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[edit] Zoanthus Overall Propagation Potential: Good Preferred Methods: Cutting underneath polyps Attachment: Easy if careful Healing: Easy Demand: Medium-high

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Propagating Zoanthids is pretty easy. As your zoanthids grow, they can start to spread into unwanted areas. One method of preventing this is having them on a small rock or plug in the sand, so they won't spread past the sand.

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Very important with any of the zoanthids and palythoas, they contain palytoxin, potentially very harmful if exposed. A squirt in the eye, some on your bare hand that then rubs your eye or goes unwashed into your mouth, or through a cut on the skin could be fatal, or at the very least make you very sick.

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To frag these corals, first remove the rock/substrate they are attached to, and place on your work area. Put on your protective goggles and rubber gloves (or vinyl if allergic). Many methods of fragging the coral. Often with a razor blade cutting the connection between polyps and using this to lift off the rock can be used. This potentially causes the rupture or incomplete removal of the polyps. My preferred method as espoused by Anthony Calfo is to use a sharp wood chisel and scrape a layer of the live rock off underneath the polyps, thus giving a better method of gluing to your new rock or plug or disk.

When attaching these corals, use a quick setting superglue and a small piece of rubble or any of the available disks or plugs hobbyists and businesses make available. You can attach any amount of poylps to your substrate, depending on how long you wish for them to grow over the surface. It is often prudent to dip the coral in a solution of Seachem's Reefdip or similar product to disinfect. Or simply soak in a container of saltwater to wash off any toxin/mucus shed from the fragging process.

--Forestal 20:54, 12 March 2006 (CST)