Nursery Assembly and Installation continued A. Assembling nursery B. Assembling nursery C. Assembling nursery Need minimum 2 strong divers. Test substrate 1 st as legs need to go in at least 24”. Lay out nursery, add legs. Note the bent ends of the steel. Note the extra bars for bracing. The grids are the construction fabric (4” x 4”) and are to support weight of cookies. We have had variable life spans of this material ( 6 years). Note cable ties are placed (2) in x fashion over each junction. D. Making ropes E/F. Affixing ropes G-I. Tagging ropes Ropes can be made in the boat, in shallow water, using SCUBA. We usually put 10-15 replicates of the same genet on each rope, 10-15 cm apart.
Coral/frag size 4-10cm. NOTE ropes should be measured (~11ft) and burn the ends so they don’t fray. We affix them in a secure knot, that can be easily untied at a later date, to either move or out plant. If the rope is short you can affix with a cable tie. Ropes need a cable tie on the middle bar so they cannot slide/swing into each other. The metal tags are cheap and easy to clean, but glare in the sunlight. The neon tags show well but are expensive. TIP put all your tags on the same end of the nursery. For growth measurements see next page. A B C E F D Photo: Annelise Hagan Photo: Louie Wray G H I E 7