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chris.rogers 
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Posted: January 22 2013 at 10:45am |
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I have some GSP that I've got in my tank, it's not attached to anything, and it keeps moving even though I've tried to pin it with a small bit of rock. I've heard of using super glue, but... Seriously? So you really just dab a bit of super glue gel and touch it to the rock? That's it? Feels weird.
How do you attach GSP to your live rock?
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Posted: January 22 2013 at 10:52am |
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Yes super glue for everything in my tank. I use the super glue gel from dollar tree. Take it out of your tank super glue the bottom of the rock or frag plug and hold in on the rock in your tank where you want it to stay for 30-60 seconds firmly. Done.
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Posted: January 22 2013 at 10:55am |
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Just dont put the glue on the wrong side of the gsp.
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Posted: January 22 2013 at 12:01pm |
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And make sure the glue is a gel lol liquid super glue just makes a hitrible mess
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Posted: January 22 2013 at 12:27pm |
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Yup...super glue gel. It was originally developed for military use on sealing wounds, and it works just great on coral tissue too!
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Posted: January 22 2013 at 2:18pm |
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you can also use a rubber band for a few days or thick fishing line just be sure to remove after a few days, but once you do get gsp to attach if your paramaters are good it with quickly spread over entire rock, the stuff will even grow on sand, glass, pretty much anything you let it touch so if you dont want it all over be sure to isolate it to a rock not touching other rocks, that or periodically peel it off / scrub the areas you dont want with a toothbrush with the rock removed from the tank.
Edited by Bryce - January 22 2013 at 2:19pm
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Posted: January 24 2013 at 12:02pm |
Yep I second that, superglue gell all the way for any coral that has a hard skeleton. As for soft corals (some zoas sometimes) its a little trickier. The superglue usually holds at first but then they shed their mucos membrane and come free a couple days later. If you can get them in an area with not much flow and set them in a plastic cup on some gravel or a small rock, or strap them down with a rubber band. then once they attach on their own you can put them where you want them. Zoas i usually superglue, making sure to only get the glue on the bottom so that they can still open fully, and them leave them in an area with very little flow so that they reattached as they slowly shed the glue. Otherwise they seem to end up missing after a few days!
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Posted: January 24 2013 at 12:04pm |
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when glueing frag plugs, just stick the whole tube of glue right into the tank, squeeze it onto the rock with one hand and then press the plug onto the glue with the other. It dries underwater almost instantly so you have to be quick. It dries contained to that one spot and doesnt spread anywhere so its safe for the fish and everything else in there.
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Posted: January 24 2013 at 12:46pm |
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There's no plug for the GSP; the guy I got it from just kinda ripped it off his sandbed.
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Posted: January 24 2013 at 3:14pm |
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ya just put the glue right on the bottom of the purple skeleton
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Posted: January 24 2013 at 5:07pm |
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I still can't get over how weird that is.
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