Glue for corals
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Topic: Glue for corals
Posted By: Molli
Subject: Glue for corals
Date Posted: August 20 2012 at 10:02am
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What is your preferred glue to attach corals underwater to live rock? |
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Posted By: saltyjarhead
Date Posted: August 20 2012 at 10:05am
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I think just about everyone's place I have been to has used the $.99 super glue gel that you get at the dollar store. ------------- Semper Fi You can live for many causes, but you can only die for one. Pick that one very carfully. Josh Giles |
Posted By: Jeremyw
Date Posted: August 20 2012 at 10:17am
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Thats what I use..... .99 super glue! Works great! ------------- Next meeting: |
Posted By: ajsahm
Date Posted: August 20 2012 at 10:22am
so it works wet? and you can put it on the rock when the rock when it is in the water? Yes I am so very new at this. 
------------- 75g - In the process of building |
Posted By: Jeffatpm
Date Posted: August 20 2012 at 1:07pm
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I buy the more expensive stuff from the grocery or hardware store, the gel stuff, I like the consistency better.
What happens is you put it on a rock and put the coral in it, when you dip it in the water it makes it set quickly.
The other reason i don't like the liquid and always glue corals in a bowl of tank water outside the tank, I've seen other people have suber glue bubbles end up floating around the tank and fish eat them thinking they are food - resulting in death! I've almost had this happen to me and it's scary when your fish come running thinking it's food. ------------- 210 Reef with loads of LEDS Large Fishey Room Located Near Jordan Landing in West Jordan. |
Posted By: Nails12
Date Posted: August 20 2012 at 1:45pm
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Yes, if you are to buy the super glue at the dollar store, buy the gel kind it works much better. ------------- This is more than a hobby; its a lifestyle. |
Posted By: ajsahm
Date Posted: August 26 2012 at 2:10pm
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Very cool thanks for the tip! ------------- 75g - In the process of building |
Posted By: knowen87
Date Posted: August 26 2012 at 5:28pm
| I use Ecotec's glue it is expensive but really is just a huge bottle of superglue. I figure that it is just about the same price as super glue, you just pay it all upfront instead for all the little tubes you would use. Anyway. If you are just doing a frag or two I would use the super glue, but if you ar planning on doing alot. you should get some from ecotec. |
Posted By: Akira
Date Posted: September 06 2012 at 1:14am
| I have tried many types of glue and the dollar store super glue gel u get 2 for a buck works great. A lil on the frag then attach , remove it and add another drop, sets it off almost like a catalist and it sticks great . You will see it kinda haze over when you pull it apart thats when I add a second drop and it then sets up fast. Oh and NEVER do this above your tank!!!!! I did and a drop hit my water and my yellow tang thought it was food and took it !!!! I was lucky and was able to catch him and remove it and no damage but a hard lesson learned. |
Posted By: ReefdUp
Date Posted: September 06 2012 at 6:27am
| Yup...super glue gel from the dollar store. It's cyanoacrylate, which cures with moisture (tank water) through an exothermic reaction (produces heat), so you'll need to get the coral in water flow quickly or the coral could be burnt. |