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coral plugs
Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2003 11:27 pm
by reeferpuffer
well i got tired of paying alot of monet for screens to use as plugs so i was walking in home depot and noticed small water feed lined in the plumbing section..then i started thinking...(you know how that hurts ) and so i bought one. they come in one 4ft section for 2 bux. cant beat that...i came home and smushed 2 part epoxy on the top to make a platform for the coral to attatch itself, then the plug can easliy fit into a nook, or hole in live rock and the coral will grow over the plug and onto the rock..am i genius or crazy?..you tell me...here are some pics
Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2003 10:57 am
by Melissakins
Brandon wrote:I'm all for that electric fence! Maybe I could chain a watch-trigger to the sps area to keep the inverts away.
I think I am going to go with the sprinkler plugs, and try and find some black eggcrate.
Anyone seen Black Eggcrate at any of the local lighting places? I'll just position on the far end in a corner of the aquarium. Shouldn't look too bad. The propagation part is the most interesting part of this to me.. so it'll just have to be
Going to order 100 of these if anyone needs any.
Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2003 11:10 am
by Brandon
Yup.. I STILL forgot to bring those things to the meeting.
Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2003 7:15 pm
by reeferpuffer
the ones i made are actually pretty convienant.. i prolly will grab maybe a couple to see how well they work..but im satisfied at my DIY attempy
Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2003 7:31 pm
by Xster
Brandon wrote:Yup.. I STILL forgot to bring those things to the meeting.
I want some too......
Re: coral plugs
Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2003 11:37 pm
by SaltnLime
reeferpuffer wrote:well i got tired of paying alot of monet for screens to use as plugs so i was walking in home depot and noticed small water feed lined in the plumbing section..then i started thinking...(you know how that hurts ) and so i bought one. they come in one 4ft section for 2 bux. cant beat that...i came home and smushed 2 part epoxy on the top to make a platform for the coral to attatch itself, then the plug can easliy fit into a nook, or hole in live rock and the coral will grow over the plug and onto the rock..am i genius or crazy?..you tell me...here are some pics
I thought you were going to use those thread spool things. I though that was a pretty good idea and the perfect side too...cutting them in half makes 2 .
Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2003 1:30 am
by reeferpuffer
yeah well i had a couple bucks while i was breaking stuff in Home Depot..so i saidh heh...why not...i think theyre neatoh and those thead spool caught to much air in the holes and stuff, they kept trying to float