What do you do with these frag plugs????

[Deleted member 143833]

In all my years I have never purchased a coral on one of these new white colored; peg-leg frag mounts so I have to ask:

How do people handle these and get the corals mounted to tank rock? I am guessing I would handle them simular to what I did when I got rock, shatter it towards the base with a chisel but I don;t know how these things will react to that (rubble rock is fairly predicable so I knew I could do it without harming the coral; these things could break right up the middle of the coral and I don't want that)!

In the past corals I've traded I mount on little bits of rubble rock. I've found an article that suggest drilling into the rock and pushing the plugs into the hole (but I don't an underwater drill

Thanks,
Ken

 

[Roy G. Biv]

I started using these, they work well if you want to arrange them on egg crate. I always manage to find a hole in the liverock for them though.

 

[ganjero]

you can use epoxy and glue them on rocks. I carefully break off the leg, and leave just the disc and then use the epoxy.

If you can, take the rock out an drill it outside :rollface:

 

[akaatomic]

How much glue does the seller use? haha. Usually I can break the frag away from the plug with little force. Even peel softies off carefully. Otherwise, wedge it somewhere in your tank. I hate seeing frag plugs in my tank. It irritates me.

 

[ganjero]

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[ganjero]

You can do that in "fresh" frags, but some "matured" frags have grown over the plug so you could break them if you try to remove them.

 

[akaatomic]

Sure some are stubborn. I've had to use side cutters to chip away most of the plug on a few frags. There's another option I guess.

 

[Roy G. Biv]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10944815#post10944815 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by ganjero
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[Tennsquire]

I've cut the bottom of frag plugs off with a dremel before. Lately, with the ORA frags that I've been getting, I drill a hole into some live rock and just insert the frag. They eventually encrust down onto the rock, and all is well.