Underwater glue?

[maddsquabbles]

What is the best underwater glue out there?

 

[kraze3]

For frags I use superglue gel

If your trying to glue rocks use some sort of epoxy or zip ties.

 

[IslandCrow]

What's the application?

 

[haydenp]

huge fan of super glue and the accelerator stuff. Makes the glue dry in about 2 seconds. Much nicer than holding wet gooey frags while the glue seeps all over your fingers before drying...

 

[maddsquabbles]

Is there a glue that cures underwater that is reef safe? I have a mushroom and half of the base became un-connected.

 

[heap]

i suppose it'd be possible, but i'm guessing it'd be kinda like trying to staple a booger to the wall. if half of the foot is still connected to rock, i'd just leave it be.

 

[haydenp]

LOL.. nice description.

I'd leave it, those things seem to detach themselves and roll around till they fond somewhere they like for no good reason.

 

[maddsquabbles]

I use super glue gel, but this coral is on a rock that I can't take out of the the tank to glue. Will super glue gel cure underwater?

 

[maddsquabbles]

My posts are hitting kinda late. Thanks for the info.

 

[djcoralife]

super glue gel works great for frags

 

[Jova]

Whatever you do, don't waste your money on those green sticks of epoxy that you'll see at fish stores. I bought a tube of that a while back, and it is absolutely worthless.

 

[fred fishstone]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14728448#post14728448 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Jova
Whatever you do, don't waste your money on those green sticks of epoxy that you'll see at fish stores. I bought a tube of that a while back, and it is absolutely worthless.

...unless you use it in combination with some superglue gel. A drop or two on the coral side and on the rock side of the epoxy, and it'll hold great!

 

[freddy4130]

^^In other words, that stuff is useless. LOL.

 

[IslandCrow]

maddsquabbles, for your particular application, glue will not work. The first problem is that although superglue will set under water, actually dispensing it underwater is difficult at best. Contact with water will greatly speed up the setting process, and you're probably just going to end up with superglue stuck in the tube. Second, superglue is not very effective on mushroom corals. Heap's description of stapling a bugger to a wall is probably a good one. Mushrooms have a slime layer that is going to prevent the glue from taking hold.

About the only reliable way to attach a mushroom is to use something to physically hold it in place while it attaches naturally (like a rubber band). Of course, if your mushroom is detaching, it sounds like there's something else going on, and you very well may not be able to get it to reattach.

 

[freddy4130]

Most of the time, if it is detaching, it does not want to be in the place you have it and it SHOULD be moved.