I was looking at the selling livestock forum not to long ago and i came across some picstures of superman montis, sunset etc...and they were all ecrusted either on a bare bottom or sand. Now when i have receved frags of encrusting montis they are on plugs. My question is can i put them on the substrate on the bottom of the tank and will they encrust onto the or would it be better to put them on a rock or something. Probally a dumb question but im just wondering beacuse everytime ive recieved a monti it only spreads on the frag plug ad stops there. Any help is appreciated. Thanks!
Encrusting Montiporas Encrusting
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der_wille_zur_macht
Team RC
I've never seen montipora encrust on substrate (i.e. sand). Glass I could believe, or rock. Gluing a frag directly to the rock with no plug is probably the way to go if you want it to encrust rock.
ILoveReefer
Premium Member
Ive seen sunset monti's spread onto glass. never seen it encrust sand. I would mount the frag directly to the desired rock, if possible without the plug.
BowieReefer84
New member
Cut the base of the plug and glue it to a rock. Once it gets off the plug it should take off... Than you want to know how to get it OFF the rock!!!
Eastamherstbias
New member
Yep that is the way I have done it or buy the donut frags and you just drop the plug in. Once It encrusts, pull the plug and put a blank in.
Capt_Cully
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cardiffgiant
Active member
For montis I usually cut the base of the plug off, cut the top in half and mount on half to rock... Then start a new frag with the other half 
It can take a little while to get it to go from the plug to the rock, but it will usually take off once it does.
It can take a little while to get it to go from the plug to the rock, but it will usually take off once it does.
cardiffgiant
Active member
For montis I usually cut the base of the plug off, cut the top in half and mount on half to rock... Then start a new frag with the other half
It can take a little while to get it to go from the plug to the rock, but it will usually take off once it does.
It can take a little while to get it to go from the plug to the rock, but it will usually take off once it does.
Capt_Cully
Active member
It was grown from a chip the size of my thumbnail. Think I paid $60-80 for it. Anyway, shows you how the hobby has grown and prices have come down. Anyway it hit the glass on the bottom and kept on truckin'. That part of the tank was bare bottom from the water flow.
pretty sweet sunset monti?
Capt_Cully
Active member
Yep. Sunset.
oneradtek202
Pitcher Hill Reef Society
he might be wondering about mine, but my sand is rock hard from some calc precipitate that happened awhile back. it grabbed ahold of that hard sand and took off. never seen just reg sand. id place on rock
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