Getting monti cap to grow on glass?

[Osiris]

Not sure if I've seen it and just didnt know it. But was thinking if one can superglue a frag of monti cap to glass? like drain the tank down dry the glass where want it and put it on and put water back in tank?

[leveldrummer]

hmmm. i doubt the glue would hold, you can try using a frag mag, and get it to attach, not sure how well it would hold though, if something bumped it, or it got too large, it would probably just pop right off.

[Bear]

Level Drummer is right, glass is too smooth of a surface. But, If you are careful then you could sand the part of the glass where you want to glue it to. This will give the glue much more surface area to attach to and the bond will not only take, but will be pretty strong. There is a good probability that the cap will grow too large to be held up by the glue. It could work if the cap had a heavier spiral where it met the glass so that there was a substantial amount of cap holding onto the glass. To make this work the best you would have to sand everywhere you think the monti cap could grow and connect to the glass.

You can change the way a coral grows by changing the direction of flow, but I am not sure how to change it to affect montipora.

I say its possible and would be really cool, but could prove to be quite the feat.

[leveldrummer]

frag mag...