Why you should "nail" your sps down.

fishytime · #1 02-03-2009, 03:56 AM

Here is a reason for you to glue or epoxy your sps frags/colonies to your rock. I purchased two milli frags from, who else....Greg.... about a year ago. A green one and a pink one.

Pink

Green (looking really bad).

The green one was glued to a piece of rock that just happened to fit into a natural "slot" in my existing rockwork. So it was pretty much stable from the time it was in my tank. The pink one was glued onto a rock that ended up being placed on a shelf of rock. I never glued it down because I thought I would wait and see if it was happy where it was. The pink one has been knocked down more times than "Rocky". Snails, crabs, fish, and me....you name it and this frag has been displaced by it. Falling into other corals has taken its toll on the poor pink milli frag. Here are the frags today(note the green milli has morphed into a pink with green polyps). The moral of the story is " just glue them (your frags) down somewhere when you first get them and they will do much better for you".

Pink.

What was once green but is now pink.

lobsterboy · #2 02-03-2009, 05:20 AM

sweet milli bi

Snappy · #3 02-03-2009, 05:32 AM

WOW!! Ain't reticulate evolution grand?

xtopher · #4 02-03-2009, 03:02 PM

Check out the video on mounting-pegging, you might find it more useful than "gluing" everything down right away

http://www.reefvideos.com/

Oscar · #5 02-03-2009, 09:12 PM

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Originally Posted by xtopher

Check out the video on mounting-pegging, you might find it more useful than "gluing" everything down right away

http://www.reefvideos.com/

Very interesting video. But I am not very interested in taking my LR apart to drill the rock.

I wonder if one of those flexible drill extensions would work? Or could one make a hand powered drill using a drill bit and cross member? Sort of like a chuck key for an older style power drill.