Coral Mounting Question

[yzfr6]

What is the best products to use to adhere coral to live rocks, I have heard of using epoxy glue, etc. Wanted to know what everyone else was using. Thanks

[Sugar Magnolia]

Cyanoacrylate gel. Brand names would be superglue gel, loctite.

[returnofsid]

Gel Superglue works awesome, with SPS, Zoanthids and most LPS. Doesn't work well for Soft corals at all though. Soft corals need to be treated a totally different way. Usually, I poke a toothpick through them and then into a hole in my live rock. Other times, you can use wedding veil to "net" them to a piece of rubble. You can also use nylon thread to "sew" them to rock. Another option is to put them in a small tupperware or even a shot glass with some sand or rubble in the bottom of it. This will protect them from flow long enough for them to attach to the sand or rubble.

[Fizz71]

Superglue Gel in the tank for sps, out of the tank for zoas.

Leathers and xenia I've used toothpicks and rubberbands and kept them in a low flow area untl they attach to a small rock, then move the rock.

Shrooms and rics I stick in a plastic cup (in the tank) with rubble until they attach to it, then reloacte. You can cut the bottom of the cup and "screw it" into the sand, layer with rubble and put the shrooms on top.

[tims28gnano]

+1 for fizz

check youtube, you can find guys that do it right in front of you!

[drparker]

Super glue to plug. Reef epoxy plug to rock work.

[imcosmokramer]

some people glue the frag to a small piece of rock, then epoxy the rock in the desired spot. If you attach the epoxy directly to sps, it can burn the coral.