Super gluing a piece of rock

[allendehl]

I've read the many coral experts prefer regular super glue to any of the fancy, more expensive stuff....would this one work?...is it reef safe?

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003Y49R7G/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1

Also, can someone quickly describe the process? I bought a little piece of rock with some zoas on it and it keeps being knocked over by my urchin, crab and everyone else.
If I place the glue in the rock...wouldn't it dissolve into the water before it cures?

Thanks!

 

[der_wille_zur_macht]

That'll work. Any brand of thick gel will work.

Process is simple. Get the rock out of the water, squeeze on a (bigger than you think) glob of glue, put it where you want it in the tank, give it a wiggle, and hold it in place for a good 30 seconds.

 

[allendehl]

That'll work. Any brand of thick gel will work.

Process is simple. Get the rock out of the water, squeeze on a (bigger than you think) glob of glue, put it where you want it in the tank, give it a wiggle, and hold it in place for a good 30 seconds.

Thank you!

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[billdogg]

That'll work. Any brand of thick gel will work.

Process is simple. Get the rock out of the water, squeeze on a (bigger than you think) glob of glue, put it where you want it in the tank, give it a wiggle, and hold it in place for a good 30 seconds.

^^^This^^^

I would add that a pair of disposable glove will make getting your fingers unstuck a much simpler process. It would seem that I cannot do this without getting at least some on me!

 

[der_wille_zur_macht]

I hate the feel of working with gloves, but that's a good idea. I also hate the feeling of peeling skin off my fingers when they inevitably get glue on them. You think you'd get better at this after a few decades but I still get glue on my fingers routinely.

 

[allendehl]

After reading what zoas can do to people...I'll take the gloves!

 

[Uncle99]

While you can glue right to a rock, if you put a small amount of expoxy, push the frag into the expoxy, then a bubble of glue and back on, it holds fast and true...

 

[Smokey Stover]

Yes, use the gel, I learned the hard way. Used a rather large amount of regular (thin) Super Glue. on a frag plug. When it broke the surface of the water it floated like an oil slick, My hand went in a little further, Saw the slick, Pulled my hand and the frag out, which coated the (hairy) back of my hand, Fingers, and the frag with a film that stuck like, Well....Super Glue lol.

 

[sde1500]

I hate the feel of working with gloves, but that's a good idea. I also hate the feeling of peeling skin off my fingers when they inevitably get glue on them. You think you'd get better at this after a few decades but I still get glue on my fingers routinely.

I'm right there with you. I like feeling things with my fingers, hate gloves numbing that feeling. Even if it is the feeling of grabbing a bristle worm while removing algae from the tank. Or yes, completely coating finger tips in super glue. Crazy how messy it can get, totally ruined a frag the other day, ended up super gluing a zoa polyp to my finger instead of the rock...

 

[billdogg]

Perhaps because I wear gloves every day at work (I work in a OR), they don't bother me at all. Or at least not as much as peeling my skin off......

 

[allendehl]

Yes, use the gel, I learned the hard way. Used a rather large amount of regular (thin) Super Glue. on a frag plug. When it broke the surface of the water it floated like an oil slick, My hand went in a little further, Saw the slick, Pulled my hand and the frag out, which coated the (hairy) back of my hand, Fingers, and the frag with a film that stuck like, Well....Super Glue lol.

ouch!

 

[jamie1981]

That tiny loctite tube is actually a lot more expensive than the reef glue. A 2oz bottle of reef glue gel on amazon is about $15 That bottle you linked to is .14 oz

So you'd be paying a good $59 for the same amount of glue!!!

 

[allendehl]

That tiny loctite tube is actually a lot more expensive than the reef glue. A 2oz bottle of reef glue gel on amazon is about $15 That bottle you linked to is .14 oz

So you'd be paying a good $59 for the same amount of glue!!!

Lol good point . Doesn't it gets hard like every super glue I buy?
I really don't need that much so it'll sit there for a while between uses.

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[RussC]

BRS offers a good video on attaching corals with a variety of different things. The video is part of a 52 week series on their 160 build. I think this is it...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edJ8Lorgxi8

 

[der_wille_zur_macht]

Lol good point . Doesn't it gets hard like every super glue I buy?
I really don't need that much so it'll sit there for a while between uses.

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Keep the tip clean and clear, and store it in the fridge, and it'll last a good year or two.