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maestro
25-10-06, 12:58
I love the aquacultured sps but for my size tank the plugs look huge and unsightly.

Is there anyways to transfer the corals from the plug to the rocks, though about chipping away the plug with a hammer, snapping the coral at the base and remounting the whole thing on the rocks with a bit of putty and also taking a large frag from the original colony?

any thoughts? ideas?
instantsquid
25-10-06, 13:12
Simon C (SPS Hoover) mentioned this the other day somewhere - apparently the corals can either be twisted off the base, or cut through the joint with a fine saw. Haven't tried it myself, but probably will next time.

- Ian
Tony B
25-10-06, 14:10
Personally, I'd do the same as when I'm fragging sps - just get a good pair of wire clippers from Wicks/B&Q (ensure you wash them and they are grease free). Snip the sps right off it's base and position with milliput. Dose tank with iodine for good measure.

I'd be inclined to wait a few weeks to let the coral fully adjust to your tank's conditions before removing it from the base it came on.
maestro
25-10-06, 14:26
Tony, does the milliput 'burn' the corals at all?
ickypimp
25-10-06, 14:33
No it doesnt.. i mount acro frags with milliput with no ill effect ..

it puts me off cutting them at the bottom when they are nicely encrusted over the base
bristlebasher
25-10-06, 15:12
Posed the same question on another site - the consensus was to take a pair of cutters snip off at the base and then mount. If there is any encrusting growth left on the plug - that be a frag that can be grown out.;)
Stevielad
25-10-06, 16:53
Mounting onto rawlplus or rigid airline tube and then putting this into a hole drilled in the LR is a nice method that allows repositioning.

There is a vid re this on reefvideos.com
maestro
25-10-06, 19:55
Yeah i saw that vid, looks like a good idea, the only problem is my rock is putty'd in place, Id have to take it all down to drill the holes.
Paul
26-10-06, 00:43
Mounting onto rawlplus or rigid airline tube and then putting this into a hole drilled in the LR is a nice method that allows repositioning.

There is a vid re this on reefvideos.com

Nice link mate, thanks for that, i'm about to re-aquascape my tank, and i see the future, its a drill, with a masonry bit on the end ;)