SPS frag mounting Q&A

[michaeltx]

my question is this when I see people fraggin SPS corals and mouting them why do people stand them upright?
TO get better growth and muti directional growth place the frag on its side and glue down it. If its an encrusting type it will still encrust the plug but it will also shoot up risers in several different spots along the horizontal piece.
Mike

 

[grabbitt]

I use the escape growth method when I frag my digis. They actually do grow faster when you attach them upside-down or on their side.

 

[reefkprz]

Originally Posted by MichaelTX
http:///forum/post/2638523
my question is this when I see people fraggin SPS corals and mouting them why do people stand them upright?
*S* it looks more natural mounted in the original growth position, If I intend to sell the coral I mount it in the upright position, I have mounted them on the sides and had people tell me its fallen over, or doesnt look healthy just because its sideways...

 

[michaeltx]

yeah but thats only till it starts to grow out. then it looks much better and fuller IMO.
Mike

 

[reefkprz]

Originally Posted by MichaelTX
http:///forum/post/2640212
yeah but thats only till it starts to grow out. then it looks much better and fuller IMO.
Mike
I agree.

 

[markeo99]

so I am getting some sps frags if I glue them down sideways does it increase my chances of the glue killing it

 

[alix2.0]

no the glue wont kill it, it will grow from both ends.

 

[paintballer768]

Hmm that would actually be quite cool. It would probably make people feel like they got "more for their money" if they saw it start to grow out.

 

[coraljunky]

I don't have any documented proof but......most sps frags that I've mounted encrust faster when the exposed skeleton is mounted to the plug. Coral seems to repair itself before it continues to grow. Am I making sense?

Sounds like a RfkprZ experiment

 

[reefkprz]

hmm, and I just happen to have a piece of brown/pink digita that would work great.
I need more tanks. I'm seriously getting crunched for space.
I'll see what I can work out.

 

[spanko]

Well here is what E. Borneman thinks.
SPS frags should be glued or laid on their sides to expose more of the axial corallites vertically as it occurs in nature when a wave knocks a piece off (per Eric Borneman)

 

[reefkprz]

it makes sense you take one axial coralite with 5 radial coralites and lay it down you now have 5 axial coralites and on radial. 5x the total axial growth, not speed wise but you'll then have the coral shooting out growths from newly developing radial coralites. I understand the theory, I just want to see it in action first hand.