Crab broke up my Palythoa Frag can I save it?

RedFishReef · Feb 20, 2021

I bought my first 3 frags a week ago today. The one in the back was the Paly at it’s finest, at least in my tank. At the LFS it fell off the plug during bagging but i took it anyway. After a few days i loosely attached it to some dried epoxy with fishing line. My blue legged hermit crabs had been messing with it a good bit. Tonight i found it totally dismembered and the biggest crab messing with it. Are the loose pieces salvageable? Can i glue them to a rock? What can I do? Or are they crab food now?

polyppal · Feb 20, 2021

Yeah they are probably still good, just use some tweezers to push the base into a dab of glue. Zoas are very resilient, you essentially chop them off at the bottom like that to frag them anyways.