Aquascaping/GSM's/Dead Duncan?

[marineang]

Couple things:

Do most here adhere their frags to rocks in the tank?
Every day I wake up to frags fallen over and being disturbed by hermits

When you re-aquascape, do you ever remove the fish? I know it's extra stress on them but my female gsm attacks my hands pretty badly and if I wear my aqua gloves I got, they are too big and I can't get a grip on anything but I don't feel her attacks on my hand that way

I want to dig into my 29 tomorrow to re-aqua scape... I need to pick up the frags that have been knocked behind, start grabbing some of my tulip anemone's that are now not only on the rocks but the glass too.. and my rbta had split a couple times so I need to grab one of them. I really want to bring every piece of rock up and wondered if you guys thought it would be positive or negative to remove the fish while I do so?

One final thing... I bought 2 duncans recently, each was fresh cut. One opened immediately when I put it under the light, the 2nd one still hasn't opened a week later. I'm wondering if it's dead?

Thanks, sorry for so many topics - but TIA for your help!

 

[afboundguy]

Do most here adhere their frags to rocks in the tank?
Every day I wake up to frags fallen over and being disturbed by hermits

I use mainly gel superglue. For bigger stuff I use aquarium epoxy and superglue...

When you re-aquascape, do you ever remove the fish? I know it's extra stress on them but my female gsm attacks my hands pretty badly and if I wear my aqua gloves I got, they are too big and I can't get a grip on anything but I don't feel her attacks on my hand that way

I never have and haven't lost a fish yet when I've re-scaped my tank and I used to do it a lot when I was out of work after my accident...

One final thing... I bought 2 duncans recently, each was fresh cut. One opened immediately when I put it under the light, the 2nd one still hasn't opened a week later. I'm wondering if it's dead?

Not sure but my sun corals sometimes don't open up for a week but are fine the next... If the CUC is starting to pick at it then it's def dead...