Plugs placement

[jdivz87]

I keep hearing I can cut the plug piece and glue right to rock

help me please

pics attached of some that I have

 

[fishski13]

So with any of the hard corals, most of the time you can just carefully take the skeleton off the plug and glue it straight onto a rock or anything you want.

With soft corals, you can really glue them as they attach themselves, however what I do is use plyers to snap the plug part so I am just left with a plate with the soft coral on it and then glue that plate wherever I want which is easy cause it is flat.

 

[jdivz87]

So with any of the hard corals, most of the time you can just carefully take the skeleton off the plug and glue it straight onto a rock or anything you want.

With soft corals, you can really glue them as they attach themselves, however what I do is use plyers to snap the plug part so I am just left with a plate with the soft coral on it and then glue that plate wherever I want which is easy cause it is flat.

So example I can take the green finger leather right off the plug???

 

[AFHokie]

So example I can take the green finger leather right off the plug???

While you COULD, with softies it's easier to leave them on the plug. Just cut the stem off the plug and extra plug disc area if you want and glue that. Gluing softies is a pain and if it's already attached to a plug just leave it. Most of the time they will eventually grow over the plug and you wont' see it.

Stony coral are different because you can pop them off the plug and glue them much easier to your rockwork or a piece of rubble. Personally I leave them on the plug and just trim off as much of the plug as I can. Less chance of damaging the coral and easier to pop off and move if they don't like where you put them.

 

[vetteguy53081]

While you COULD, with softies it's easier to leave them on the plug. Just cut the stem off the plug and extra plug disc area if you want and glue that. Gluing softies is a pain and if it's already attached to a plug just leave it. Most of the time they will eventually grow over the plug and you wont' see it.

Stony coral are different because you can pop them off the plug and glue them much easier to your rockwork or a piece of rubble. Personally I leave them on the plug and just trim off as much of the plug as I can. Less chance of damaging the coral and easier to pop off and move if they don't like where you put them.

I keep hearing I can cut the plug piece and glue right to rock

help me please

pics attached of some that I have

Will depend on type of coral and whether stony or soft tisse.
Many times, wire cutters will cut through glue cleanly while a bansaw or similar will be needed

 

[fishski13]

So example I can take the green finger leather right off the plug???

No a green leather is a softy and they themselves need to attach to something and cannot be glued.

 

[strawberryfish]

Some stony corals are super porous and fragile so wherever possible try and break the seal of the glue that attaches the frag to the plug.

 

[ScubaFish802]

I used to use plyers with the wire cutting bit in-between the handle to cut the plug stem off - I ran into some issues with hitchhikers making it through dips etc this way though, and it is not as clean on the aquascape.
Now I usually just use a metal razon blade and split straight between the plug and the glue and then just re-glue

 

[jdivz87]

Thank you all for this