Frag mounts. What do you use?

[mecold]

How many members use frag disks or plugs? Which plugs/disks have you tried. Lastly, do you have or plan to have a small prop tank or area in your tank to grow out frags?

Personally, I have tried the boston aquafarms plugs and disks, and the ceramic plugs. They both have worked well for me. Now there are at least 5 different manufacturers of plugs and disks, and they all seem to be pretty nice to use.

A friend of mine actually buys tonga branch and slices it into disks for fragging, while another uses white marble tiles. I am considering trying some white limestone rocks since limestone is calcium

Paul

[Loverotties]

Small live rocks!

[skillplyr55]

Live rock Rubble for me

[raycityboy1]

I used frag plugs from aqua group on ebay, they sell the glue and the plugs. Now I don't even use the plugs b/c gluing single polyps is a PITA. I set my 30 up for a frag tank. I lined the bottom with a thin layer of peagravel. I threw some frags in there last week and let them just fall where they wanted to. Today I checked on them and many had attached themselves to pcs of rock without any help. I found that all the frags no matter how small found a way to reach the light. Just goes to show, if life can...it will find a way. I agree with the above posts for the simple fact that it is so much easier to glue a small pebble to a plug rather than a single polyp. I don't have to mount them to plugs but it does look better for selling and it allows me to be more organized while waiting for pcs to mature to a sellable state.

[MikeAtJax]

I like the boston type reef plugs for SPS. Easy to attach the coral to and when the coral is ready to be mounted I can crush the plug and mount the frag directly to the live rock. I don't like the look of plug sitting on top of live RL.

[salt-rookie]

DO NOT try poker chips..they are TERRIBLE! TRUST me on this one!

[mecold]

Originally Posted by salt-rookie

DO NOT try poker chips..they are TERRIBLE! TRUST me on this one!

[mbdave]

I have used many things, but my favorites are small pieces of rock and those flower stem things filled with sand (cant remember the peoper name for them)

[ScubaTC]

I agree with Mike. I prefer the plugs that can be crushed or chipped for easy placement.

I've used plugs, discs and small pieces of LR. Also cut branches from dead SPS that would fit through the crate without falling through.

IMO the small pieces of LR have more of a chance of getting knocked over on its side, on another frag, or off the side of the egg crate shelf and into the sand, etc. Unless the LR has a flat level underside, disk and plugs are better in this case. LR look better though. Plugs tend to take up the least amount of space. For some, space is very limited.

Just last Saturday I came across a few suction cups for airline tubing and used them to attach a small egg crate shelf to the back wall of the tank. I then immediately began fragging some of my SPS:









And when you run out of room!!!...

[ScubaTC]

btw: When I was done with these on Saturday, I showed my wife and kids. One of my daughters said that it looks just like a candy store. LOL Little does she know that is exactly what the LFS is!!

[LadyReefNeck]

I don't have any SPS to frag (well maybe a Pavona coral) but I always have a pile of small rock rubble, small sea shells and old empty snail shells in my sump ready to use for mushrooms, rics, zoos. etc.

I've found that if you place these in amongst the shrooms or zoos, they'll eventually grow or move onto them and you have a ready-made frag to give away. (Just last week, I passed along a frag of Mecold "Cursed" zoas to a fellow from Gainsville)

I find they look more natural than the plugs/disks too.

[LadyReefNeck]

ScubaTC ... I like your use of the old LPS coral skeleton.

Not sure how long that skeleton has been dead, but if it was only within last 4-6 months be prepared for new life to sprout from it. I had one that died off, but I left it in the tank as LR and it resprouted 5 new frogspawn heads about 5 months later.

[ScubaTC]

Originally Posted by LadyReefNeck

ScubaTC ... I like your use of the old LPS coral skeleton.

Not sure how long that skeleton has been dead, but if it was only within last 4-6 months be prepared for new life to sprout from it. I had one that died off, but I left it in the tank as LR and it resprouted 5 new frogspawn heads about 5 months later.

The last head on it died sometime last month. Was waiting for it to die too so I could use if for the frags. Plus decided to not have these in my tank because of the long sweeps that sting other corals at night when water flow is reduced.

[LadyReefNeck]

Originally Posted by ScubaTC

The last head on it died sometime last month. Was waiting for it to die too so I could use if for the frags. Plus decided to not have these in my tank because of the long sweeps that sting other corals at night when water flow is reduced.

I can understand your point about the sweepers with your SPS. You may want to keep an eye on it though as mine sprouted the new heads between the old dead ones



Sorry for taking the thread OT.

Need another plug for the Plugs thread.