How to get Blasto in permanent home?

[RandoReefer]

I have had a beautiful Blasto frag for 8 months now and I'm tired of it being on my frag plug tree. It has grew 4 new mouths already. I've done my final aquascape and am ready to put it in its new permanent home.

My question is, do I need to glue it to a rock that it can eventually take over? (Sort of like controlling zoanthid growth) Or will it just grow bigger on its own?

I could keep it on the plug that it was fragged to, and push it into the sand.....or??

Help?

 

[Epicreefer]

In general I haven't seen them encrust onto rock work like acans, favia, chalices and zoanthids do. They grow more like a frogspawn do, sending out new branches and growing at the tips. When looking at the skeleton I see two varieties of growth, one is what I described, many pillars that grow parallel and merge to form a skeleton, and one more like an acan/favia, a solid mass. This second kind might encrust but I haven't seen it. I would find a hole it wedges into and then glue it in. It will probably grow both out and up but may not actualy attach to the rock. It wont grow out of control like zoanthids, at least not soon. Keep it in low flow so the tissue doesn't rip off the skeleton.

 

[chrisfont23]

I rescued one which was basically surviving with it's old skeleton. It had 2 or 3 heads to begin with. Now it's over 15. Like epic said, I have never seen them encrust either. Some sort of porous rock work is your best bet. I keep mine in moderate flow. Anything less and detritus starts to build up around the sand since it's on a pillar like rock...if that analogy makes sense. You can see it here in the corner:

 

[betamed]

all of mine encrust. there are also branching types