Reef Balls & Reef Cakes
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leahski
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hey, those look great! it'll be neat to watch them grow out.
btw, did you let the individual polyps attach to substrate before you glued them to the ball? or how did you do it?
when you first razor blade them off of the rock, aren't they covered in mucus that doesn't glue well?
beautiful work as always, allen!
btw, did you let the individual polyps attach to substrate before you glued them to the ball? or how did you do it?
when you first razor blade them off of the rock, aren't they covered in mucus that doesn't glue well?
beautiful work as always, allen!
Individual ones were glued immediately after removing from the mother colony. Yeah they are slimey but I have a paper towel on hand and here's how I do it..
Dab dry spot on Reef Ball, cut polyp from colony, dab base dry, apply glue to dry spot on Reef Ball (fairly large gob of glue) and gently press polyp into glue gob. I have about a 90% success rate with this technique. It's not perfect but I get good results. You just have to work quick as I have found once cut the polyp needs to be back in the water fairly quickly. The few that I "lagged" with didn't survive. Not sure why but that's my "observation".
Thanks Tori for looking and commenting
Dab dry spot on Reef Ball, cut polyp from colony, dab base dry, apply glue to dry spot on Reef Ball (fairly large gob of glue) and gently press polyp into glue gob. I have about a 90% success rate with this technique. It's not perfect but I get good results. You just have to work quick as I have found once cut the polyp needs to be back in the water fairly quickly. The few that I "lagged" with didn't survive. Not sure why but that's my "observation".
Thanks Tori for looking and commenting
I lost the orange ones due to a snail not leaving them alone. Maybe I didn't have them glued enough but I was able to harvest them and now they are "Dropping Babies" in my 10g Frag Tank.
I need to get some updated pics. I'm slacking a LOT! the Reef balls have all become covered with "tank stuff" and now look just like Live Rock but in a COOLER way! I keep meaning to do a GSP reef Ball (How cool would that be?) but every time I Get ready to I end up selling the reef ball and have to order a replacement. Not that I think that's a BAD thing but makes it hard to do "projects" when I keep selling my own reefballs out from under myself
I need to get some updated pics. I'm slacking a LOT! the Reef balls have all become covered with "tank stuff" and now look just like Live Rock but in a COOLER way! I keep meaning to do a GSP reef Ball (How cool would that be?) but every time I Get ready to I end up selling the reef ball and have to order a replacement. Not that I think that's a BAD thing but makes it hard to do "projects" when I keep selling my own reefballs out from under myself
Ok here is something sort of "On Topic" to this thread. As many of you know... Reef Balls are used out in the oceans to help re-establish damaged/destroyed reefs. The Reef Balls I talk about here are small models of the real thing. Well I found these pics from a past Reef Ball Restoration project presentation. I picked some of the slides and made them into a file that can be viewed over the web.
It's nothing fancy but it's really cool seeing how some of the things we do in our tanks have been applied to Real World scenarios! All you "Fraggers" out there look at this and see if anything looks familiar to you
It's nothing fancy but it's really cool seeing how some of the things we do in our tanks have been applied to Real World scenarios! All you "Fraggers" out there look at this and see if anything looks familiar to you
lcstorc
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That is so wrong in so many ways.
I'll have to show that to my stepkids. (The youngest are 16 not little kids.)