Super Glue Gel? (1 Viewer)

[Guest]

I've heard Super Glue Gel is OK to use for putting frags on LR. Anyone else second this?

(No Disrespect J.)

Regards,
Ken

 

[FireEater]

Yepper, it great to use.

Also for the larger frags/corals you can use the two part epoxy mix from Lowes. It comes in a roll and you slice off just enough for what you need. Mix it together and epoxy down what you want.

 

[Guest]

No toxins? Curing? Etc?

 

[FireEater]

Nope, all you do with super glue is pic a place to glue the frag. Then pat dry the frag part you will be applying the glue to. Also kinda toothbrush the place you will be glueing the frag to in the tank. Squeeze a glob on and place in tank where you picked out.

If you are glueing to a piece of rubble, dry it off also. Glue on and hold together in tank until glue sets.

Make sure you do not glue your fingers to the frag! It takes practice.

With the epoxy, I just clean the area with a toothbrush, mix the epoxy, and epoxy the things I want. This takes practice also. There are so many ways to do it and so many things you can epoxy, from frags, coral, rock, ect...

I have been using both for years with no adverse effects. I epoxy my rock work together, frags down, corals down, I make frag plugs with it and so on. After a while it all gets encrusted or corallined over.

 

[Melodyepta]

I have used Super Glue gel for hard frags. But I've had softies just slime away with it. Otherwise great stuff!

 

[Guest]

Yep, I use super glue all the time with HARD corals. I tried it with mushrooms and soft corals but they always detach several days later.

I take a rock and dry it as well as I can, take the frag and dry the end a little and put a dab of super glue on both and stick them together. If they are large and will move under their own weight, I hold them and blow on the glue to set them.

I usually leave them out of the water until the glue skins or until it holds the coral in the position I want. Then I just place in thank.

I have heard of folks just gluing and placing right in the tank but I don't know how that works.
God bless,
Jonny

 

[Guest]

All I do is pull the rock out put gel glue on frag stick it to the rock wait 5 seconds & place it in the water. So far as worked everytime.

 

[Guest]

If you use the two part epoxy on sps, you might get a small amount of bleaching on the part near the epoxy. As the epoxy cures, it heats up and it may effect some sensitive hard coral. Less is likely to happen with the gel glue, but sometimes the two part epoxy is needed because of the weight of the coral. Just FYI
Cheryl

 

[Guest]

Anyone got a favorite glue brand?

 

[Guest]

I got the stuff at krogers in the large hard bottle. Im not sure what brand it is but its easy to use and works great!

 

[toan]

newbie question:

are you guys gluing the coral to the rock?

and also, if i mounted some frags to little pieces of rock, could i glue the rock , to a bigger rock in my main tank that way it'll stay there forever?

 

[Guest]

I have also used super glue gel, but I can't ever get it to stick. Seems like when it dries and turns white it comes apart in the tank.
I have tried drying both rock pieces and then glueing but I still can't get it to stay.

I am obvioulsy doing something wrong.