Attach toadstool to LR?

[cjj14u]

I just aquired a small (1") toadstool that is not mounted. What should I use to mount it to LR? I have tried "wedging" it in several places but my lawnmower ("bulldozer") bleny and the rest of the CUC keep dumping it off the rocks...
Have never mounted a frag.
Thanks.

 

[der_wille_zur_macht]

I've had success rubber banding them to a piece of rock, then gluing the rock where I want it in the tank.

Sometimes, you get "lucky" and the rubber band cuts the coral in half, resulting in two smaller frags growing next to eachother.

 

[shereth]

I had some success with using a rubber band to hold the toadstool in place until it began to attach itself. You may not be able to, depending on the size/shape of the liverock and so on, but if you do make sure it's not too tight - mine was at first and it was pinching off the stalk of the toadstool and making it fold over. Yikes!

 

[fkbsar]

I have one that just sort of refused to attach, tried to rubber band it, tooth picked it, etc. in the display tank. And like you said every time I looked around it was laying in the sand. Sooo....I picked out a nice looking small piece of liverock and tooth picked it with a rubberband attached to the rock in the sump and left if there for one week in that low flow and it attached.

 

[Wrobel278]

The rubber band works on smaller rocks, but on larger pieces I used fishing line. I wrapped the line around the rock an toadstool crossing the frag so it couldnt blow off in any direction. Sotr off like you would put a ribbon on a gift box. Leave the line on for a week, and it will attach. Then just cut the fishing line off.

 

[B-Willz]

I have placed a small tuperware tub on the bottom of the tank with small peices of rock and put the toads in there and let them attach to one of the rocks then super glue that to a larger rock in the tank.

 

[Kev135]

super glue or I take a needle and fishing line and sew the thing to a rock

 

[xJake]

There is only one method I've ever gotten to work 100% of the time for mounting soft corals. I start by making a "bag" out of some type of plastic mesh (gutterguard, plastic netting, plastic window screen, etc.) using either cable ties (zip ties), rubber bands, or fishing line. I put the coral inside the bag along with some small pieces of rock (a.k.a. "rubble rock"). Then I use another cable tie, a rubber band, or some fishing line to tie off the open end of the bag and keep everything inside. I let the whole thing sit in the tank until the coral attaches to a piece of rock, which usually doesn't take more than a few days.

Then you can simply remove the newly attached coral from the bag and mount that small piece of rock to a larger one, or just place it somewhere in your tank. Using this method you end up allowing the coral to attach on its own, and there's virtually no risk that it will tear away from the rock and end up floating around the tank.

 

[z34fiend]

super glue works for me

 

[goochesfish]

There is only one method I've ever gotten to work 100% of the time for mounting soft corals. I start by making a "bag" out of some type of plastic mesh (gutterguard, plastic netting, plastic window screen, etc.) using either cable ties (zip ties), rubber bands, or fishing line. I put the coral inside the bag along with some small pieces of rock (a.k.a. "rubble rock"). Then I use another cable tie, a rubber band, or some fishing line to tie off the open end of the bag and keep everything inside. I let the whole thing sit in the tank until the coral attaches to a piece of rock, which usually doesn't take more than a few days.

Then you can simply remove the newly attached coral from the bag and mount that small piece of rock to a larger one, or just place it somewhere in your tank. Using this method you end up allowing the coral to attach on its own, and there's virtually no risk that it will tear away from the rock and end up floating around the tank.

how do you keep it from attaching to the gutter guard instead?

 

[goochesfish]

super glue works for me

I thought this is only for hard corals. You've had this work for softies?

 

[Frick-n-Frags]

it depends on the softie with SG. the slimier they are, the less it works.

for example, Xenia is basically animated egg yolk snot. plus when you PO it, it really blows its nose all over the place. SG would be a serious challenge and the Xenia would "slip" the SG quickly.

at the other extreme end of the softie scale is the branching gorg. if you strip the flesh down to the stem, make like a tiny hole in the mounting piece, and SG it in there =uber permanenet

in the middle we have things like GSP or encrusting gorgs.. you dry the underside of the mat on a kleenex and it SG's to a dry rock permanently.

tough leathers like toadstools, lobos and sinularias, are hit or miss. towards their base, they dont slime or expand-contract much, so it is doable, i like loose rubberbanding myself....

slimier leatehrs like colts..no way would i even think about SG for them...and sinulariuas are iffy. little electric green sin frags are nearly unglueable whereas S dura is easy.

zoanthids: tough muthers. you can hack them up just about any way and throw them into a blob of SG and they stick and take. once again, dab the surface to be glued on a kleenex (on wet dabbed stuff, i hold the animal upside down, dab it dry, then put sg on it, still upside down, then put the pre glued dry rock TO the animal which is still upside down in my hand so no water drips into the glue. then once it is stuck, right the rock and dunk it in water to kill the SG.

 

[Frick-n-Frags]

^i assume you would understand the animal you are handling, before you handle it..ie, i dont glue palythoa grandis in my hand. those get tweezer and lots of rinsing of tools and equipment and uber focus on not splattering any stuff from them on me or touching any stuff oozed from them.

as a general tip with SG: if you can do it outside the tank and have a chance to somewhat dry the mating surfaces of whatever it is you are going to SG, the success and ease of use is very high vs trying underwater tom-gluery. heh i hate it.

 

[NCNBilly]

Easiest way to mount softies:

Take two pieces of rubble, sandwich the coral between the two pieces and rubberband the whole thing. Place in a low-flow area, and it should attach in 3 or 4 days. I normally leave the rubberband on for 2-3 weeks just to be sure.

I've tried EVERY method, and this one works every time (for me).

 

[Frick-n-Frags]

^there are alot of different softies, so you need to qualify that statement better as to which ones.

i doubt if you sandwiched a ricordia between two pieces of LR, or a branching gorg.

generally when absolutes are used, the credibility of the statement suffers...

 

[NCNBilly]

^there are alot of different softies, so you need to qualify that statement better as to which ones.

i doubt if you sandwiched a ricordia between two pieces of LR, or a branching gorg.

generally when absolutes are used, the credibility of the statement suffers...

Wow, that's a bit uncalled for.

To clarify, I don't count zoos, ricordia, mushrooms as softies per se. I'm referring to toadstools, kenya tree, xenia, leathers, etc - the type of corals the thread was referring to.

Sorry for the confusion. Please do not sandwich any ricordia between rubble.

 

[Frick-n-Frags]

i dont want to start a scene, but do you see how your unique interpretation of "softie" is a cause for confusion regarding your absolute statement? So maybe someone is going to get the idea that that ricordia, which is a softie, gets sandwiched between two rocks and rubberbanded and it always works.

I believe i stated the problem frankly and without personal attack. And i still think it was called for. at least NOW we have clarification and I could feel better with a statement like "it always works on leather frags" from you. do you see my general issue now?

edit: just trying to keep it sorted out for the new reefers.

 

[JamesJR]

I would use a sewing needle and thread with mine. Always worked fine for me.