Might have made a big mistake...

BrooksReef · Mar 17, 2010

Is it best to leave the skimmer on or keep it off while it is still in it's "crazy stage?"

boehm742 · Mar 17, 2010

Checkitout said:
I use this stuff all the time

Ever broke the plastic off to see how big the tube is on those?

SDguy · Mar 17, 2010

Kraylen said:
Im confused, Aquamend is by far the best reef welder.

Agreed. I've used too many tubes to count in my tank.

oh: Not even close to skimmer craziness as the TLF stuff.

luke33 · Mar 17, 2010

BrooksReef said:
Is it best to leave the skimmer on or keep it off while it is still in it's "crazy stage?"

Just run carbon and let the skimmer drain back into your sump.

BrooksReef · Mar 17, 2010

Everything looks great so far, aside from the crazy microbubbles from the skimmer.

Thanks again for the helpful advice everyone. Definitely calmed me down, hah.

lazyreefer · Mar 21, 2010

A single marble sized piece of aquamend made my water cloudy as heck, (175 gallons) I'm not really happy with it. Warnings on the package about touching your eyes, your skin, getting it in your mouth.....but its fine for the fishes ?? my LFS sells some similar epoxy that is purposely coralline colored, it costs twice as much but you get twice as much. I'm gonna assume that wouldn't turn my water cloudy and is safer since its geared towards the reefer and sold in an LFS not a hardware store.

No more aquamend for me.....

inactive · Mar 26, 2010

lazyreefer said:
A single marble sized piece of aquamend made my water cloudy as heck, (175 gallons) I'm not really happy with it. Warnings on the package about touching your eyes, your skin, getting it in your mouth.....but its fine for the fishes ?? my LFS sells some similar epoxy that is purposely coralline colored, it costs twice as much but you get twice as much. I'm gonna assume that wouldn't turn my water cloudy and is safer since its geared towards the reefer and sold in an LFS not a hardware store.

No more aquamend for me.....

You must be doing something different. I have never had aquamend cloud my tanks at all... I've put 2 entire sticks into a 6g AIO system and the water was CC... no skimmer.

I wonder what happened to make the aquamend do that?

inactive · Mar 26, 2010

lazyreefer said:
A single marble sized piece of aquamend made my water cloudy as heck, (175 gallons) I'm not really happy with it. Warnings on the package about touching your eyes, your skin, getting it in your mouth.....but its fine for the fishes ?? my LFS sells some similar epoxy that is purposely coralline colored, it costs twice as much but you get twice as much. I'm gonna assume that wouldn't turn my water cloudy and is safer since its geared towards the reefer and sold in an LFS not a hardware store.

No more aquamend for me.....

The more expensive putty is the same chemicals that are in Aquamend + Dye.

The warning on the label are no different from any other product... For example, super glue is more harmful to the person than aquamend and I have covered myself in SG many times.

What works for humans, may not work for fish and visa versa... don't eat the fish food either, they ain't joking when they say "not for human consumption."

seafansar · Mar 26, 2010

Yeah, I use aquamend all the time. I've never had any problems and I've used tons of tubes by now. superglue gel --- aquamend ----superglue gel. Works like a charm.

fenderguy1 · Mar 26, 2010

What about Billy Mays magic putty? Is it reef safe?

inactive · Mar 26, 2010

fenderguy1 said:
What about Billy Mays magic putty? Is it reef safe?

No, the "magic" inside is known to kill fish and inverts.

May work in a dungeon type tank, but not reef.

fenderguy1 · Mar 26, 2010

:0 Thanks Kraylen! I had bought some after reading (on a less cared for forum,dang now im gonna get banned) That it was reef safe.. Im really glad i did not use it yet.