Hello from Loveland

[Shaunv]

Ok cool. I will give it a try. How long can the corals be exposed to the air before I need to dip them back in the water? I will have to take the rock out to frag it. It has zoas, paly's and a mushroom on it. I will try to get all the teal paly's off because the are almost invasive. I will also have to pick up a bunch of frag plugs. Hopefully I can find room in my tank to house them temporarily until I can take them into an LFS or trade to someone. I will probably list some on Craigslist too. I have at least 30 polyps of the paly's. also, some of the zoas I want to keep are now growing out of the middle of some of the paly's stalks. Can I cut this out and save them or should I just leave them on the paly's?

 

[Shaunv]

If you notice my avatar, all the zoas on the left are now completely covered by paly's.

 

[Vdubjetta01]

The zoa' s and paly's should be fine out of water long enough to frag (5 mins or so) just have a container ready to put them in for transport. Or if your going to just return them back to your tank. I haven't fragged a whole lot of stuff but the only thing that doesn't like being out of water is sps.

WELCOME to MASC! Lots of nice helpful people on here.

 

[Dr.DiSilicate]

Hello from Loveland

Wear goggles when dragging zoa. Sps are fine out if water as well.

 

[Dr.DiSilicate]

Hello from Loveland

Wear goggles when fragging zoa. Sps are fine out if water as well. I've seen sps out of water in Australia for 2 hours at a time during very low tide.

 

[Vdubjetta01]

Wear goggles when fragging zoa. Sps are fine out if water as well. I've seen sps out of water in Australia for 2 hours at a time during very low tide.

Thanks for clueing me in amongst my vast research into getting my first 2 sps' s I had read that someone's birdsnest tips started to brown from exposure to air maybe this was a prolonged event that I had read about.

 

[sethsolomon]

yah zoas and sps are fine out of water for 20 min ish. plenty of time to frag and let the glue set.

 

[Shaunv]

Thanks everyone for the input. I will try to get to the LFS today and pick up some frag plugs so I can work on it in the next few days. I have goggles and gloves already. Should I get some bone cutters and try to cut the rock from under the paly's or will the scalpel be fine?

 

[Craigar]

Hello from Loveland

Get on our brs group but and get the stuff cheaper

 

[sethsolomon]

I just use a standard razor blade for those razor blade scrapers. That will cut most live rock with a little bit of effort.

 

[Shaunv]

Thought I would insert my current list of corals here.

[TABLE="width: 159"]
[TR]
[TD]Blue Striped Mushroom[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Eagle Eye Zoas[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Radioactive Dragon Eye[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Green Bay Packer[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Teal Pally[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Orange Rimmed Zoa[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Ked Reds Zoa[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Orange Sunkist Zoa[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Blue zoa[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]small green zoas[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Alabama Blue Tort[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Lavender Mushroom[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Orange Montipora[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Green Star Polyp[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Pink Anthelia[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Jedi Mind Trick[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Pom Pom Xenia[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Purple Mushroom[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Kenya Tree[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Rainbow Ricordea[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Green Ricordea[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Hydnophora
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Acan red/green
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Merletti Pink w/blue eye
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Cali Tort[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]ORA Green Birds Nest[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Tyree Satosa[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Blue Mushroom[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Green Mushroom[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Pipe Organ mint
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Fire and Ice Zoas[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Pineapple Tree[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Red Mushroom[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Bowser Paly[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Barbie Millepora[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]tri-color valida[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Yuma[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]

 

[sethsolomon]

Let me know when you have a frag available of that alabama blue tort.

 

[Shaunv]

will do. I just picked up a few more corals of which I will be DBTC'ing some. I got a Hollywood Stunner Chalice (DBTC), an Idaho Grape Monti (DBTC), a Purple Haze Monti, Pink Barbie Millie, and Candy Apple Pink Zoas.