I glue 7 polyps of purple death palys permanently closed today....

[Sir Patrick]

I could have sworn I grabbed up super glue gel....but didnt. I treated the tube as gel should be. I went to put a dab on the botton side of the frag, and glue just went every where!!! Glued the poor polyps closed forever! They were stuck to my finger for a sec!

I still have the mother colony, but what a bummer- right???

[Sir Patrick]

Gonna see if i can find a snail!! Not sure if I have any of those right now...

[Sir Patrick]

Just noticed...I glue the little tiny rock w/ my whammin watermellons onto the frag disk upside down....what is wrong with me today????


Anyone else have any not so cool experiences fragging/glueing polyps???

[jimsflies]

It helps if you glue them sunny side up....

Probably a good chance some will make it anyway...esp. the purple deaths. They are so slimy I doubt the glue will stay.

[Sir Patrick]

Its been sort of a blond moment day....

Who else has some stories to tell, while we are on the subject????

[Myteemouse]

when you glue Z's and P's after you apply glue (you should put the glue on the rock then place the polyps on the glue.) place the frag UPSIDE DOWN in the water so the glue doesn't "WICK" up the polyps.

[MizTanks]

Well I was culling my Implosions and got so excited at the ease of which they were coming off that I didn't realize that I had removed the last of my radioactive dragoneyes also.

[Myteemouse]

As for Blond moments. the other day we had a black blenny eating our LPS and SPS in the 29 gallon.
SO we caught it and put it in the 125's sump were it could cause no damage..
WELL black blenny's are NOT afraid of external return pumps.

[jolson10450]

lol just this weekend i was drilling holes in my rock work for frag plugs to fit into. i finally finished and everything looked perfect but during clean up i found my frag of lava chalice still out of the tank waiting for the glue to settle lol. it had to of been out of the water for about 2-3 hours and was completely dried out. well i ended up spending another 30 minutes arranging my rock to make it fit. lucky for me it came back and has had no recession at all and that was on saturday.

ive actually glued the polyps of a zoa shut before and it actually sprung back to life after about a week or 2. i actually still have the frag it is in my mantis tank lol. one of my first zoa fragging experiences gone bad lol.

[streetrodder007]

I just watched a video on youtube last night from Planet Coral about fragging different corals, And the teacher was saying that a lot of common aquarium corals can stay out of the water for hours on end, just like they have to survive when the tide rolls out. He was also talking about coral farmers in the far east shipping corals in wet newspaper for days on end.
Here I sweat it after about 30 seconds of handling them that I am hurting them.