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Attaching corals to rock?
ok so this is a noob question.
but how do i attach corals directly to my live rock? they always come on a plug thing. do i need to remove it off the plug somehow? |
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Yes, remove it from the plug then use super glue gel to attach it to the rock. Take the coral out, snap it off the plug, dry the skeleton base, dab the glue gel on it, then attach it to the rock in your tank. Turn off water flow to allow the glue to set. Make sure the glue is gel and not the regular runny stuff.
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cool thanks. the glue will cure underwater with no adverse effects to the fish?
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Get some underwater epoxy , the kind that comes as a stick and you knead it together . I either drill a hole in the rock or find a crevice to stick the end of the plug in and then make a ring of epoxy to stick to the underside of the plug . Push the plug into the hole until the epoxy sticks to the rock and your done . Before i started doing this all my frags ended up in the sand and it was driving me nuts.
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anyway to remove the plug? it doesnt look very natural
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It will in no time be all encrusted over and you won't see the plugs any more. Sometimes I take sidecutters to cut the knobby thing off of the plug. It takes patience I started my reef mostly from frags and you can't see any plugs anywhere. If it was encrusted, I'd usually leave the plugs for the sake of the corals.
Last edited by Dez; 04-04-2011 at 12:53 AM. |
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cool, thanks for the tip
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