Mounting cyphastrea on overflow or back glass.

[bdejong1112o]

Ok,so I have a nice frag of what some call jingle bell cyphastrea. I have thought about mounting it on the back of the tank. Either the overflow or the back glass. Will it attach and encrust on the glass or plastic? What's the downside of doing this?

Here is the frag.



Here is the tank

 

[Mombo]

I’ll follw along for this as I also think it would look cool. I doubt it would stick though. I’d love bizarro cyphaestrea across the back of mine though haha

 

[ludnix]

It might be really hard to remove if it were to die some day, but I think it's a great way to cover up the overflow. It can be attached with superglue gel, I would scrub the area with a tooth brush first to remove any slime coat on the overflow.

 

[Mombo]

Ah didnt think about removing it if it actually did stick haha

 

[splix]

I've seen it done before. I'm not sure how well it was stuck to the glass, I just saw pictures. It was encrusting most of the rear glass though.

 

[TheWB]

Instead of mounting it directly to the glass why not get some of the new Stax Rock from Two Little Fishies? It’s cut flat on both sides. Attach that to your rear wall or overflow and attach the coral to the rock. That would eliminate the coral on glass or plastic situation. Your tank looks like it’s about 4 ft wide so you’d need a lot of the Stax rock to cover the back wall but it would look pretty cool. I think Marco Rocks has some prime cuts that are cut flat on one side and left natural in the other. Using those would give a more textured look.

 

[bdejong1112o]

I have seen tanks with the back wall covered in rubble rock. Looks cool, but could be expensive to do depending on the rock used. The cost of the stax rock would be prohibitive. The tank if 6 feet wide and is a 220g so its 30" tall. I could start with just one overflow and cover what is visible but that would look odd depending on the angle. A 40lb box may be enough to cover an over flow.... hard to estimate the area of coverage when they only list the weight of the rock.

Anyone use it before? Does it require a curing process or is it devoid of organic material?

I wonder what the impact would be introducing a large amount of new rock to the system. I like the idea and would lend to a more natural look and provide nice mointing spots for other coralmin the future.

 

[TheWB]

I have seen tanks with the back wall covered in rubble rock. Looks cool, but could be expensive to do depending on the rock used. The cost of the stax rock would be prohibitive. The tank if 6 feet wide and is a 220g so its 30" tall. I could start with just one overflow and cover what is visible but that would look odd depending on the angle. A 40lb box may be enough to cover an over flow.... hard to estimate the area of coverage when they only list the weight of the rock.

Anyone use it before? Does it require a curing process or is it devoid of organic material?

I wonder what the impact would be introducing a large amount of new rock to the system. I like the idea and would lend to a more natural look and provide nice mointing spots for other coralmin the future.

I have a 20# box of the Stax rock that I’m using as substrate instead of sand. The dims of the bottom of my tank are approximately 30” x 20” and the 20# box covered roughly 85% of that area. I’ll need to get another 5# box to cover it fully. My understanding is that it’s just like any other dry rock but my tank isn’t wet yet so I don’t know how it performs. Just thought it might be worth investigating for your specific application. I hope you find a way to do what you want to do that works.

 

[Mombo]

From what I understand stax is made by Marcos rock for them

 

[IvanW]

Instead of glue would that plastic pellets stuff work, I don't remember the name. You heat it up in hot water.

 

[TheWB]

From what I understand stax is made by Marcos rock for them

I think you're right about that. I really like the look of the Stax on my tank bottom, I really hope it isn't going to be a mistake using is as substrate but it's easily removed and used elsewhere. If it does work well I might add more to the back wall like the OP wants to do and see if I can get some Corals to spread out back there.

 

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[Chessmanmark]

The TOTM thread has a huge encrusting monti on his.