Pet Peeve - Do you or don't you?

[Nano]

I hate it, I bought some zoo's a long time ago on disks, and now, I'm afraid I will be stuck with them on the disk. I much prefer to just get the cuttings and glue them myself, or have them mounted on small pieces of LR that looks more like it belongs

[Chowder]

I like mounting my new pieces to bigger frag pluggs and then mount the whole thing to the rock. It instantly gives the small frags I have a ta;;er look. Kinda like Platform shoes.

[Aquattro]

I also have a few smaller frags, but I keep them in little magnets on the side. And I guess it's not so much placing the frag somewhere good, it's about permanently gluing the plug or base in place

[paddyob]

Anti plug.

Have two. Hate them. In fact. Passing on a couple rics to get one gone.

[ScubaSteve]

Yes, frag plugs **** me off. I'll raise that one further to say that it annoys me to no end when people mount frags vertically on the plugs, especially tabling acros. First of all, encrusting rates of frags are higher when flesh touches the rock. This is a scientifically proven fact. Second, if I see one more efflo or solitaryensis mounted vertically I might snap. This leads to retarded looking growth patterns.

If my frags aren't encrusted I pop them off the frag plugs in a heart beat and will usually mount them to rubble on an angle to that 1/2" of flesh is touching (I got my purple bonsai to completely encrust the rubble in just over a week this way) and mount the rubble to the rock.

That being said, I do have frag plugs in my tank from incoming frags I couldn't pop off. And it kills me every time I look at them. Grow corals, grow! I don't want to look at those stupid plugs!

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by ScubaSteve

That being said, I do have frag plugs in my tank from incoming frags I couldn't pop off. And it kills me every time I look at them. Grow corals, grow! I don't want to look at those stupid plugs!

I just take the cutters and chop it off at the base.

[ScubaSteve]

Originally Posted by Aquattro

I just take the cutters and chop it off at the base.

Ya I know. But like Lampshade said, not with the expensive ones

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by ScubaSteve

Ya I know. But like Lampshade said, not with the expensive ones

Well, ya, the expensive ones are the smallest. My red planet frag has sat in a magnet mount for a year, and it's just ready to cut off. Then I'll leave the plug and skin flap where it is and grow a new one, which I'll be able to sell in 2014 or so..

[paddyob]

Originally Posted by ScubaSteve

Ya I know. But like Lampshade said, not with the expensive ones

+1. Now, how to get Snappy using rubble...

[Dez]

Originally Posted by nanomano

thats a great Idea

I know