One is the loneliest number (placing single polyp?)

[dndlyon]

I recently purchased a frag from my lfs, and it isn't mounted on anything. I've only ever had SPS coral and always had frags mounted on full rocks or plugs.

I was careful, but didn't realize there was a crack. I broke a single polyp off of the larger group.

Add that I've never had one of these. At my lfs you just point at the frag, fish, or invert - most staff has no idea what they are. I bought it thinking it was a trumpet coral and a good first time LPS.

Would you cut and mount on a plug? Fit it into a hole in a rock? Something else?

I've just left them alone (kind of propped upright) because they seem pretty happy.

I'm sure I'm overthinking this but wanted to ask to be sure I give them the right foundation so they have what they need to grow.

 

[Sleeping Giant]

looks fine

 

[KrisReef]

Looks ugly that way, and prone to falling over which can damage the polyp.

Me? I would carefully cut about 1/4" below the polyp, parallel to the head to make the dead bone stubby, and glue the stub on a rock where i wanted a new colony to grow. Or mount it on a frag plug and once it got growing take it back the the store where I got it, or give it to somebody if I didn't sell it?