Hi everybody,
I've been a long time lurker to this forum, and have signed up because I have a question about rubber banding a sinularia.
I bought this a couple of weeks ago, and it seemed to be going fine, it didn't really having any rock attached to it, but it had a harder rocky like “root” area, I have been trying to get it to attach to the live rock by just putting it in crevices, and it was fine, but it kept falling over after a few days. I finally got sick and tired of it falling over and spending ages trying to try and find a sturdy crevice to put it in, only to have it fall over again after a few days, so I attached it to a piece of rubble with a hairband (didn't have any rubber bands at the time). The hairband is around the harder rocky like "root" of the coral and the coral is attached on the side, part of the fleshy part is up against the hair banded rubble, and on the other side it is close to some live rock. Pictures are attached. The coral isn't fully opened in the picture because it has just been handled a few hours ago.
My question is, will this be enough for the coral to attach to the live rock permanently, and will it attach from the side fleshy bit, and/or the harder rocky "root" part? I don't have any experience in rubber banding before, so would be interested in anyone's opinion who has more knowledge than me. I don't really want to move it around too much and stress it, but if what I'm doing now isn't going to work I'd like a plan to move again and solve the problem for good. It seems fairly happy there at the moment as it is opening up fairly quickly, and I'm pretty confident it shouldn't fall from there, I'm just more interested in everybody's opinion as to if it will attach to the rock work in this position. Obviously my plan is to remove the hairband when it is firmly attached. I've tried glueing coral before with not great results, sooner or later is always seems to fall off. I also lost a sinilaria before that kept falling over, so I rubber banded it to avoid the same thing happening again.
Thanks in advance!
I've been a long time lurker to this forum, and have signed up because I have a question about rubber banding a sinularia.
I bought this a couple of weeks ago, and it seemed to be going fine, it didn't really having any rock attached to it, but it had a harder rocky like “root” area, I have been trying to get it to attach to the live rock by just putting it in crevices, and it was fine, but it kept falling over after a few days. I finally got sick and tired of it falling over and spending ages trying to try and find a sturdy crevice to put it in, only to have it fall over again after a few days, so I attached it to a piece of rubble with a hairband (didn't have any rubber bands at the time). The hairband is around the harder rocky like "root" of the coral and the coral is attached on the side, part of the fleshy part is up against the hair banded rubble, and on the other side it is close to some live rock. Pictures are attached. The coral isn't fully opened in the picture because it has just been handled a few hours ago.
My question is, will this be enough for the coral to attach to the live rock permanently, and will it attach from the side fleshy bit, and/or the harder rocky "root" part? I don't have any experience in rubber banding before, so would be interested in anyone's opinion who has more knowledge than me. I don't really want to move it around too much and stress it, but if what I'm doing now isn't going to work I'd like a plan to move again and solve the problem for good. It seems fairly happy there at the moment as it is opening up fairly quickly, and I'm pretty confident it shouldn't fall from there, I'm just more interested in everybody's opinion as to if it will attach to the rock work in this position. Obviously my plan is to remove the hairband when it is firmly attached. I've tried glueing coral before with not great results, sooner or later is always seems to fall off. I also lost a sinilaria before that kept falling over, so I rubber banded it to avoid the same thing happening again.
Thanks in advance!