Fragging issue

[JTurman]

In the last year I have moved up to trying my luck with SPS with good results thus far. I have had my green monti cap for about 6-7 months at which pointed i decided to frag a piece or two off of him to spread around the tank. I used a pair of diagonal cutters to cut two small pieces off my colony. I used super glued to glue the two frags to some rubble i had at the bottom of my tank. I left the frags out of the tank for 2-3 mins to allow the super glue to set up. I placed the frags back in the tank near the same height as which the colony is. To allow them to get the same quality of lighting. after about a day i thought this may have not been the best idea so i placed them near the bottom of the tank to allow them to recover. But after about 2-3 days they had completely died off. What did i do wrong? what could I have done better? Any advice would be helpful.


green monti cap colony the two frags and the two died frags

 

[JTurman]

green monti cap colony

 

[Reefnjunkie]

The super glue may have irritated them is my guess. I use a super glue/epoxy sandwich, I won't work with just superglue for the whole set up reason. I've seen a fellow reefer sort of swirl the frag around while in tank water when being glued, the glue sets up must faster, but I still prefer glue/epoxy/glue.

I've had just glue irritate chalices to where they died is why I mention the irritation possibility


Next time if you stick with just glue, put the frags in a dish/container with tank water, it'll be less stressful on them