Zap super glue gel is the best for sps frags and some lps
- the way i use it it i frag the coral and let it sit and recover front the fragging stress, then i pull out a small piece of live rock and i wipe it dry on the side i want to stick the coral onto. i then pull out the coral, and if its sps then i lightly dry the cut end (skeleton). i hold the frag in one hand while i apply the Zap gel in a large glob. the size of the glob ushually depends on the frag base size but you want enough to be able to squish it down into the gel and have it ooze over the cut and a little over the living tissue. yes you have to sacrifice some polyps but you get a better regrow out of the coral. then you hold the frag and the loverock stuck together underwater to speed up the curing..itll take you about 30 seconds to get it to hold and then a couple minutes till the bond is trustworthy to sit in the flow path with out blowing the coral off
-water is an inducer and will cure everythnig 5x faster, and it also creates a "shield" around the gel bubble if water gets on it causing a weaker bond
but i highly recommend Zap gel (and once you open it you have to seal it up from the hole you punched [with plastic wrap] not just spinning the cap on)
i tend to stay away from epoxy when dealing with fragging and use it to anchor rocks or unstable coral bases to rock
and the only "corals" i know that cant come out of water are sponges and other water heavy corals.... but you simply have to drain those guys
- the way i use it it i frag the coral and let it sit and recover front the fragging stress, then i pull out a small piece of live rock and i wipe it dry on the side i want to stick the coral onto. i then pull out the coral, and if its sps then i lightly dry the cut end (skeleton). i hold the frag in one hand while i apply the Zap gel in a large glob. the size of the glob ushually depends on the frag base size but you want enough to be able to squish it down into the gel and have it ooze over the cut and a little over the living tissue. yes you have to sacrifice some polyps but you get a better regrow out of the coral. then you hold the frag and the loverock stuck together underwater to speed up the curing..itll take you about 30 seconds to get it to hold and then a couple minutes till the bond is trustworthy to sit in the flow path with out blowing the coral off
-water is an inducer and will cure everythnig 5x faster, and it also creates a "shield" around the gel bubble if water gets on it causing a weaker bond
but i highly recommend Zap gel (and once you open it you have to seal it up from the hole you punched [with plastic wrap] not just spinning the cap on)
i tend to stay away from epoxy when dealing with fragging and use it to anchor rocks or unstable coral bases to rock
and the only "corals" i know that cant come out of water are sponges and other water heavy corals.... but you simply have to drain those guys
