Mounting plating montipora

[R eef]

I have some green plating montipora which I've placed loosely on top of a rock for a while but need to mount them more securely with an overhang...

Using glue or putty has been challenging as they get moved by water flow before hardening.

Any suggestions?

 

[ndz98]

What if you turned off anything that created flow for a short bit while the superglue hardens?

 

[R eef]

Yep I've tried mounting a few times, outside the tank and it sets for a few days fine, but then eventually with strong flow and hermits it moves out of place.

I might try cutting a slit in a rock and securing it that way...

 

[happyhourhero]

Get JB Water Weld from Home Depot for $5.77 and get super glue gel from the dollar store. Use side cutters and remove the post on the plug. Take your JB Water weld and make a small marble sized ball and then put a dab of super glue gel on the ball of JBWW and mash it onto the bottom of the plug. Now, add some SG Gel to the JBWW that is now on the bottom of the plug and then squish it onto the rock in your tank. Use both hands so the rock doesnt tumble since you can use some force. This will stay where you put it and it will be unmovable by the next day.

 

[Bunnee911]

An adhesive sandwich. Groovy.

 

[R eef]

Thanks for the detailed response, I mount some of my LPS like that but I've been trying to create an overhang to give my bubble coral some shade, so I previously removed the plug entirely and was trying to attach the montipora to LR on a single edge/corner.

I'll give your suggestion a go though and let the montipora grow out instead.

 

[Salty1962]

I've glue caps to a round plug and let harden over night then epoxy ,w/superglue infused, the plug to the live rock. Mine held up to direct flow from a MP40.

 

[R eef]

In case this helps others... I placed a rock on top of a corner of the monti to keep it in place and after a couple of weeks it fused into the rock below from underneath via new growth.

 

[TUSI]

I normally glue it to a PC of small rock outside the tank and then you glue the rock with the coral to the real tank scape

 

[sticky polyps]

I havent yet used epoxy, but I super glue everything. When I was mounting my 10-11 inch cap I used like 3 small bottles of gel super glue, lol. It's edge has since grown into a surrounding rock

 

[AllSignsPointToFish]

I just got a green and a red montipora yesterday and was wondering how to do the same thing! Very timely post...thanks!