Attaching coral to rock question 2

[costello303]

Last week i successfully attached some xenia that had grown on a shell to my LR by gluing the shell to the LR.

Ive heard that you can cut some of the purple mat around the green star polyps and attch them to rocks using rubber bands, then after a few days it would be ok.

My question is, there is a place on my rock where i would like to put some GSP but wouldnt be able to attach using a rubber band, is it possible to super glue it or is that a bad idea?

 

[68ss396]

I dont think super glue would be a good idea, who knows what is inside it. they do make reef safe molding putty you should be able to pick up at your lfs. It is very tacky and seems to work well.

 

[ionredline0260]

Super glue gel used used very common for fragging every thing from SPS to mushrooms. I think you'd be fine but it might slime over and detatch from the rock you glued it to. this happend twice with my leather frag but the third time it held fine.

 

[BradsOcean]

youd probably be fine using super glue.

 

[papagimp]

I agree, it may hurt a bit of the GSP, where you apply the glue, but overall, shouldn't be much of an issue. GSP's are kinda resilient and hardy for the most part. I simply attach my GSP to a reefdisk or piece of rubble rock first, using either thread to tie it down or rubber band a net over the entire piece, and once it attaches itself, then glue the rock down where I want it.

FWIW, gsp tends to grow so fast most the time that if you lost a small smidge trying to glue it down, no big deal. I just wouldn't try to glue it straight to the rock if it was your only piece left.

 

[michaeldaly]

I have never has success gluing soft corals with super glue.

I would first attach it to some live rock rubble with a cotton thread or rubber band and then super glue the rock to the larger rock.