[Coral-List] Planting of propagated coral fragments
Tom Moore
Tom.Moore at noaa.gov
Thu May 4 15:31:16 EDT 2006
Andrew,
If you are going to use wire I would suggest Monel, it is a little bit
more expensive then stainless but found that it works much better in
seawater, as stainless is subject to micro-pitting.
--Tom
Tom Moore
NOAA Restoration Center
St. Petersburg, Florida
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> Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 08:23:27 -0700 (PDT)
> From: andrew ross <andyroo_of72 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [Coral-List] Planting of propagated coral fragments
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> List,
>
> I'm hoping to begin replanting of propagated A. cervicornis material
> in June/July in Montego Bay: racing the storm season.
>
> Any suggestions on methods?
>
> I am planning to break up the propagated material into 5-10cm segments
> and wire them to masonry nails hammered into urchin grazed, clean reef.
>
> Wire will be a vinyl coated copper (i'm having good success, it's
> cheap, colour coded and easy to work with) but i'm interested in
> suggestions on types of nail: galvanized is probably bad (?) I'm
> expecting partial attachment to the reef within 2-3 weeks and overgrowth
> of the nail within 5-7 weeks. Will nail rusting inhibit overgrowth?
>
> Are there other suggestions in reef attachment?
> I've looked at simple spreading, string anchoring, epoxy, concrete,
> drilling-and-sticking and some more. Nails seem most secure in the
> short-term.
>
> Andrew Ross
>
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