Producing the most frags possible...

[jafoca]

So lets say i have a colony of a pretty cool palythoa that I am going to try and sell for something like 10$ per polyp.

I have about 50 of these now, all on one rock.

If I want to propagate these polyps, which pretty much cover their current rock, should I split them off into something like two polyps per frag plug, then let those grow out, then frag them out further? Or should I split them into 3-4 polyps per frag plug, and start selling them right away?

I guess my thinking is that the more polyps I hang onto, the more frags I can produce down the road... Sortof an exponential thing. I keep all the polyps for now, divided into smaller groups where they have more space to grow, then each polyp has the potential to grow new polyps, and therefore the quantity increases quickly.

Does this make sense?

 

[BigBadZoaDaddy]

Yes........

 

[Kigs!]

there was this concept explained in Who Dah?'s article on fragging in zoaid.com
http://www.zoaid.com/articles003.php

btw, what palys are you fragging?

 

[jabre]

I've seen some guys using tumbled marble tiles as fragplugs. What if you split yours in 3 to 4 polyps and fix each on a tile and let them cover the whole tile. Then you arrange the covered tiles together with empty tiles like a chessboard.

By this way the palys can cover the empty tiles from all four sites. I think that would be the fastest way to cover new frag'tiles'. But you have to be patient till you got enough tiles covered for the 'chessboard'.

I want to try this method when my fragtank has cycled.

 

[jafoca]

there was this concept explained in Who Dah?'s article on fragging in zoaid.com
http://www.zoaid.com/articles003.php

btw, what palys are you fragging?

I will be fragging Desert Fox palys and another unnamed paly that is amazing!

THanks for the link!

 

[jafoca]

lol.. I think that method is called "El CHupacabra's Magic Carpet"

saw it on nano-reef

 

[jabre]

lol.. I think that method is called "El CHupacabra's Magic Carpet"

saw it on nano-reef

lol I've seen it there too.

But it profits best from the exponential thing. Having one or four polyps glued on a fragplug or having lots of polyps around the plug growing from all sites is a big difference.

 

[Azurel]

I would have to agree with you Jeremy....Not to mention that a large colony of zoas will only grow on the outside edges. The polyps in the center usually will not reproduce due to lack of room and competition with each polyp that surrounds it....

 

[Kigs!]

what was that whole deal with his "sweet spot"? he made such a big deal out of it but no pics ever... why is he so well known again? anybody could stock a tank full of zoas and get a totm.