Acro Attached to platic screw

[ajwaters]

New to the acro corals and the LFS i go to has them attached to about a 2 in plastic looking screw. I should the screw be removed from the coral or should i drill a hole in the live rock and place the screw with coral attched in it?

 

[gregm779]

The screw is called a plug, they use it to grow the pieces out. What I do is drill a hole in the rock, cut off most of the plug, maybe leave a half an inch and then superglue the plug into the hole I drilled. Try to completely put the plug into the hole so that the acro will eventually grow over it.

 

[reefnut]

i have always removed the coral from the plug and glued the coral to the rock...

 

[ajwaters]

How do you remove the coral from the plug with a razor knife? i dont really want to drill a hole in the rock.

 

[reefnut]

Razor knife, screw driver etc. Usually they will come off pretty easy.