reef epoxy!!! toxic?

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tat2tillidie

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i just used some aquascape epoxy last night to help hold down some corals and rocks that my very large turbo snail keeps knocking down!!!! but today most of my corals are sucked in and some mushrooms have that brown jelly infection again....
my ? is can it be because of the epoxy.
did i use it wrong?
i just used an equal amount of each and kneeded them for 5 min like it says and them i put it on the rocks them i ut the rocks or corals that i wanted to stay on the epoxy and a lil bit of the epoxy seemed to disolve everytime i touched it i could see it mist a purple dust cloud.


any suggestions on what to do?
maybe a water change?

and my baby gonipora came detached from the mother last night and i glued it to the rock next to the mother.
was that the rite thing to do?
 
i always run carbon and 3 other pads in my wet/dry...
but i will put extra in there now.

did everything survive?

i just thought that was wierd cuse i was having an issue with the brown jelly infection and i thought it was over but then after i did that last night this morning 2 different rocks have it on there... the rocks have green mushrooms on them

my kennya tree and finger leather are drooping bad!!
 
The only thing I lost was a kenya tree that was about two days new in my tank. Everything else made it. Good luck, hope it all pulls through.
 
Epoxy isn't toxic itself I don't believe, but it releases something when it cures. If you read any of the articles where they tank about using epoxy to mount hard corals you have cut up, they say to put the coral in a little container of tank water for a couple minutes and then pull the coral out and dump the water. A little bit of extra carbon,(just replacing what carbon you have), watch your skimmer cup,(curing epoxy often effects the amount of skimmage), and perhaps do a water change.

As always don't do too much at a time. Corals are strong and they should come back.

Jon
 
i have never liked that putty. never seemed to hold for me. so i just use dollar store super glue gel. put a gob on the coral you want to fasten, and push it onto the rock. one slight wiggle to get the glue on the rock, then hold a bit, 30 seconds, or till it stands on its own. it cures under water too.

that jelly stuff sounds like cyano i had in my frag tank. i tweaked up the bio filtration and flow and now its gone. got lots of bio balls? you still need to convert waste thru the ammonia/nitrite/nitrate cycle as fast as possible. if you dont have enough bio media, it lingers in the water and feeds cyano. or that seems to be what happened to me. i just put a basket of red lava rack under the return overflows in the sump. works like bio balls. and a bigger pump with overflow.
 
I had the same problem as Ken. The putty I cured in the tank didn't hold very well but it didn't cause any problems in the tank. I cured some out of the tank and then glued frags to them. This worked really well.
 
The only time I have used the epoxy is to hold pieces of liverock together. I haven't tried to hold frags down with it. It did set up real well on the rock. When I switched my tanks up, I had a piece that was about 45 lbs. Kinda hard to maneuver. But it wouldn't come apart. Set like concrete.
 
Re: reef epoxy!!! toxic?

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i just used some aquascape epoxy last night to help hold down some corals and rocks that my very large turbo snail keeps knocking down!!!! but today most of my corals are sucked in and some mushrooms have that brown jelly infection again....
my ? is can it be because of the epoxy.
did i use it wrong?
i just used an equal amount of each and kneeded them for 5 min like it says and them i put it on the rocks them i ut the rocks or corals that i wanted to stay on the epoxy and a lil bit of the epoxy seemed to disolve everytime i touched it i could see it mist a purple dust cloud.


any suggestions on what to do?
maybe a water change?

and my baby gonipora came detached from the mother last night and i glued it to the rock next to the mother.
was that the rite thing to do?
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man i had one of those large turbo snails i gave it away thing kept knocking everything over
 
man *** both of my cleaner shrimp died!!! and now all of my corals but like 5 are sucked in and a few look dead. could it be the epoxy? i havent did anything to the tank lately so why is this happening? and i just found a few dead hermits
 
how much epoxy did you use at once??
I have used nickle size blobs one at a time and havent had problems... sorry to hear about the crash!
 
Keep doing water changes if the epoxy is not dry yet pull what you can.. By "reefsafe epoxy", what is the brand and where did you get it?
Also it may not be the epoxy. When I had my first saltwater tank in 1990 I did something real stupid. I washed my hands before I played it the tank. Either something was on my hands that I didn't get off or there was still soap on my hands and I lost all the fish.
Are the fish showing any ill signs? Maybe you could make 3 tubs/buckets of fresh saltwater and use one to wash your corals 1 to put the corals in, and 1 to put the fish in the other till you get the tank settled down.

I would pull any remaining putty if its not hard already.
 
i did a 10g waterchange last night and i put my bio balls back in.
its called aquascape construction epoxy. it says reef safe on the website but not on box. i got it from champion lighting
 
I'd pull that off, do some searches, for a reef tank wet drys cause more problems then there worth. There Nitrate factories.
erik
 
well i didnt have any bioballs in there till ken said to put them in there again. i stay on top of cleaning the sponges and the skimmer and i do regular water changes and i was going to add a light and some chaeto in the sump
 
Honestly your best bet would be to slowly remove the balls, and go with a fudge.
Wet drys work well for fish only because the fish can handle some nitrates, corals don't tend to do well with nitrates.
Good luck
Erik
 
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