Mounting sun coral?

[dendro982]

How are you mounting your sun corals in a deep tanks, when there are no free space on flat surfaces?

I tries to glue them on vertical and angled walls, using Loctite super glue gel, brushing rock before gluing, rubbing dot of glue into the rock, then into the coral and joining them. Standard procedure.

Today 4th of them was dropped down, either by turbos or medium sized hermits. In just two months.

The bottom row in 24" deep tank is free for mounting, but the weight-bearing stones can't be removed for drilling.

Any other way? Or it is the next unsolvable problem

 

[Buster4900]

I have mounted hard coralswith two part epoxy successfully, thinks like frogspawn, candy cane. Might work if your suns are on a rock?

 

[dendro982]

How did you do that, with which kind of epoxy putty?

I tried HoldFast and coraline colored AquaScape Construction Epoxy. Both have very long setting time, maybe 20 or more minutes before they start being less mushy, and much more before they start to hold. I wasn't able to stay without moving with my hand in the tank for so long. AquaScape epoxy, in addition, makes cloud in water, as if it is water soluble.

The only thing that ever worked, was Oatey steel-filled epoxy, 5 min hardening time, but it is not good for the health of the tank inhabitants and to remove the coral later I had to undo the rockwork, remove rock with coral from the tank and chisel coral out with chisel and hammer.

What am I missing?

 

[dendro982]

Illustration:

The last sun coral, dismounted by cleanup crew, was on the rock in the middle, between two suns, that are still mounted. You can see the white trace of glue.
There were 4 suns of the same kind (fragged colony), mounted in the line, and on the far left rock - black and Cladopsammia(?), dismounted by CUC earler. Now even traces of glue are barely noticeable.

Side view of mounted Cladopsammia gracilis (ID is questionable):

 

[Buster4900]

Nice picture - You have a lot of sun coral. I just got my first frag a few weeks ago and it is doing great.
The epoxy I used was purchased at Lowe's 5 minute two part. I mixed it and let it sit for a couple minutes, put some on the rock and placed rock in the tank. I have used this several times. Sometimes I try to hold the frag in place with a temporary rock or stick placement. Goodluck!!

 

[dendro982]

Thank you!
I'll try to check local Lowes, now they have stores in Canada too, but choice may differ from US's, just like in HD.

Main bulk of my sun corals makes the fragged colony:

and its babies/spawns. It looks much better mounted on the rock, then on tiles , and the cleaning is much easier.

 

[dragonette]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12789803#post12789803 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Buster4900
I have mounted hard coralswith two part epoxy successfully, thinks like frogspawn, candy cane. Might work if your suns are on a rock?

thats what I do. (I have a nano now, but regardless its the same thing)

I just get the epoxy from my LFS and goob it to the rock I want it.

 

[dendro982]

dragonette, what is the name of this epoxy and time of hardening? Maybe I'm just using the wrong stuff.

 

[Qckwzrd]

I have a small colony of Eguchipsammia thats covered all around and I mounted it with BSI IC-Gel. I used a pointed piece of liverock and mounted it like a "T" shape so it wouldnt touch the sandbed, hermits couldnt knock it over and I didnt have to place it on another rock.