of choice and break a small section off the skeleton of the coral and use a a reef-safe cyanoacrylate adhesive to glue them to plug or rock. For LPS polyps it's a good rule of thumb for chip/cut off 3-4 polyps. For plate corals such as fungia they can simply be cut in half and will heal and reform a circle in a few month. How to propagate SPS: Tools: Wire or cable cutters, reef-safe cyanoacrylate adhesive glue, protective gloves, protective eye wear, and a first aid kit just in case. You should only attempt propagation on well established healthy brood colonies to reduce the chance for infection. Using your cutters break fragments from the brood stock by twisting the pilers to snap pieces off and not actually cut. Place a drop reef-safe cyanoacrylate adhesive glue on the plug or rock which you plan to attach your frags to, and dip in some tank water to help harden. Now place a place a drop of glue on the bottom of each frag to completely cover the exposed broken skeleton. Blend the glue on the frag and rock or plug. Now place your new frag into your grow out tank one glue has hardened How to propagate Mushrooms: Tools: Wire or cable cutters, rubber bands, pieces of bridal vial netting, reef-safe cyanoacrylate adhesive glue, protective gloves, protective eye wear, and a first aid kit just in case. You should only attempt propagation on well established healthy brood colonies to reduce the chance for infection. Fill a container with live rock rubble or large clean pieces of gravel. You'll want to be sure they have no algae which may out compete your mushroom frags. Cut the heads off several of your mushrooms making sure to leave some of the stalk behind on both area you cut and the mushroom. These stalks will eventually regenerative giving you new mushrooms. Take the mushrooms and cut each one into pie shaped pieces and put them in you container. By sure each cutting as a piece of stalk as this is what attaches to the material in your container. Now that you have all your cuttings in the container, cover the entire container with bridal veil netting and use a rubber band to hold it tight over the container. Place the container in an area of low flow and lighting. After about 3 weeks your cuttings should have now attached to the material in the container and can be removed an attached to larger rocks or plugs. How to propagate Zothanids: Tools: NONE Simply place small pieces of live rock next to Zoanthid colonies and allowing them to spread. WARNING: Zoanthids contain Palytoxin a potent neurotoxin as a defense mechanism. Extreme caution should be exercised when housing this species and protective gloves should be worn when working in your tank. Avoid working in your tank if you have cuts or open wounds. Educate anyone who may interact with your tank as a precaution and keep information for medical personal in case something happens wouldn't be a bad idea either. Typical symptoms of palytoxin poisoning are angina-like chest pains, asthma-like breathing difficulties, tachycardia, unstable blood pressure, hemolysis (destruction of red blood cells), and an electrocardiogram showing an exaggerated T wave. The onset of symptoms is rapid, and death usually follows just minutes after. Antidotes for the toxin include vasodilators, such as papverine and isosorbide nitrate, if injected into the heart immediately -www.Wikipedia.org |