Frag glue

[Lowenbrau]

I have several corals and some DBTC's that are ready for fragging. What do you recommend for Zoas? Mushrooms? Thanks all............

 

[ReefCheif]

If you can break a piece of the rock or frag plug off with the polyps still attached that is ideal, you can then glue that chunk of rock to a frag plug. Otherwise i use an exacto knife and I cut the zoa as close to the rock or plug as I possibly can and glur it to a plug. For glue they make a special type of reef safe super glue that is not supposed to be harmful to corals. Be careful not to get the head of the polyp in the glue otherwise it wont be able to open. As for mushrooms Im not sure, never actually fragged em. They come loose fomr time to time and I just put them in a container in the tank with some rock rubble, they eventually attach to one of the rocks and you can then glue said rock to a plug. Ive nenver been able to just glue a mushroom to a plug, there too slimy.

As for mushrooms Im not sure,

 

[CRW Reef]

Ambrosio Aquatics is selling some awesome bottles of glue cheap!!!! Should pm him

 

[coloagro]

People on here have used Loc-tite from a hardware store. Not sure of the specific type of Loc-tite but I know its supposed to work and be safe....I guess!

 

[SteveT]

People on here have used Loc-tite from a hardware store. Not sure of the specific type of Loc-tite but I know its supposed to work and be safe....I guess!

you want the GEL type loc-tite. That is what I use and it works great. The other type is much too liquid. Any superglue made with cyanoacrylate is reef safe and acceptable to use. I have used other types of super glue marketed for frag gluing and I keep going back to the loc-tite GEL. It has a nice thick consistency and cures very quickly once exposed to water.

 

[Badgervet]

I've gentle pried off mushrooms off rocks with a sharp probe when they've divided and over ran the spot I had for them. There is a youtube video that talks about fragging mushrooms if your looking at cutting up your mushrooms to get more pieces. I can't get my green mushrooms to stop dividing! They are taking over one section of the tank.

I also agree with Reef, try to take some rock with the zoa pieces. I've had some success getting under the polyp mat (without taking rock with it) but I seem to lose more doing it that vs. using a diamond disc/drill to get a piece of the rock and leaving the mat intact.

 

[Lowenbrau]

Thanks....I appreciate it.

 

[WatercolorsGuy]

Don't forget your gloves and glasses.

 

[SteveT]

Don't forget your gloves and glasses.

Yeah, don't be like the few of us who have received the dreaded money shot to the eye from our palys. Not an experience I would like to repeat.

 

[SAZAMA]

nobody should ever take that dreaded money shot, be careful palytoxin could potentially kill you. try explaining that to St. Peter, while I was glueing small animals to rocks....

 

[reefmaster719]

What money shot?

 

[CRW Reef]

What money shot?

http://www.marinecolorado.org/forums/showthread.php?t=14218

 

[reefmaster719]

Wow that's crazy. I dragged some mushrooms today and they got me in the face but I'm not sure if it happens with mushrooms??

 

[reefmaster719]

Fragged some mushrooms*

 

[SteveT]

mushrooms don't have any toxin but will still squirt. Just getting tank water shot in your eye could still pose a problem from bacterial infection.

 

[reefmaster719]

Wow. Thanks for the info. I'm about to frag 20 Corals tommo and most are zoas so Im glad I read this! Glasses and gloves eh?

 

[ShelbyJK500]

Of all the frags I've made, I've found it very easy to use a scraping razor (or scalpel or exacto) and take a layer of rock or whatever the surface the corals are attached to. Taking a layer of rock makes it VERY easy to glue to a frag.

 

[reefmaster719]

How do you take a layer of rock with a razor?

 

[Haulin Oates]

I learned from the best! Aaron (Wicked Demon) used his pocket knife. Kinda like whittling a piece of wood.

 

[reefmaster719]

Can you explain?