How to move corals within tank

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What is the best way to move a coral that one already glued and epoxied in. Am I stuck with where I put it?

Would really rather not have to take my rocks out and chisel
 
Depends on how glued and epoxied in it is I guess. A pair of bone cutters will usually be enough to pop it off of the rock work.
 
Bone cutters are your friend. If it is a very large colony then you may need to use more heavy duty hardware though . . .
 
If you use just super glue, it usually isn’t stuck on too well so you could likely pop it off by hand. If you do the epoxy putty/super glue sandwich it’s probably stuck on pretty good and the bone cutters would suffice to leverage it off the rock more or less rather than actually cutting anything.
 

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