Gluing broken piece back onto colony

[ThePurple12]

I was moving some rocks around and bumped an acro colony, breaking a small branch off. Can I glue the branch back onto the colony?

 

[Gareth elliott]

I would just make frags, where you glue will die and require it to grow back over it. At least imo.

 

[Terri Caton]

You can but the area where you glue it will never grow correctly.

Just frag it.

 

[LobsterOfJustice]

I have glued branches back on and it’s okay

 

[ThePurple12]

Aw man! I just glued it to a different rock! When you glued branches back on, did you notice slower growth or bleaching or anything like that?

 

[jd-woodlands]

I’ve glued back on directly to stags and echinata and others with no issues. You can also glue right next to the base and the frag and colony will merge.

 

[ThePurple12]

Thanks. The branch shouldn't be too hard to dettach from its new rock. I'm gonna try it

 

[Tom Blevins]

I glue different SPS on my tabling not so fancy acro's like it's a rock with no problem.

 

[SeaDweller]

why? just glue it somewhere else, or sell it for $$$

 

[Tom Blevins]

why? just glue it somewhere else, or sell it for $$$

Because the new one is nicer in my opinion :)

 

[ThePurple12]

why? just glue it somewhere else, or sell it for $$$

It was a fairly big piece, and the colony didn't look as nice without it. I have no one to sell to

 

[SeaDweller]

It was a fairly big piece, and the colony didn't look as nice without it. I have no one to sell to

post a pic

 

[ThePurple12]

I glue different SPS on my tabling not so fancy acro's like it's a rock with no problem.

By different, do you mean different species?

 

[Tom Blevins]

By different, do you mean different species?

Sure, no montis though they will take over anything!

 

[ThePurple12]

Cool

 

[ThePurple12]

post a pic

Here it is, complete with stress slime:

Maybe you can see the glue

 

[SeaDweller]

Here it is, complete with stress slime:

Maybe you can see the glue

like nothing ever happened...

 

[Ashish Patel]

Happens to every reefer.. frag it to different are or Rock. Always good to have a healthy backup in case the original one perishes, I've have saved may colonies from complete extinction in my tank from broken frags.

 

[Braves Fan]

Make a frag ,, trade it or give to someone that doesn't have it ,, maybe you will get another frag down the road :)