Can You Use Rubberbands?

[The Saltwater Kid]

Can you use rubberbands when attaching frags to rubble rock? I just tried the tulle method and 0 out of 8 ric frags attached after a week and in fact 7 out of 8 turned into slimy mush. I took each frag and placed it on it's own piece of rubble rock and gently wrapped that in it's own piece of tulle and placed them all in a plastic cup with tulle covering and put it on the bottom of my tank. What did I do wrong? Would rubberbands work better?

 

[Bud's Reef]

I've not had very good luck with a rubberband directly on the ric or mushroom. I'm a small sample but twice I tred and both times the rubberband ended up cutting through them. I've also had problems with rics melting under netting but I've been successful putting rubble or rock in the bottom of a dish letting the ric just lay on the rubble and then covering the dish with netting to keep the critters out and the rics from trying to float away.

 

[LockeOak]

Superglue works pretty well. Use only enough to keep it secure until it grabs on its own.

 

[The Saltwater Kid]

Yeah, I tried them loose in a dish with netting over them but that didn't work either...they ended up getting wedged underneath the rubble rock and didn't attach. The next time I do it I'll just try the super glue gel. Thanks!

 

[aquarius77]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10430228#post10430228 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by LockeOak
Superglue works pretty well. Use only enough to keep it secure until it grabs on its own.

DO NOT glue your mushrooms, it causes chemical burns to the mushroom tissue and most times the only thing the glue will do is KILL your mushroom.
Try netting over the dish, if you want to net down each ric, wrap them lightly so they have room to expand.

At no time is it ever a good idea to glue a shroom.

 

[The Saltwater Kid]

I tried the netting of individual frags...maybe I had the netting to tight but these were small frags and i didn't want them keep dislodging so they wouldn't be able to attach.