Coral glue

viper1972 · Apr 14, 2010

Is there a glue that you can put on one coral and then put it in the water and stick it to a rock and they will bind together? I have tried super glue gel but it does not last long. I want to stick some ricordea with rubble to bigger rocks that can not be taken out of the tank.

Troylee · Apr 14, 2010

you can try aquamend with the superglue... i have always just used superglue on my sps it stays there long enough for it to encrust and the rest is history...

revhtree · Apr 14, 2010

Yes try aquamend from Home Depot. Just turn your skimmer off for a day or so and break it back in slowly.

650-IS350 · Apr 14, 2010

Just turn your skimmer off for a day or so TRUE THAT. or also run some carbon ?

inactive · Apr 14, 2010

I never turn my skimmer off when applying putty.. never really had any problems with overflowing and what not... I put about 1 stick of AM in the 55g a week haha. May be just my luck though..

viper1972 · Apr 14, 2010

No Home Depot, would Lowes have it?

650-IS350 · Apr 14, 2010

I believe Lowes has it too....

Kray, my deltec goes nuts if I use too much aquamend. skimmer over flows and over skims.

knockout · Apr 15, 2010

is the aquamend the same product we buy the LFS as reef epoxy? I can save some $ using the HD one

650-IS350 · Apr 15, 2010

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=aquamend%20epoxy&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

amore169 · Apr 15, 2010

I also use the one from HD.

CoralBandit · Apr 15, 2010

The glue of all glues is making a sandwich with super glue gel as the bread and aquamend epoxy as the butter be forwarned its nearly impossible to get it off the rock lol. Also you need to use GOOD glue not just walmart super glue gel its too runny. The stuff at LFS is the consistency you want but I can tell you a secret: Go to Michaels and get Metal and Jewelry glue. Its the same exact glue as that BSI coral glue but it only costs $4 as opposed to $10-15 from those commi LFS's lol

inTank · Apr 15, 2010

Glue thread

CoralBandit · Apr 15, 2010

yup same thing

inactive · Apr 15, 2010

inTank said:
Glue thread

Really? haha

snookin321 · Apr 15, 2010

CoralBandit said:
The glue of all glues is making a sandwich with super glue gel as the bread and aquamend epoxy as the butter be forwarned its nearly impossible to get it off the rock lol. Also you need to use GOOD glue not just walmart super glue gel its too runny. The stuff at LFS is the consistency you want but I can tell you a secret: Go to Michaels and get Metal and Jewelry glue. Its the same exact glue as that BSI coral glue but it only costs $4 as opposed to $10-15 from those commi LFS's lol

Is that the name of the glue? Metal and jewelry glue? just want to make sure don't want to get the wrong one and nuke my tank!

kev2me · Apr 15, 2010

Looks like this:

JR's Reef · Apr 15, 2010

I get the superglue brand gel from the dollar tree

You get 2 tubes in a pack for a buck

dtpollard · Apr 15, 2010

JR's Reef said:
I get the superglue brand gel from the dollar tree You get 2 tubes in a pack for a buck

My dollor store has 3 in SG Gel's in it for a buck.
The putty does not seem to work that well for me alone. I use it to make the cast, shove it on the rock to get the form with the frag attached, then set the whole thing on a frag rack for several hours to get hard, then cover the bottom with SG Gel, and put in the same place, that way the SG has lots of contact area, hold it in place for 5 minutes, and your done.

JR's Reef · Apr 15, 2010

dtpollard said:
My dollor store has 3 in SG Gel's in it for a buck.
The putty does not seem to work that well for me alone. I use it to make the cast, shove it on the rock to get the form with the frag attached, then set the whole thing on a frag rack for several hours to get hard, then cover the bottom with SG Gel, and put in the same place, that way the SG has lots of contact area, hold it in place for 5 minutes, and your done.

I looked mine has 3 as well