[mike31154]

Having a small frag rack comes in handy sometimes when you're contemplating on where to finally place a piece on your rockwork. In addition, some frags you get may be unmounted and if they are any type of soft coral or mushroom, they need time to attach to a frag plug. I've already lost one yuma ricordia that I crazy glued to a piece of marble & then to the rockwork thinking I was ok & the next day it was gone. They take time to take hold so you need a low flow protected area for them to attach over a period of a week or more.

Sometimes it helps to use a combination of crazy glue & two part epoxy. Use the crazy glue to attach frag to plug, then epoxy to pad the frag plug & attach to the LR. When you try to use crazy glue underwater, it tends to immediately harden & becomes ineffective. That's where the epoxy comes in handy. I've used Elmer Marine epoxy paste stick with some success. It looks like a stick of clay with outside & inner part being the two parts. You tear off a section, knead it between your fingers & then wrap it around the frag plug. I find this works well with odd shaped frag plugs, without a stem on them & allows me to jam them into crevices in the LR. It cures under water. These epoxy sticks are available made specially for our use, but I'm pretty sure they're identical to what I have, simply rebranded & upped in price. You just need to read the label carefully before buying to make sure there are no metal or other additives. Some of the waterproof two part sticks made for the plumbing trade have these nasty additives.

Currently I have a plastic cup attached close to the top of my tank with a couple of ricordia frags on a thin sand bed. Also have one of those square plastic containers that bean or alfalfa sprouts are packaged in at your local grocer with a grouping of zoas & a candy cane on frag plugs waiting for me to decide where I want to place them. Some of them already have holes in them to allow some water circulation, if not, you can always punch in a few more. Some sort of acrylic bracket for hanging them near the top will need to be made. Could use suction cups too, but I never trust them for any length of time, especially with a more valuable specimen.