How to Attach Toadstool Coral to Rock

Toadstool mushroom leather coral is a tropical soft coral that can be found in varying shades of brown, green or green. It has gold or white polyps and develops a folded appearance when it matures. Toadstool corals are readily available from retail and online aquarium stores and always come already attached to a small rock. However, for it to thrive in your aquarium, you will have to properly secure it to another rock or to the floor of your aquarium, as it may get knocked over by moving crabs or snails.

Things You'll Need

  • Toadstool coral
  • Aquarium system
  • Aqua gloves
  • Underwater glue
  • Underwater putty
  • Razor blade
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Instructions

    • 1

      Test out your coral's reaction to your aquarium before permanently attaching it to a rock. Using your aqua gloves, pick the coral up and try to wedge it into place between two rocks in your aquarium and let it be for a few days. If the coral displays its full coloration and extends itself, then it has adjusted well to its new surroundings. You can now prepare to attach it permanently to a larger rock or to an existing rock formation in your aquarium.

    • 2

      Decide where you wish to attach the coral on the rock. Set aside a small amount of underwater putty. Then put some of the underwater instant glue onto the spot in the rock where you wish to attach the coral. Attach the set-aside putty to the rock with the underwater glue.

    • 3

      Put on your aqua gloves. Cut the coral near the foot to remove the small rock that it came with. Make sure the coral's polyps are retracted before you cut it. Cut with a sterile razor blade to help prevent infections.

    • 4

      Add more of the underwater instant glue to the spot where you placed the putty on the rock. Now attach the coral to the putty and seal it with more of the glue. This must be quickly because the instant glue will start to harden within a few seconds of exposure. The toadstool should now be stuck fast onto the new rock, via the putty and instant glue.

    • 5

      Put your coral and the rock to which it is attached into its desired location in your aquarium. For the first week, keep it near the bottom of the tank where there is less light and less flow.