Im having trouble fragging some SPS from my system. How do you guys handle the small frags when glueing them onto rocks?? When I g.handle the frags, I can feel myself doing damage to the corals, and have a very low success rate with the frags. Any suggestions??
I dont handle them carefully and they are never hurt. I just rip them off with my bare hands and glue them down. Sometimes they are out of the water for a while and get a little cold, but they always grow after they are conected.
Do you use super glue? Super glue works much better than the other alternitives.
Yeah--The colonies are really healthy. Ive been using the epoxy, which requires some triwting and turning. I am going to switch to the superglue gel. Do both pieces have to be dry??
Do not try to dry the coral frag to glue it. It needs to stay moist. You can dry the rock if you want but it is not neceassary. I think you will have better luck with super glue.
When I'm taking frags from colonies I have for trading or whatever, I use wire cutters to clip branches. I used to be able to remove the colony from the tank, but they have long since encrusted to the rock structure. If I'm receiving frags I use super glue gel only, no epoxy. After acclimation I have my tube of glue gel the live rock rubble I'm going to use and I just put a spot of glue gel, dry only the end of the frag and put it in place. Using the brand Loc-Tite gel you can immediately place the frag back in the water. This stuff hardens fast. HTH...
