To many / attatching to rocks. How to?

King Turkey · Oct 30, 2019

I have 14 corals for a 40g display aio tank. 6 chalices (probly overkill) one acro one birds nest a hammer a torch and a bubblegum digi a lepto a richidiah and a scoly. I am wondering if I went with to much either way perfered method to place corals. Do I take rock out to drill hole for frag plugs or nip the nub and glue or epoxy looking for suggestions all on frag rack just looking for guidance.

shermoen · Oct 30, 2019

Taking all the rock out and drilling would be lots of work!! If it were me I would remove what I could from the frags and glue/epoxy in place and the ones that I couldn't get removed from drags I would just glue the frag somwhere. You could leave the plugs on all of them and eventually they would be covered in coraline or coral.

King Turkey · Oct 30, 2019

I guess I could nip the long part so it is a flat disk than glue. I might make some islands for some. I have some reef glue from brs I have not tried gluing yet in tank. would epoxy be better or does it matter

Dierks · Oct 30, 2019

I drill holes for mine... In fact I simply made a natural frag rack in my tank 2 days ago with a piece of Shelf rock and drilling holes... I kinda had to get ready for all the new frags as I kinda went nuts on the Cherry Corals Sale.. Yikes.

shermoen · Oct 30, 2019

Cutting the stem off the plug is what I do and then use gel superglue to mount. The brs glue is probably the same thing. When you put the glue on dunk it in a container of tank water and then wait 30 seconds for it to start setting after that put it in place and hold until it will hold itself in place.

King Turkey · Oct 30, 2019

Dierks said:
I drill holes for mine... In fact I simply made a natural frag rack in my tank 2 days ago with a piece of Shelf rock and drilling holes... I kinda had to get ready for all the new frags as I kinda went nuts on the Cherry Corals Sale.. Yikes.

you to hu. cherry corals rocks. I have been just growing on a rack and feel like I just need to figure out the glueing

King Turkey · Oct 30, 2019

shermoen said:
Cutting the stem off the plug is what I do and then use gel superglue to mount. The brs glue is probably the same thing. When you put the glue on dunk it in a container of tank water and then wait 30 seconds for it to start setting after that put it in place and hold until it will hold itself in place.

o dang that is pretty simple I was not sure if the surface had to be scrubbed or anything. well. I guess I am gonna try this all tomorrow. today was receiving corals from cherry corals and water change day.