New to SPS and corals doing well.....

[scriptmonkey]

Howdy,
So I am new to corals. Right now I have my SPS frags from the JF live sale sitting in a frag rack and the frag plugs on some are almost completely encrusted now and was wondering if I should snap off the stems and glue the little plug disk to a larger frag plug?

The long term plan is to attach them to rock rubble and place them around the tank until they look happy then I will cement the rubble to the liverock. I am holding off on that until I get my 130gal set up and stable then will vacate my 75 I currently have. I am going to want to reuse my current rock but want to change the aquascape up so for the time being are going to live on magnetic racks.

Long story short is on my Maxspect Ethereal's with the AB+ settings that BRS worked up I was not getting enough PAR near the bottom of my tank measured by my Apogee SQ-520. So I moved them higher in the tank and adjusted the spectrum some and everything seems to be happier. I have a pair of Orphek Atlantik V4 Gen 2 compacts in boxes waiting for the new tank, so I really do not want to break those out for this tank if I do not have too.

Advice and suggestions are welcomed.
Tom

 

[P-Dub]

Howdy,
So I am new to corals. Right now I have my SPS frags from the JF live sale sitting in a frag rack and the frag plugs on some are almost completely encrusted now and was wondering if I should snap off the stems and glue the little plug disk to a larger frag plug?

The long term plan is to attach them to rock rubble and place them around the tank until they look happy then I will cement the rubble to the liverock. I am holding off on that until I get my 130gal set up and stable then will vacate my 75 I currently have. I am going to want to reuse my current rock but want to change the aquascape up so for the time being are going to live on magnetic racks.

Long story short is on my Maxspect Ethereal's with the AB+ settings that BRS worked up I was not getting enough PAR near the bottom of my tank measured by my Apogee SQ-520. So I moved them higher in the tank and adjusted the spectrum some and everything seems to be happier. I have a pair of Orphek Atlantik V4 Gen 2 compacts in boxes waiting for the new tank, so I really do not want to break those out for this tank if I do not have too.

Advice and suggestions are welcomed.
Tom

Personally, I would leave them on the disk that they are on. Glue those to rocks or rubble and let them grow out to colonies before snapping stems. If there is a failure now you might lose the whole coral. Patience grasshopper. Let the existing frags grow out to colonies with multiple stems to choose from. In other words, they are doing good so let them continue to do good and get large before fragging.

 

[scriptmonkey]

I'm sorry I think I didn't explain correctly. The stem on the base of the frag plug, the ceramic piece. Take the ceramic stem off which leaves the encrusted disk and glue that to another plug.

 

[Graffiti Spot]

I do that and glue them to large plugs, it helps ide the fact the corals sitting on plugs once it encrusts and grows over the plug steps I made with the two plugs. But I only do it with corals that encrust a lot before they branch. Some will just continue to branch off of a plug once it’s encrusted. Depends on the species and where it’s from.

 

[P-Dub]

I'm sorry I think I didn't explain correctly. The stem on the base of the frag plug, the ceramic piece. Take the ceramic stem off which leaves the encrusted disk and glue that to another plug.

Ahhhh, yes. Now I understand. The plug stem...;Facepalm! Sounds like a plan.