lastlight's 34g solana

[lastlight]

Can someone tell me if it's normal to see some tissue recession where the 2-part epoxy contacted the frag? It's maybe 1-2mm on them from the bottom. Two of them show this today but have good polyp extension and have their colors...

[Lance]

Originally Posted by lastlight

Can someone tell me if it's normal to see some tissue recession where the 2-part epoxy contacted the frag? It's maybe 1-2mm on them from the bottom. Two of them show this today but have good polyp extension and have their colors...

Quite common Brett. Probably ok, but if you see the tissue recess anymore cut the frag off above the bad part and refrag it.

[lastlight]

When i mounted all of these I mashed the ball of epoxy into a hole/crevasse and then stuck the frags into them and sort of wrapped the epoxy around the frag's base. Is this not the best way?

[Delphinus]

Sounds OK to me. Not uncommon though, that's why I like to use superglue gel and a plug and then epoxy the plug into a spot. But in good conditions it should grow back over the base before long.

[lastlight]

These were all on plugs and I guess I wanted a cleaner look so I cut them off and re-mounted them to my rocks. But being new to this I used so much epoxy that it's pretty ugly and maybe too much touched the tissue?

[kien]

Everytime that I have ever jammed a frag into some epoxy the frag has managed to grow over the epoxy and onto the rock work. I think you'll be fine

[Lance]

Originally Posted by lastlight

These were all on plugs and I guess I wanted a cleaner look so I cut them off and re-mounted them to my rocks. But being new to this I used so much epoxy that it's pretty ugly and maybe too much touched the tissue?

Next time try leaving the frag on the plug and nipping off most of the plug with some tile cutters. Then you can epoxy the little bit of plug to the rock. Looks much nicer.

[lastlight]

Good advice Lance. Or Lance's wife. Sheesh I don't know anymore!

I was doing that then got aggressive with the cutters.

So one piece did RTN on me. I think it's RTN not STN. Took half a day what is the timeframe for RTN?

Others are all holding steady with good polyp extension. All 3 M. Confusa look great and the others had a tiny bit of recession but no change today. Fingers are crossed.