Placing frags~

[justjes45]

So I have some frags/corals that are ready to move onto the rocks. How is this done? They are Acclimated to my tank nicely and I know where I want to put them, but I don't want them to look like I glued a bunch of T's all over the place. I cannot seem to break off the post and I do not want to hurt the little creature glued to it so what do you do?

 

[Slm222]

I take bone cutters or if you don't have those wire cutters work well for breaking off the posts. ceramic is a bit harder than the aragonite ones. but either way I do it in a bucket of tank water. and if not that a diamond cut off wheel on a dremel works.

 

[justjes45]

Ok..wow- that won't hurt or shock the coral? I will try! Thanks!

 

[Blue Lip]

You can go to Wallgreens & get a pair of hang nail clippers & clip the coral at the base. The coral left on the plug will continue to grow & when it gets large enough you will have a frag to trade/sell. Just superglue your coral to a rock. It will eventually encrust the superglue so you don't even know its there. I recomend gel type. There are also types of hardening putty made for frags available.

 

[dturner]

Agree with above, but I use a combo of reef safe purple epoxy and superglue.

I dry the bottom of the frag plug after cutting the stem off, add some super glue gel (I get extra thick from BRS), then I put an appropriately sized ball of epoxy on top of the glue and add another glob of glue, then place the frag on my rock work. The hardened epoxy is easily removed from rock work later if you ever move the frag.

I could never get my frags to glue properly by just using superglue alone.

 

[Gamma]

So I have some frags/corals that are ready to move onto the rocks. How is this done? They are Acclimated to my tank nicely and I know where I want to put them, but I don't want them to look like I glued a bunch of T's all over the place. I cannot seem to break off the post and I do not want to hurt the little creature glued to it so what do you do?

I just take my cheap Husky cutters from home depot

and pop them right off...no problem! Then of course use three step method to attach...glue-> coraline epoxy-> glue and they are attached and my huge turbo snail cannot even move them after a few minutes!

 

[justjes45]

Lol... Yeah the snails really are the troublemakers in my tank !

 

[veselym]

I do exactly what blue lip said...just cut the posts off the plug and use superglue to put it where you want

I use BRS tube glue and it works very well