How to attach floating mushrooms

[aguila88psi]

So I hate glueing mushroom corals so I'm trying a new method, see below on how I did it and what I used. Hope it helps someone one day.

Materials I used, bird mesh, hobby knife, 4oz specimen cup, rubble rock and sand.




Cut a hole from the top of the specimen cup


Cut slits on the sides of the cup


Fill with sand about half way, rinse sand if you used dry sand then place a layer of live rock rubble on the top.



Here's the floating mushroom


Add the mushroom with tank water


Place bird mesh on top then use the cover to hold the mesh in place, then put in the tank, wait a week or two till the mushroom sticks to one of the rocks then glue the rocks to a frag plug or another rock in your tank



Hope I helped and good luck.

 

[TheAquatect]

Excellent! Great timing too, I'm finding a dozen loose ones in my tank, going to try this. Thanks!

 

[aguila88psi]

Nice!! Hope all goes well

 

[nitr8]

What's the purpose of the bird netting?

 

[aguila88psi]

What's the purpose of the bird netting?

Just in case it goes floating again, you probably can do without the netting but its an extra measure I'm taking.

 

[rogergolf66]

I tried that before after 3 weeks it still wasn't attached used glue and a zip tie worked great for me. good luck with your attempt. hope you have better luck then I