Gorgonian Placement Q?

[pat_man_ta]

Where should I place my yellow gorgonian in my 5.5?

 

It is a 2" frag that looks to have broken away some time ago but never been oriented or planded or attached anywhere so the foot, well ehere one would expect a foot, has a polyp obstructing it. At the moment i have it in an area in a large open cave getting good flow and lower light, on the sand bed. I would like to have it upright but I don't know how to deal with it.

 

Should I:

-Plant it upright in the sandbed by burying its "foot"?

 

-leave it just sitting in there?

 

-Glue it to some LR?

 

Then place it:

 

-Toward the back of the tank (a little less light)

 

-In a cave

 

-In or on the rockwork?

[petes]

http://www.garf.org/GORG03/WINTERGORG.html

http://www.garf.org/100/gorg/GORG1.html

[pat_man_ta]

THANKS!!!

[mosquared]

I have some "frags" too. You should use glue as a last resort. if you can just place it in a hole of the rock without much problem- just stick it in there and it will soon gorw on to rock. But if thats not possible, try rubble banding it to a rock, and it will also grow on to the rock.