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bugzme 
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Posted: April 11 2010 at 12:46pm |
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Is there anything special I need to do for the frags to stay put? superglue gel?
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Posted: April 11 2010 at 3:25pm |
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well its pretty hard unless there's a good coraline algae already on the glass otherwise if it barely gets bumped it will usually just slip off
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Posted: April 11 2010 at 3:33pm |
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Jeff has lots of coraline algae though. Very mature tank. Awesome stuff.
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Posted: April 11 2010 at 4:01pm |
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Thanks I'm going to give it a try. Is it hard to get them to stick to the plastic overflows also?
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Posted: April 11 2010 at 4:36pm |
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I have had better luck gluing them to the black overflow then clean glass.
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Posted: April 11 2010 at 6:51pm |
I tried to glue frags to the back glass of my tank and even with a large amount of coraline, I didn't have much success.
I never used epoxy. Always tried superglue. Let us know is you happen on to a solution.
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Posted: April 11 2010 at 7:07pm |
I tried superglue and epoxy but didn't have much success either. Good luck.
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Posted: April 11 2010 at 7:21pm |
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If the tank were dry, there are quite a few things you could use, but I'm not aware of anything that works underwater and bonds to glass.
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Posted: April 11 2010 at 7:51pm |
It depends on what kind of coral frags.
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Posted: April 11 2010 at 11:35pm |
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I glued a montipora digi to the back overflow no problem with superglue. Still there 6 months later!
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Posted: April 13 2010 at 11:21pm |
you could always buy some frag mags from here http://www.aqua-mags.com/
its a magnetic frag plug that makes it easy to attach coral to the back wall.
Edited by kellerexpress - April 13 2010 at 11:22pm
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Posted: April 14 2010 at 7:16am |
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Thanks just ordered some!
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Posted: April 14 2010 at 9:49am |
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Nice, I was just going to suggest the frag mags until I saw someone else posted about them. I was thinking that a couple monti caps would be cool growing out from the glass. Reminds me of those conk things that grow on the side of trees.
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