How do you keep your frags in place?

[LockeOak]

Some people spend most of their reef maintenance time fighting algae or alkalinity levels, I spend mine keeping the **** corals where I put them. Most of my frags are on small pieces of live rock (inferior to plugs, I now realize) that make them very hard to place without falling over or being pushed down by an overathletic hermit crab. Anyone have any suggestions for ways of securing frags, preferably non-permanently and without removing/drilling holes in the rock? I plan on doing that when I upgrade the tank but it's not really an option on the established tank. Perhaps glueing a plastic toothpick to the frag rock as a small peg? I'm tired of my SPS being involuntarily fragged over and over because a blue-legged hermit couldn't be bothered to walk around rather than over them.:mad2:

 

[erbio]

With the right flow I dont believe one could just balance frags on rocks... hehe

Use a good putty, place corals in the correct locations, soft corals in medium flow, etc..

Yes, use pegs.

 

[ahullsb]

The store putty works ok. What does work is using super glue gel to get the putty to stick to the rock, and then a little more on the other side to attach it to the rock. It seems like the best of both worlds.

 

[rustybucket145]

Superglue Gel! Consider 1 tube or more per rock. It will be white for the first month then it will be encrusted with coraline and you will never know superglue was ever there.

 

[Macimage]

Be sure that your fish don't explore the super glue until is is completely dried, as it will glue their mouth shut.

Joyce

 

[Roy G. Biv]

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[LockeOak]

I think my question was a little unclear... the frags are well attached to their individual rubble pieces, but how do you keep those pieces in place? Superglue won't work without removing both rocks to be glued together since it cures almost instantly when it hits water. I haven't used the putty before. Could I, say, remove the frag rock, put putty on the bottom, put the frag rock back in the tank and push it into place (submerged) and have it cure properly? When it's fully cured is it rock hard or "tacky?" That is, could I remove the frag with a good pull if I wanted, or is it permanently attached short of sawing it off?

 

[Roy G. Biv]

Use the putty on the frag rock. Attatch rock to rock. Cures underwater. A good tug will pull it apart. It is semi permenant.