How do your frags stay in place??

[yesjenks]

I am getting very frustrated with frag placement! I don't have a frag tank, or frag rack. I buy all my frags on plugs. I find good locations for them but some of the spots I choose the holes are too small for the plug. Others the angle which the plus rests puts the frag at a bad angle.

How do you get your frags to stay? Do you glue them? Usually this ends up with me getting glue all over the place and leaving a frag not so secure.

Curious what you all do.

 

[Widdy]

Epoxy (Two Little Fishies or Boston Aqua Farms) plus IC-Gel works well for me. I take the frag off the plug or pop the stem off so it's flat.

 

[CoralReefer]

MING a fellow reefer gave me really good advice on the best way to attach plugs or sps to rock. He told me to use both putty(epoxy) and glue. You put a tiny bit of glue on the epoxy and push it into the frag and then another drop of glue on the epoxy on the other side.

So it goes In this order from top to bottom
Frag, glue, epoxy,glue, rock

 

[thirty6]

the epoxy has worked for me in past, drives skimmer nutty though

 

[Tonyscoots84]

Get gel glue cut the stem off the plug and then put the glue on the bottom of the disc and put it on your rock while placing it work it in a circular motion until it grabs

 

[JonnyJ]

Get gel glue cut the stem off the plug and then put the glue on the bottom of the disc and put it on your rock while placing it work it in a circular motion until it grabs

Exactly what I do. Id rather them on a plug so I can easily shift them to a different location if they aren't happy with light or flow intensity. Can be an eyesore for a while but it's much less stressful when things need to be shifted

 

[Mattl22]

Best way I've found !
First put some super glue gel on ur finger tip and rub the glue on the spot of rock ur gonna attach the frag then cut steam off plug put a good glob super gel on the back of plug with steam cut off then place frag in spot u rubbed glue on twist and turn until frag has good hold

 

[wonderballz]

MING a fellow reefer gave me really good advice on the best way to attach plugs or sps to rock. He told me to use both putty(epoxy) and glue. You put a tiny bit of glue on the epoxy and push it into the frag and then another drop of glue on the epoxy on the other side.

So it goes In this order from top to bottom
Frag, glue, epoxy,glue, rock

This is my method for placing frags. I also used this method to hold my aquascape.


Sent from my SPH-L710 using Reefs

 

[yesjenks]

Thanks for all the suggestions guys! Gonna buy some epoxy.

 

[8pixel]

I've done this a few times with flexible tubing and sometimes doubling up to fill the hole better.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbh4iEKlIUw&list=FLNRr96oLqudCaz-2CDJCjaA

 

[Bry17nyc]

I've done this a few times with flexible tubing and sometimes doubling up to fill the hole better.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbh4iEKlIUw&list=FLNRr96oLqudCaz-2CDJCjaA

I've never seen this before
Clever idea!
I'm going to try that

 

[yesjenks]

Stupid question, how do you cut the base of the frag plug?

 

[fishman1069]

Stupid question, how do you cut the base of the frag plug?

Bone cutters ,a pair of dykes or a dremel

 

[BaaMNYC]

I've done this a few times with flexible tubing and sometimes doubling up to fill the hole better.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbh4iEKlIUw&list=FLNRr96oLqudCaz-2CDJCjaA

this is a really good idea. I been taking my live rock out and drilling holes into my LR but the size of the plug. So the whole is pretty big. this pegging idea is more flexible because you can attach the peg at different angles onto the coral or base. thumbs up!