Sun coral mounting techniques needed please
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nemosworld
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epoxy and super glue.
1:mix epoxy then apply crazy glue gel to it, attach to coral and do the same to attach to rock, hold in place for a little while and you should be good.
1:mix epoxy then apply crazy glue gel to it, attach to coral and do the same to attach to rock, hold in place for a little while and you should be good.
ReefyRoy
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Totally agree with the super glue:epoxy putty:super glue technique.
Out of curiosity, how will you feed them? Do you have fish/shrimp in the tank? The only reason I ask is that I have to use the coke-bottle technique for mine, and it'd be tough to do that if mounted vertically.
Roy
Out of curiosity, how will you feed them? Do you have fish/shrimp in the tank? The only reason I ask is that I have to use the coke-bottle technique for mine, and it'd be tough to do that if mounted vertically.
Roy
rhdoug
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I have already have 3 colonies in a 58 gallon mixed reef which turns 12 years old in a couple of weeks. 2 of them have been in there for 5 years, one for 3 years. There are a few fish (and 1 banded coral shrimp that I have been trying to catch for quite a while, although he has seemingly done no harm to the corals). I feed the tank heavily and always have, and I do target feed the sun corals almost daily. The sun corals do well in the tank, and I don't anticipate having any trouble feeding them in that location since the flow takes food there anyway.
I'd like to use a wooden dowel or something similar wedged between the coral and front glass to keep it from falling off onto the corals below while the epoxy and glue set up. If I do that, I was planning to protect the coral from the dowel with a piece of foam or a folded up mesh bag, does that sound logical? Obviously I wouldn't use a lot of pressure, just enough to keep it in place for a couple of hours.
Here is the tank. The sun corals are in the bottom right, center right, and in a cave between the anemone and the blue/green lobo on the left. The area where I want to add the new ones is the vertical rock on the left, above the bubble coral.
I'd like to use a wooden dowel or something similar wedged between the coral and front glass to keep it from falling off onto the corals below while the epoxy and glue set up. If I do that, I was planning to protect the coral from the dowel with a piece of foam or a folded up mesh bag, does that sound logical? Obviously I wouldn't use a lot of pressure, just enough to keep it in place for a couple of hours.
Here is the tank. The sun corals are in the bottom right, center right, and in a cave between the anemone and the blue/green lobo on the left. The area where I want to add the new ones is the vertical rock on the left, above the bubble coral.
ReefyRoy
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Beautiful tank, and I'm jealous...I feed my tank sparingly, so whenever I put my hands in to feed the sun corals it becomes a feeding frenzy and I really have to work to give them some quiet feeding time.
As to the dowels, you really shouldn't need one...I've glued stuff all over the place with the technique described above, and it hardens nicely within 30 seconds or so.
Good luck!
As to the dowels, you really shouldn't need one...I've glued stuff all over the place with the technique described above, and it hardens nicely within 30 seconds or so.
Good luck!
herrGreen
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Maybe try this out? Mark seems satisfied. http://www.youtube.com/user/mrsaltwatertank#p/u/3/nmjqpJzZkd0
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