Using Super Glue Gel to attach soft corals?

[chuckdallas]

Why would a soft Colt Coral become slightly or fully un-attached from it's base? If we were moving it around by the base rock during intial installation after the purchase, is it possible that we could have bumped the coral and one portion of a side could come un-attached? If it becomes partially un-attached (maybe 1/8th to 1/4th of the entire circumference) and it's healthy, will it re-attach itself? Do softies usually let go of their base and move around as anemones tend to do?

 

[Misled]

They can reattach themselves. They don't need to be attached to anything though.I keep leathers in my tank with the stalk burried in the sand. They don't really have to be attached to anything. Super glue doesn't work well on softies, though I've heard some use it.

 

[jeff@zina.com]

They'll reattach if they need to. I've seen leather and mushroom corals get detached, float around and land somewhere else and anchor just fine. Superglue works okay, but better is a band or string to hold them in place until they attach. Usually, if they float around, they land where you don't want them to attach.

Jeff

 

[dublo8]

I have used superglue gel to glue down a problem ricordia that wouldn't attach after using several methods of trying to get it to attach to some rock. Superglue does create heat in the curing process that can bother some coral though. Either way I have never had a probelm with using it. only with shrooms (ricordia excluded)