Frag placement question

[Anonymous]

Got my first SPS frags a few weeks ago and I have a question about the placement. I'd rather not glue the ugly frag base onto my live rock. A few of the frags were able to be wedged into the rock securely, but this one frag keeps tipping over and getting knocked over by my inhabitants. Any reason I shouldn't bury the ugly base into the sand like this?

 

[Sea Turtle]

I don't see what is so ugly about it. Is there a plug under the sand? Just crazy glue the sucker rigth onto a rock. I looks fine. :| You must have some high standars.

 

[Anonymous]

Beautiful coral.

I usually glue to plug onto the rock. The frag will eventually completely encrust the plug.

The other thing I do is glue the frag onto a small piece of rock, then glue that small rock onto a bigger rock in the tank.

Louey

 

[Anonymous]

I don't see what is so ugly about it. Is there a plug under the sand? Just crazy glue the sucker rigth onto a rock. I looks fine. :| You must have some high standars.

I don't view the square, base of this plug as being particularly attractive. If I just glue it to some rock, it will be visible for some time to come. Here it is just on top of some LR.

 

[Unarce]

Just reshape the square plug with some pliers or frag cutters, to some degree of irregularity. Then glue it to you rockwork.

 

[Anonymous]

Is it the coral you don't want to glue? or the square plug? An easy solution is simply to snap the coral off the plug, it doesn't look like it's encrusted at all on it anyways.

 

[Petsolutions]

Personally, I would just glue the frag to the rocks and let the coral encrust over the plug. Depending on your lighting and calcium, we see frags like that here completely grow over their plugs in a matter of just a couple of months. If you are still completely against doing that for a couple months, then the other suggestions above should serve you well, just be careful when handling the piece if you are going to be cutting it off of a base.

 

[Anonymous]

I'm with SFSU. It looks like you could pop it off the plug rather easily. I also dislike most frag plugs, as even once the coral encrusts over them they retain their unnatural shapes.

 

[Saltlick]

I am with these guys on all accounts. First I would take some bone cutters to it, or a dremel tool
or a chisel and bust it up to the size you want. LIKELY during one or more of these operations, the
frag is going to pop off, so you can do the method of your choice, or jump straight to the most
likely outcome, and popping it off first. I have a dremel, so that would be my choice, the least likely to
pop the frag off, too.

 

[Ben1]

Looks to me like a nice flat screwdriver would pop it right off allowing super gluing where ever you'd like it.

 

[jamesw]

Yeah, I would cut it loose with some "diagonal cutters" aka dykes. Then I would lay it down sideways and glue it to a rock w/ underwater epoxy. Frags should be mounted on their side, not sticking up.

Cheers
James