Ugh I hate it when...

[Paintguru]

....I come home and look at some frags that I freshly mounted a day or two ago and the coral has come lose from the superglue and is gone . Guess I need to practice at gluing to get better adhesion.

 

[MarvinsReef]

....I come home and look at some frags that I freshly mounted a day or two ago and the coral has come lose from the superglue and is gone . Guess I need to practice at gluing to get better adhesion.

yikes... I'm sure it'll show up sometime as a colony.. LoLz...

good luck Chris...

 

[Paintguru]

Yeah those Rastas are a pain to frag! Palys seem so much easier compared to zoas.

 

[roshi719]

I hate glung zoos... seems like they never stick the first time.

 

[revhtree Verified Admin]

Def a huge pain! Maybe use some bridal veil and gently mount it over top of the zoa.

 

[Kigs!]

Man, you have no idea how much I get bothered when that happens to me. Now I usually dip the frag in water, let it sit outside for about 5minutes for the glue to cool down and solidify completely, then glue around the edges some more, and repeat.

 

[Garth Schafluetzel]

this bugs me as well because i will try to cut pieces for my friends and mount them to rubble and everytime it seems they come off. whats worse is having all your corals knocked off at night by snails and the brown polyps stinging them lol

 

[ahayes13]

yeah i hate having any new frags of zoos or palys in my display cause my turbos always seem to knock all the newly glued off... errrrgggghhh

 

[Russellaqua]

softies are notoriously hard to glue down. I've had luck skewering them with a sewing needle that has some fishing line attached to it. Wrap that around the rock or plug and tie a knot. Eventually the frag will attach itself and it keeps the coral in place. It's harder to do on zoos, but for leathers it's great.

 

[MarvinsReef]

Yeah those Rastas are a pain to frag! Palys seem so much easier compared to zoas.

you lost the Rastas? yikes!!!

 

[Paintguru]

you lost the Rastas? yikes!!!

Not the whole colony . Just one of the 2-3 polyp frags that I made (at least I think I lost one...a few of my frags have not reopened). The colony is doing very well, so I figured I would try fragging a few polyps off of it.

 

[Briney Dave]

anyone try to use the accelerator along with super glue?? its supposed to set instantly
I have some but have not tried it yet

 

[Paintguru]

anyone try to use the accelerator along with super glue?? its supposed to set instantly
I have some but have not tried it yet

Never heard of this. More info would be great. A few more of my frags fell off today . I must be putting too much glue on.

 

[Pazazz]

I use water activated coral glue and never have any issues. Have you tried this yet Chris?

 

[Paintguru]

I use water activated coral glue and never have any issues. Have you tried this yet Chris?

No, where does one get such a product?

 

[flricordia]

I haven't really had that problem. Maybe the type of glue? I love the Loctite super glue gel. When I frag though I do try my best to scrape some of the base the zoas are attatched to. I am thinking it might have to do witht he glue though. The Loctite is really one of the best I have ever used.

 

[Paintguru]

I haven't really had that problem. Maybe the type of glue? I love the Loctite super glue gel. When I frag though I do try my best to scrape some of the base the zoas are attatched to. I am thinking it might have to do witht he glue though. The Loctite is really one of the best I have ever used.

Most of those look like palys, which I agree, are much easier. Stupid zoas are so small that it is hard to get enough flesh transferred over to glue. Perhaps I just didn't let them dry long enough in the air.

 

[igot2gats]

No, where does one get such a product?

Home Depot / Lowe's

 

[Saltysteele]

ya know, i've been thinking about this. i've got a piece of rubble rock that i have a couple (well, had) paly's glued to. one is still fine. the other, i had found the paly floating around the bottom of the tank (had been lost a while, the stem was fully healed and rounded over) and glued it on the rock.

first, i fully dried the rock and let it sit outside the tank a couple minutes (dried with a towel on the spot where was going to glue). i dried the bottom of the paly off, and let it sit on top of the tank for a couple minutes. applied glue to the rock, and to the bottom of the paly, and placed it. let it sit outside the tank for 3-4 minutes, then glued around the base again. it formed a neat little capsule around the base of the paly.

didn't work, it's gone. but, you'll never believe what i found floating around a couple days later! another polyp of the same paly!!! different polyp. i had forgotten about these, and it would seem they all left me

anyway, i've been thinking of a hybrid method of gluing and sewing. i don't really like the idea of sewing it to the rock (don't know why, just don't like it), but i do like the security of it. obviously, gluing doesn't work for all of them.

so, how about just placing a loop of thread through the stem (just piercing it and making a loop), and then gluing? this would give the glue something to grab hold of, separate from the slimy stem?

 

[Saltysteele]

also, when gluing pieces of RR to a larger rock, i'll glue, then use a syringe to apply some sw over it (as sw sets it), and then glue some more. that seems to work pretty well for applying rr, and even my mexican turbo's can't knock it off!