Coral qustions

[PrettyBoy]

When i look at everyones tank pictures their corals look attached to big peices of live rock, some live rock is covered with shrooms and zoos etc... When you buy your corals from the LFS i have seen them come on peices of rock, do you just put the rock in the tank or are you supposed to remove the coral and then glue it to its new peice of live rock if that makes any sense...

 

[malulu]

in the beginning, i was removing them, then glue to my rock! only later on, realaized that is a bad approach...

cause from time to time you will want to move them around, especially you have a new tank, and many new corals gets in, you will end up with suffle them a lots!

now a day, i just keep the orginal plug, or add one on if they don;t come with one, and use the EPOXY to blue the plug to the rock, they are easier to remove later on with the EPOXY glue...

and ofcourse, if you have them for a long time, they will then grow to the base, then you can't easily move them anymore...

 

[PrettyBoy]

how to people cover their rocks with corals then? I guess they are epoxying them? Im just wondering this because I see so many tanks that you barely see live rock, they are completely covered in corals. Some of my shrooms that I got are some pretty thick rocks that dont make them all that easy to place on the verticals of rocks

 

[malulu]

you have few shrooms that attached to some small rocks,
then you attach them small rocks to the big rocks...
after some time, it will then spread and will cover the full big rock...