Do you glue your corals?

[Macdaddynick1]

As title suggests… Do you guys glue your corals to your rock scape? I just watched a reef aquaria design video where they were adding corals to one of their builds and they just placed all their corals on the rock and didn’t use any glue. There were also no frag plugs. So this got me wondering how you all approached coral placement.

Glue or not to glue to the rock and do you remove your frag plugs.

If you are not gluing, im curious how long it takes the coral to “latch” on?

I cut about 1” segments of CPVC and putty or glue that to the rock. It fits most frag plugs perfectly and holds large colonies. That way if I need to, dip, frag or move the coral I don’t have to rip it off the rockwork and reglue it. There’s a member on here who sells these nifty little seats (what he calls them) that work pretty much the same but with a benefit of coral being locked into one position. After having AEFW, I would never glue corals to rockwork again if I could help it.

 

[VintageReefer]

In this entire system I believe only one coral is actually epoxied in place
I know a lot is on magnet shelves on the front glass; but if you look past them, the entire tank is covered in corals. The only one fixed in place is the teal hammer showing through the center

 

[CBonito]

I for years have used HoldFast coral putty and recently 2 part putty by Tunze

It's good for sticking rocks together too. Corals seem to be able to grow over it pretty easily too.

 

[CBonito]

In this entire system I believe only one coral is actually epoxied in place
I know a lot is on magnet shelves on the front glass; but if you look past them, the entire tank is covered in corals. The only one fixed in place is the real hammer showing through the center

This is pleasant chaos. hahaha

 

[VintageReefer]

This is pleasant chaos. hahaha

 

[CBonito]

That's awesome.

 

[mmorrison55]

I cut about 1” segments of CPVC and putty or glue that to the rock. It fits most frag plugs perfectly and holds large colonies. That way if I need to, dip, frag or move the coral I don’t have to rip it off the rockwork and reglue it. There’s a member on here who sells these nifty little seats (what he calls them) that work pretty much the same but with a benefit of coral being locked into one position. After having AEFW, I would never glue corals to rockwork again if I could help it.

A pic would help, but I assume yiu mean you cut a smal 1” pvc pipe i to segments them glue that to your rock and then simply place your frag plug into that pvc pipe that is glued to the rock?

Sounds like a neat setup so it would allow you to easily pull the coral out for any maintenance but at the same time secure it enough so that it will not blow over from flow or get knocked over from urchins or fish.

 

[Macdaddynick1]

A pic would help, but I assume yiu mean you cut a smal 1” pvc pipe i to segments them glue that to your rock and then simply place your frag plug into that pvc pipe that is glued to the rock?

Sounds like a neat setup so it would allow you to easily pull the coral out for any maintenance but at the same time secure it enough so that it will not blow over from flow or get knocked over from urchins or fish.

Exactly. If you putty it like this it could hold a full size colony with no problem.

 

[mmorrison55]

In this entire system I believe only one coral is actually epoxied in place
I know a lot is on magnet shelves on the front glass; but if you look past them, the entire tank is covered in corals. The only one fixed in place is the teal hammer showing through the center

Beautiful