Plastic cable ties for aquascaping

[George]

<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by pocilipora:
Cable ties will soon be covered with coraline algae. Im not sure why after 1 year Georges cable ties are still showing!<hr></blockquote>

Two reasons:
1. after I switched my lights to 250w iwaski, the coraline algae growing on light exposed area is a lighter color than before. Almost looks like "breaching".
2. I have a tuxedo urchin actively running around and munching on every bit of coraline algea it can find. You can see from the picture that my rocks are also bare of coraline algae.

Regards,
George

[ 01 February 2002: Message edited by: George ]</p>

[chwkreefer]

I have used those plastic cable ties for probably going on 3 years. They have worked fine. As mentioned earlier, the fact that coralline has an affinity for plastic helps to cover those things up fairly quick.

What I did in some cases was put some epoxy putty on/around the cable tie to help blend it in with the rockwork. After awhile it all gets covered up and you can't even find the tie anymore. I did that a few times to make a bigger rock out of a couple of smaller ones.