watchguy123
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Have you ever been frustrated by the growth of a coral such that you can't see the best colored part of the colony. Well, I have a bunch of times. This time I did a little plastic surgery to correct the cosmetic failure.
My strawberry shortcake has great color and great growth. Except its growth pattern results in me seeing most of its "underbelly" instead of the top of the tips. The best view of it is top down and that is not easy to share. Don't know why it has grown this way but I decided to correct it with surgery.
The first picture is a front on view and the strawberry shortcake is centered in the pic.
Here is the intended incision (clip) line.
Cut has been completed and you can see the colony remaining minus the surgically removed portion.
Here is the sectioned portion of the strawberry shortcake
Sectioned portion is now super glued in place
Close up of the section portion super glued into place
And the "after" picture which you should compare to the first or "before" picture
I'll wait an hour or so to let the glue set up before I remove the cup. I already like the cosmetic improvement. In a month or so, I'll update the result. It will take a while before everything fuses together and I expect some potential residual weakness in the strength of the attachment. Time will tell how successful this turned out. Just like with people.
If the sectioned portion is too weak ultimately, I will then have a very large sale thread of strawberry shortcake frags.
I hope no one objects but I am duplicating this thread in my other sps thread because I thought this was interesting enough to share in its own thread
My strawberry shortcake has great color and great growth. Except its growth pattern results in me seeing most of its "underbelly" instead of the top of the tips. The best view of it is top down and that is not easy to share. Don't know why it has grown this way but I decided to correct it with surgery.
The first picture is a front on view and the strawberry shortcake is centered in the pic.
Here is the intended incision (clip) line.
Cut has been completed and you can see the colony remaining minus the surgically removed portion.
Here is the sectioned portion of the strawberry shortcake
Sectioned portion is now super glued in place
Close up of the section portion super glued into place
And the "after" picture which you should compare to the first or "before" picture
I'll wait an hour or so to let the glue set up before I remove the cup. I already like the cosmetic improvement. In a month or so, I'll update the result. It will take a while before everything fuses together and I expect some potential residual weakness in the strength of the attachment. Time will tell how successful this turned out. Just like with people.
If the sectioned portion is too weak ultimately, I will then have a very large sale thread of strawberry shortcake frags.
I hope no one objects but I am duplicating this thread in my other sps thread because I thought this was interesting enough to share in its own thread
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