Mounting New SPS Immediately

[North Borders]

What do you do if the coral has already fully encrusted the top of the plug?

 

[CastAway]

What do you do if the coral has already fully encrusted the top of the plug?

I'll shave the top of the plug using a frag saw, cutting through the plug and keeping all the encrustation I can.

 

[Bpb]

I'm weird. I don't "rack" or "sandbed" new acros. They go straight to their forever spot immediately. Moving acros seems to reset their comfort zone and it takes weeks/months to get that back it seems. The sooner they start encrusting and growing the better. I don't like prolonging it by having them hop all over the tank for weeks on end trying to acclimate. Especially strange are people who use magnetized frag racks and start low and raise them higher. You should really take par measurements at the glass. The higher you get doesn't necessarily mean higher par clear to the top. Once you are out of the primary beam, it will drop sharply and you may not notice it visually

 

[jezlh95]

...as an example, I hope to buy a nice high end frag, freshly cut, from a fellow reefer soon. I know his tank somewhat, and the conditions surrounding the mother colony, and my intent is to temperature acclimate and dip only, and then to promptly grind this piece into a hole and apply a little epoxy.

I actually feel safer doing this than having it on a plug in my tank for any length of time.

By grind, do you mean literally force the frag into a hole in the rock as sonto wedge it in there? This is what I’ve been thinking of doing if that’s the case, does it work?

 

[DothanReefer]

I'm weird. I don't "rack" or "sandbed" new acros. They go straight to their forever spot immediately. Moving acros seems to reset their comfort zone and it takes weeks/months to get that back it seems. The sooner they start encrusting and growing the better. I don't like prolonging it by having them hop all over the tank for weeks on end trying to acclimate. Especially strange are people who use magnetized frag racks and start low and raise them higher. You should really take par measurements at the glass. The higher you get doesn't necessarily mean higher par clear to the top. Once you are out of the primary beam, it will drop sharply and you may not notice it visually

Like for real!! I just found this out...at sandbed up against front glass I'm my tank the Par is around 190, about two inches up it is around 210, then begins to fall dramatically the higher I go...to about half-way up the glass the PAR is around 150. Crazy!! Never would've known to actually start the frags HIGHER for less light and move down for more light....very interesting.

FYI: I have a WB Reef 100.3 with 2x Radion XR15 Pros G5 on RMS mounts...

Mind. Blown. Lol....