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What is everyone doing to glue coral directly to glass? I have a few montis that I have been trying to glue down to the bottom glass using superglue and coral putty. They only seem to hold for about 3-4 days than the flow moves them to the other side of the tank. I just need them to hold long enough to start encrusting :)
 

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i'm assuming you are trying to glue the coral itself and nothing else;

glue a small piece of rock or frag plug on the glass. glue the coral on the rock. profit?
 
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i'm assuming you are trying to glue the coral itself and nothing else;

glue a small piece of rock or frag plug on the glass. glue the coral on the rock. profit?
No.....it is glued to a frag disk then glued to the glass....which is why it doesn't make sense that the glue won't hold lol.
 

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If you’re never gonna want to see the glass again. Take a bit of sand paper and scratch the glass so the glue has something to grab
 

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No.....it is glued to a frag disk then glued to the glass....which is why it doesn't make sense that the glue won't hold lol.
maybe try a tile circle or square? should be heavy enough to stay put and large enough to help the monti's base out and grow over the tile.
 

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Did you scrape the glass? Also sometimes a small ball of epoxy glue the frag plug to top of epoxy then some super glue on under side of epoxy and double bang it
 
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Did you scrape the glass? Also sometimes a small ball of epoxy glue the frag plug to top of epoxy then some super glue on under side of epoxy and double bang it
I did not scrape it, but I did try the putty and glue together. I will try again with cleaning the glass first.
 
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maybe try a tile circle or square? should be heavy enough to stay put and large enough to help the monti's base out and grow over the tile.
I thought about that but I was trying to keep the bottom as clean as possible without adding anything additional. Might come to that though,
 

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