How to propigate these Palythoas

[Chucky]

As the pic shows, some of these inverts dropped off the main rock. One of them attached to the rock I put him on, as you can see on the far right.

But I've got a group of three on the ground, that no matter where I put them, they wind up on the sand an hour later.

A) Do these buggers move that far on their own?!?

B) can I carefully cut the three at their base, and put each on the rock so that they join the lone ranger? (Of course I know about palytoxin, and will use rubber gloves that I will then throw out.)[/img]

 

[Anonymous]

Have you tried super glue? It really works great.

 

[Chucky]

I thought the 'superglue' was just a facetious answer, until I read up on the subject. So what kind of superglue should I use? Is krazy glue Gel going to kill my damsel and Ocelaris clown???

What if I do the cutting within the tank - will toxin released kill them also? (I am not at all secure about doing the cutting anywhere outside of the tank in my flat)

 

[Anonymous]

I've glued plenty onto rocks. It doesn't matter what kind.....Krazy Glue is fine. I would cut it, take it out of your tank, glue (let glue dry), then place back in tank.

All done.

 

[Anonymous]

Any cyanoacrylate glue will work well.
You should not need to cut anything. Don't cut the polyps...I don't know why you would...

 

[Chucky]

Because there's three of them joined at the base - lying in the sand as you can see.

I would suppose that these Paly's stretched and bent all out of whack are trying to get what light they can?

Time to look for LEDs on a 10-gallon...

 

[Anonymous]

I'd say you should glue all three together and not try to seperate them.

 

[Chucky]

Now for the latest news - as I was working in the nano last night, NOT straining at all, I noticed that all of a sudden my heart was immediately racing. I got sweats on my forehead. I went into the kitchen, feeling OK otherwise, and took my BP - it was 159/89 which is high for me. My pulse was 105 bpm.

I pulled up the Palythoa page that gave the drugs in case my wife needed to call an ambulance, but no other symptoms developped.

Since I have never had Tachycardia like that before (it felt like I had just finished intense activity, as a Karate teacher I know my body and it's responses very well - this was extremely odd) I am wondering if I might have gotten the slightest trace of toxin in me??!

I take vasodilators to bring my hypertension down to a normalish level of 130/80 - I wonder if they might have acted as a buffer against vasoconstriction.

Or maybe it was one hell of a coincidence...because shouldn't I be DEAD minutes after no matter the amount??!!

 

[spaulr]

Always wear gloves when dealing with Zoos. There toxins effect are different from species to speciies - and probably colony to colony. I think i read on another post that some tribal species uses the poison on darts.