frag plugs

[biodarwin]

I got my frags on little plugs. I just got a chisel and a hammer to break up some rock for a rubble pile. Can I use them to just knock off the "plug" part and just glue the disk to a rock? Should I glue the frag to a broken off piece of LR instead of the LR in my tank so it would be easier to pull out and frag.

 

[dustin_P74]

what i do is leave the frags on the disks and cut the little stand off of it

 

[XxKnuckleheadxX]

i prefer to glue them directly onto a little piece of rock. looks cleaner and easier to wedge into another rock so crabs or anything else wont knock it down.

 

[dustin_P74]

you can glue the plug to the rock and once its grown over it youll never know

 

[Bifferwine]

The plug quickly gets covered in coralline and blends into the rock if you leave it be. I've never bothered to remove corals from plugs -- the risk of damaging them in the process or losing them as "floaters" in the tank doesn't seem worth it to me.

 

[biodarwin]

I might have mis-phrased what I was trying to say. I dont want to remove the coral from the plug, just want to remove the stem of the plug from the disc so that it is just a "waffer" to glue on the rocks. I tried to use a chisel and a hammer, but the stem doesn't come off close to the disc of the plug. On an upnote I have a reason to buy a new dremel tool :)

 

[Bifferwine]

Or a heavy pair of utility scissors?

 

[dustin_P74]

surgical bone cutters

 

[biodarwin]

You guys are killing my ability to buy power tools here :) The scissors will probably work, my wife wants to get me a fragging kit for my b-day anyways :)

 

[yote]

Tell your wife that the dremel needs to be part of the frag kit.:D

 

[dustin_P74]

Tell your wife that the dremel needs to be part of the frag kit.:D

in a way, it really does