Question for you guys/gals that have large SPS colonies..

[2FunKids]

How do you all attach these colonies/frags in your SPS dominate tanks? Do you move the frag plug around then glue it down when you find a spot the coral likes or do you glue the plug to a larger rock and just keep that with the coral at all times. Do you try to keep it from encrusting onto other rocks? If you have to re-arrange, do you cut it off and re-epoxy it to a new location?

I have 5 SPS colonies so far and as I add them I would like to be thinking ahead.

Thanks and with Kind Regards

Ray

 

[rovster]

Good question, I've thought the same thing!

 

[msudiver1]

i was thinking the same thing. I don't mean to highjack your thread but I was also wondering how do you place corals on the side of the rock. I have tried glue and epoxy but its tough to get them to stay

 

[MentalNote]

I don't have huge colonies, a few baseball-softball sized ones and one that is about 10" in diameter.

When I planned my aqua scape I drilled holes slightly larger than rigid airline tubing. When I get a frag, I remove the plug and mount the coral to a section of tubing using epoxy and super glue. On the sides of the rock I simply drill at an angle. It is very easy for me to remove my corals.

 

[youdontknowme]

Want to know too! Also, whole fragging, do you take out the whole colony to frag and then glue it back to rock??

 

[Moser]

Fragging Luc Loyen's way!.





One of the legends of Reefkeeping!

Mo

 

[DiscusHeckel]

This is certainly fragging at another level.

Thanks for the videos.

 

[rovster]

Now those are frags. Holy moly!!!!!!

 

[jda]

I put the frags where I want them initially and let them grow. I skip the plugs - break the SPS off the plugs and glue them directly... in a week or 10 days, they have encrusted on their own and will take off.

Don't rearrange... this is typically pretty bad... the colonies that you have just grown have grown to that specific area and you can really set them back if you move them. ...sometimes, they are fine, though.

 

[dieselkeeper]

I put the frags where I want them initially and let them grow. I skip the plugs - break the SPS off the plugs and glue them directly... in a week or 10 days, they have encrusted on their own and will take off.

Don't rearrange... this is typically pretty bad... the colonies that you have just grown have grown to that specific area and you can really set them back if you move them. ...sometimes, they are fine, though.

X2 A lot of SPS needs to encrust before growth takes off. I would decide where the coral needs to be and leave it encrust and grow.

 

[tdb320reef]

I glue the frag to a large piece of dry rubble rock. This allows me to move when the colony grows out. If it gets to big for the rock I epoxy another piece of rock. Makes it easy to get out to trim also.

 

[mayjong]

dude frags with a hammer....cool...

 

[2FunKids]

Some good ideas here...After busting off the frag plug rod, I was thinking of using epoxy to mount some of those plastic automotive push in fasteners (the ones some call Christmas tree fasteners) so I could push them into the holes in my live rock in different places until I found a place the coral liked??