attaching GSP to glass?

[Gilraen Took]

Okay. I've used my handy dandy(notebook!) superglue gel a few times, and the frag I've got just won't stay on the glass. I'd heard that you could just glue them on(and I want them growing on the glass, not the rockwork) so that was what I'd tried. I doubt it is the glue, since it holds my zoa frags to rocks, or rocks to other rocks without a problem. So I figured that maybe the glass was dirty. So I scrubbed it clean. Still the same problem. It will stay on the glass for a few minutes, then the glue will just stop holding. The current theory is that the smooth surface just won't allow it to stick all the way.

Any ideas?

[afbengochea]

could u just lean the rock on the glass and just let it grow onto it. Thats what I did with my xenia

[ReefNeck]

What afbengochea said is the only way I have found that works. My wife had some growing on the glass in her 55G. We just broke the tank down and moved it into a 75G so now she has to do it again.

[Twitterbait]

you could burn that evil stuff instead... i don't like GSP because it is soooo invasive and will take over the tank. one thing you can try is use a rubber band to attach it to a small rock. when it has attached to the rock just glue the rock to the tank wall instead.

[Gilraen Took]

Heh, the rock with glue is what I was trying with my anthelia(was going to put one on one side, the other on the other) The rock didn't stick to the glass either *smacks head*

I really don't want to lean a rock up against the glass with the polyps on it though, because I want to keep some room between the rocks and GPS so when it starts getting close all I need to do is razor it off, not blow torch the rock that has corals stuck to it.

Edit: as also hoping to get it to start off a bit higher in the tank so I can watch its spread a bit more closely, instead of having it sneak up on the bottom side of my rockwork.

[afbengochea]

ok I got it. Get one of those plastic soap dish with the suction cups and put a piece of the gsp on that. That way, when it grows from the dish to the glass u can just take a razor blade to it and cut the dish off

[Gilraen Took]

How about just a suction cup? I've got a couple of spares laying around the house I think.

[Wiskey]

I did this,... I took one of those magnet frag plugs, put the GSP on that, and it quickly grew off onto my glass in the top left corner of my tank.

It was called a Frag Mag. Search the BB fourm for that and you will see pics of them.

Whiskey

[Fly Guy]

Originally Posted by Wiskey

I did this,... I took one of those magnet frag plugs, put the GSP on that, and it quickly grew off onto my glass in the top left corner of my tank.

It was called a Frag Mag. Search the BB fourm for that and you will see pics of them.

Whiskey

lol...thats a great idea. Gilraen......if you want a couple of my DIY ones PM me and simply pay a couple bucks for shipping and ill give you a couple.

I made a bunch of DIY frag mags and some of my first designs werent strong enough for what i wanted to do with them. They will hold some GSP no problem though to accomplish what you want, and you can simply glue the GSP on them out of the water so it will be a bulletproof glue job. It will save you a few bucks as the frag mags are like $6 apiece, and i will never use these weaker ones I made.

Unless your tank is thicker than 1/2", they will work great

[reefermike1]

that would be cool, i wanted to do my overflow box and powerheads, i was afraid id have a hard time scraping it off acrylic though when it did grow onto the tank

[Gilraen Took]

I think I'll try the suction cup thingy first, and if that doesn't work I'll toss a few dollars your way to get a frag mag shipped to me. Definately is not more than 1/2".