JB Water Weld reef safe?

[alten78]

Good afternoon all. Anybody out there using JB Water Weld to mount frags? I thought that I had read several places that it was reef safe. I typically just glue things with Loctite super glue gel, but I picked up a stick of JB's last week and moved a few things up in the tank where glue just wasn't enough.

Immediately my skimmer started going nuts so I turned that off for the day and did a 10%water change. Noticed the next day im getting very little PE from everything, skimmer still going nuts. Took a day to get the next batch of water for a change, started running carbon, did another water change this morning. Came home today and I still see very little PE and a few acros starting to bleach but at least the skimmer has settled down.

Everything was doing very well until I used the epoxy, im loading up to do another water change by tonight or tomorrow morning. Thoughts?

 

[rovster]

I've used it many times without issues, other than the skimmer going bananas for a few hours.

 

[alten78]

forgot to mention that I just tested water -

sg 1.026
ca 480
alk 7.5
nitrate and phosphate register 0's on my api tests but I know very well that this isn't the case.

 

[alten78]

I've used it many times without issues, other than the skimmer going bananas for a few hours.

That's what I thought and remember as well, the skimmer went crazy for about 2 days. thanks, ill look deeper here.