Mits

I just upgraded to a bigger tank over the summer, and when looking into building my new aquascape Marc had mentioned that I should look up "pegging" and sent me a link. In a nutshell, you drill small holes all over your rock and mount your frags on rigid airline tubing pieces about an inch long. Drop the frag in one of your rock holes, and you're done. You can easily move them around all you want until they encrust over the connection. I decided to give this a try and loved the flexibility it provided me, along with the fact that I could move a coral if it didn't respond well to the light and flow in it's location. I've been able to avoid having them knocked over by snails, fish or even my hands. This is all great, but not why I felt the need to make this post. I have an RBTA for my clowns in there, and tried to build an area just for it. Of course, being an anemone, it left that area the first night. It tried other places for a bit, like on my frogspawn, toward the back of the tank, or in a cave. None of these have been acceptable, so where does it go and decide to call home for a while? That's right, it went right to the middle of the area where I have 3 chalice frags and 2 acans! Luckily, since my frags were pegged, all I had to do was pull them out and throw them right into another hole on rocks further away. They had minimal damage from the stings, but will recover just fine. Without the pegging, I'd have probably tried to break the glue connection and attempted to re-glue somewhere else. That or the stung frags would've also been knocked into the sandbed face first or between rocks in a pile. So if any of you are putting together a new tank, do yourself a favor and look up "pegging" for a moment. You may find something that makes caring for your tank so much easier. Thanks again, Marc!