Pet Peeve - Do you or don't you?

[Nano]

I hate it, I bought some zoo's a long time ago on disks, and now, I'm afraid I will be stuck with them on the disk. I much prefer to just get the cuttings and glue them myself, or have them mounted on small pieces of LR that looks more like it belongs

[christyf5]

I put them on frag racks if they're very small and allow them to grow a little (or a lot, sometimes they stay on there for months due to lack of time to mount them). For the most part they usually just encrust onto the frag plug which is a pain but then I whack the bottom off and epoxy it to the rock much (much) later. otherwise it usually gets lost in the tank as a small frag.

For the larger colonies that come on those chunks of rock I usually remove them and mount them directly to the rock. For some reason I can't throw the rock out so it ends up in the sump, spreading its lovely hitch hiker wonderfulness to the rest of the tank

[Arok3000]

This may appeal to some who don't like having to cut, trim, and mount their frag plugs.
Apparently you don't have to drill either, just find a small crevice and twist them in. It looks to be a nice small profile also so the frag has a better chance of seamlessly covering the plug and rock.

Found the info here:
http://reefbuilders.com/2012/01/17/reeftap-frag-plug/

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by Delphinus

to find loosely attached corals and remove them from their mounting points.

you could stop "loosely" mounting them

[paddyob]

Anti plug.

Have two. Hate them. In fact. Passing on a couple rics to get one gone.

[ScubaSteve]

Yes, frag plugs **** me off. I'll raise that one further to say that it annoys me to no end when people mount frags vertically on the plugs, especially tabling acros. First of all, encrusting rates of frags are higher when flesh touches the rock. This is a scientifically proven fact. Second, if I see one more efflo or solitaryensis mounted vertically I might snap. This leads to retarded looking growth patterns.

If my frags aren't encrusted I pop them off the frag plugs in a heart beat and will usually mount them to rubble on an angle to that 1/2" of flesh is touching (I got my purple bonsai to completely encrust the rubble in just over a week this way) and mount the rubble to the rock.

That being said, I do have frag plugs in my tank from incoming frags I couldn't pop off. And it kills me every time I look at them. Grow corals, grow! I don't want to look at those stupid plugs!

[Chowder]

I like mounting my new pieces to bigger frag pluggs and then mount the whole thing to the rock. It instantly gives the small frags I have a ta;;er look. Kinda like Platform shoes.

[Lampshade]

I took this pic just for you guys. Yes, it's an ORA Red Planet, and yes, it's mounted on a frag disk that's nearly bigger than it.


Haha, generally i avoid it, but didn't want to risk anything with this guy. I have a few that i mounted awhile ago on frag plugs that have completely encrusted now. I have a couple that have grown 100% outwards and will not encrust onto the plug, those are in the future plans to break off and reattach. I would say that 80%+ of my frags i removed from the frag plugs, but sometimes the plugs are much easier to glue to the rock....

[don.ald]

Originally Posted by Aquattro

Anytime I get a new coral or frag, I cut it off the base and mount it directly to the rock. It drives me to see people puttying frag plugs, or worse, chunks of maricultured bases to their rock work. Even after the coral encrusts, I can see the outline of the plug/base.
Who does it which way and why?

Originally Posted by kien

frag plugs and discs drive me bananas ! However, I do use rubble to mount my frags and then mount the rubbled with frag to my rockwork. I like doing this because it is slightly less ugly and allows me to easily move the frag around which I do frequently.

mount it directly? how? any pics?

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by don.ald

mount it directly? how? any pics?

Just wrap a bit of putty around base, stuff it in a crevice. Pretty simple, then frag encrusts onto the rock.