Aquascaping

[belallanon]

I've seen many beautiful tanks full of corals in the forums. However, I've always wondered how people arrange their corals and get them to stay in place. Do people actually attach their corals to the rock with epoxy or something? If so, what happens when you need to move a coral or you have to take a piece of rock out? What if you want to reaquascape?

Randy

 

[Anonymous]

They use a stuff called epoxy putty. Its a stick and you acan get it online at any fish site. I have seen some people use rubber bands to make a coral stick to the rock I dont know how well that works but I would suggest the epoxy stick idea it dries to look like coraline algae

 

[belallanon]

Doesn't the putty make it a permanent part of the rock? What happens when you want to move the coral?

 

[Anonymous]

you either clone it or live with it. Corals are usually permanant parts of rocks

 

[belallanon]

If two corals have grown and are now attacking one another, you can't live with that. What would you do in that situation? I'm guessing you'd probably just break one of the corals off the rock. How sturdy is the epoxy? Will it break easily?

Randy

 

[Anonymous]

Doesn't the putty make it a permanent part of the rock? What happens when you want to move the coral?

You can usually yank the epoxy apart if you want to move the coral, it gets rather brittle over time.

Although, those nicely aquascaped tanks are often the result of leaving everything be so it can flourish where it is. I find moving corals about too much really compromises the look of the tank until everyone settles in.

 

[belallanon]

Sounds good. I just have this image of one day finding that although I had placed my torch coral a good distance from others, it has grown and is now in a war with surrounding corals.

 

[panmanmatt]

i just set my corals in place and make sure they don't rock and are real steady. never had one fall over on me yet.