New to corals... Couple of newb questions

New to corals... I have bought a couple of frags: a Duncan and a Zoo frag.

Right now they are both just chillin in the sand bed to get acclimated to the light and all that.

1) How long should I wait before I move them to some of the live rock?

2) Also, when I move them should I try to take them off of the small plugs they are currently on? Or just attach the plugs directly to the live rock?

The zoo frag is on a disk that seems easy enough to attach to rock but the duncan is on a weird nipple shaped piece that seems like it would be harder to attach in an attractive way.

Peace!

-AJ

 

How long they should just "chill" in the sand bed depends on how intense your light is compared to the light it was under. If it was pretty comparable a few days should be more than fine. As far as the plug, some people leave them on, some take them off. Thats up to you, there isn't a right or wrong way to do it. Just be careful when/if you remove the piece.

Happy reefing

 

Cool... thanks for the info.

Sounds like it's safer to leave them on the plugs... at least until I get a bit more familiar with the whole process.

If I did remove them from the plugs, how do you go about attaching them to the LR?

 

As far as the light, my lfs keeps their corals under T5 lighting so when I bought one i never needed to light acclimate it. As for the plugs Dr. Fragenstein is right, there's no right or wrong way to do it. Sometimes the "nipple" looking ones are easier to place because you can place the nipple part into a hole or crevice in the rock. You may also want to use an epoxy to glue the frags down. I've had problems before where snails or hermit crabs would knock over the frag.

 

I'm currently debating the same thing with a piece of leather I just picked up last week. The plug is unattractive and doesn't really fit into any hole or crevice that I have at all, and won't glue in. I think I'll have to remove the leather from the frag and use some new epoxy.