I got a frag that wont stay in place.

[Uyro1]

I got this great frag from my LFS and its doing great. I have it rubber banded gently to a rock. Everything is going great but i still have it rubber banded down. How long does a frag take till grows onto the rock, six weeks, six months, never?

 

[woodycb]

Depends, what is it?

 

[Uyro1]

Thats the second problem not sure what it is. It is purple with lots of stalks. Looks like a sps but its has no skeletal structure since they fraged it with a pair of scissors and its all soft tissue.

 

[jpsk8man]

sounds like Green Star Polyps to me...

 

[NorCalReef]

Like a green star polyp?

 

[NorCalReef]

beat me to it...same minute though

 

[Uyro1]

Na i have star polyps. I am dong a bad job describing it. I am guessing it is an acropora i think. I looks just like an acropora. Are all acropora stony or can they be fleshy. What ever I have its looks like an acropora and is fleshy.

 

[Sk8r]

All acropora are quite stony. Sounds like a kenya tree, a softie.

If you have trouble with it, (softies can expand and contract, changing their center of balance) try supergluing or fishline-tying its rock to a bigger, jagged rock that may be easier to place and make stick. You are not bound solely to what they sold you.

 

[Sk8r]

All acropora are quite stony. Sounds like a kenya tree, a softie.

If you have trouble with it, (softies can expand and contract, changing their center of balance) try supergluing or fishline-tying its rock to a bigger, jagged rock that may be easier to place and make stick. You are not bound solely to what they sold you.

 

[demonsp]

A pic would help.But Gel Super Glue works great on any fleshy coral and then epoxy works well for coral like torches. The great thing with the gel supre glue is you can use in the water.Just place frag at glue point and spread glue around to secure.Just besure it will like location.This link may help.

http://www.asira.org/caresheets

 

[Uyro1]

Thanks alot!

 

[tmz]

Some leathers will slime off superglue. If so you can make a rock sandwich. Take two pieces of rubble and put a rubberband around them so they close but not very tightly. Insert the stem of the coral in between and it should fix itself to the rocks within a couple of weeks. Not to tight or you will constrict the coral.

 

[FBNitro]

If it looks like an Acro, I bet it's a Colt coral. My frag looks just like an acro right now.

 

[tmz]

If it's a leather coral the rubberband might cut through it or be so loose that it won't hold An alternative technique is piercing. Glue a toothpick to a rock ierce the coral at the base and break the toothpick over the top to hold it. It should set on the rock in 2 weeks or so. Some flow helps stimulate it to developo a hold fast ;it is said.This method and the rock sandwhich have worked for me.

 

[Tswifty]

I used the rubberband technique... You just have to be careful how tight you make the rubber band as Tom said. It took about a month for the coral to take hold on it's own. FWIW if I add any leathers in the future I will use the piercing technique.