Anchoring Corals

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A friend of mine has a 12 gallon nano cube and have just added a few pieces of coral which include: a torch coral, frogspawn, and a couple of zoo's. He was wondering when they will begin to anchor themselves down because the cleaning crew ( electric blue hermit crabs) seem to rearranging them. Any info would be great.

 

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Use either (or both of) Superglue Gel or any one of the epoxy cement formulas that are available at your LFS.

Here's an example:
http://www.jlaquatics.com/phpstore/store_pages/details/supplies.php?product_ID=MC-DELEP

 

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Welcome to RC
I use Loc-Tite superglue gel, any cyanoacrylate glue will work. I had no luck with epoxy, but some people swear by it. Remove the rock and the frag, dry a section of the surface of each, apply glue, stick them together, let it cure in a bucket of tank water for a few minutes and voila, one secured frag

 

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Blinky said:

Welcome to RC

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Lol, your confusing the newcomers, this is AC...

 

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• Jan 22, 2006

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Oh for goodness' sake, I need to stop forum hopping! Sorry tslabaugh, welcome to AC.

 

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LOL, never mind i forum hop all the time, i normally have 3 forums open and switch from one to the other.