Is gluing necessary after fragging?`

[abhishek@1985]

Hi friends,
Have started with sps and have got a green acropora formosa which was not doing great.. Well now its all purple polyps are out but however it has started to show signs of RTN.. so need to frag the affected part of as I feel it would recover well in my tank..

However , have no stock of glue.. so wanted to ask if its at all necessary to glue the part of the acro after fragging it..

Also how high should I frag it so that RTN doesn't extend?

 

[gig]

while no expert, I would cut above the RTN part not to leave any.

I think you want to glue it to a rock or frag disc to keep it stable, if you dont glue it, where are you putting it?

 

[israel.kendall]

If you could securely wedge them in the rocks you wouldn't need glue. I've done this before with montis and birdsnests.

 

[abhishek@1985]

Well the part affected is one of the lower branches .. I believe I can just cut off the part and still have it sit on one of my rocks...

 

[gig]

yeah, if you can wedge it, then that works...I'm always rearely successful doing that, as some crab or water movement eventually jars it free.

 

[newbie916]

Yeah, wedging's a little tough. Woke up this morning to find my 8" Flower Petal Monti colony laying on my chalices because a astrea snail had to get some algae and pushed the colony off the rock. Just wedged it back in, but added a little glue to help secure it until it encrusts onto the rock

 

[israel.kendall]

Well the part affected is one of the lower branches .. I believe I can just cut off the part and still have it sit on one of my rocks...

I wouldn't just sit it on a rock, something will knock it down probably before it has time to encrust.

 

[JustinM]

If you can take a rock out of the tank, or have a spare piece of dead LR, get a dremmel and drill a hole that it may possibly sit in. I did this with a piece of tri color that one of my stupid turbo snails broke off and it is still there and encrusted on the rock now.

 

[Grant W]

Gluing to a piece of rock or a plug is better because you can seal the cut which helps to avoid infection, bettering the chances for the frag. This has been my experience anyways. If you do glue try to find gel type glue.