Superglue gel did not work

[Eric55]

Hi,

I tried to glue 3 small frags attached to plugs to my live rock using superglue gel. The glue stiffened, but never hardened, and never attached my coral to the rock.

I even tried reducing the amount of glue that I applied, but it never worked.

Is there something special I should be doing?

Thanks for any advice!

Eric

[Sk8r]

Get I-C Gel. I know that works. You need a fair sized glop, relative to the piece, and you need to hold it absolutely, inhumanly steady while it sets.

Better for dealing with plugs is reef putty: comes in a cylinder, green outside of a stick, white inside, smells awful: knead a piece until uniform in color, then stick it into the rock where you want it to hold, stick the plug into it while soft, and it will form a socket that will hold your frag.

Other people use a pocket knife to pop the frag free of the plug, glue it to a dry bit of rubble, then place the much more 'grippy' piece of rock into the reef with a bit of putty on the underside.

Superglue is better for gluing coral to rock than for making plugs stick to rockwork.