Reefmat Install Question
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KrisReef
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The instructions (if I remember correctly for pvc glue) says wait an hour, or 24-48 for maximum bonding. I have glued pvc for tank applications, let it set for 15 minutes before the flow was turned on. It will hold.
The toxicity to animals, if you us a minimal amount and drip it into the tank in 15 minutes is probably negligible. The hermit crabs will complain that it gave them a headache and the clownfish will also call an attourney but they won't be able to prove any damages. And that is after 15 minutes drying time.
Give it a hour, or a day and no one will notice anything. Always "best" to wait a day, but if you go lightly with primer and glue (avoid globbing the wet glue inside the fittings- excess doesn't dry fast and it doesn't help seal either) an hour is plenty of time for the glue to dry/evaporate off the nasty solvents so virtually nothing remains that can enter the water if you do a clean job of it. HTH.
I tend to be not exceptionally tidy with my glue & primer work but I haven't poisoned any fish with glue vapors from starting water flows early through 1 hour-dried pvc joints.
The toxicity to animals, if you us a minimal amount and drip it into the tank in 15 minutes is probably negligible. The hermit crabs will complain that it gave them a headache and the clownfish will also call an attourney but they won't be able to prove any damages. And that is after 15 minutes drying time.
Give it a hour, or a day and no one will notice anything. Always "best" to wait a day, but if you go lightly with primer and glue (avoid globbing the wet glue inside the fittings- excess doesn't dry fast and it doesn't help seal either) an hour is plenty of time for the glue to dry/evaporate off the nasty solvents so virtually nothing remains that can enter the water if you do a clean job of it. HTH.
G’sReef
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Thanks I think I let it dry for about an hour . LolThe instructions (if I remember correctly for pvc glue) says wait an hour, or 24-48 for maximum bonding. I have glued pvc for tank applications, let it set for 15 minutes before the flow was turned on. It will hold.
The toxicity to animals, if you us a minimal amount and drip it into the tank in 15 minutes is probably negligible. The hermit crabs will complain that it gave them a headache and the clownfish will also call an attourney but they won't be able to prove any damages. And that is after 15 minutes drying time.
Give it a hour, or a day and no one will notice anything. Always "best" to wait a day, but if you go lightly with primer and glue (avoid globbing the wet glue inside the fittings- excess doesn't dry fast and it doesn't help seal either) an hour is plenty of time for the glue to dry/evaporate off the nasty solvents so virtually nothing remains that can enter the water if you do a clean job of it. HTH.
I tend to be not exceptionally tidy with my glue & primer work but I haven't poisoned any fish with glue vapors from starting water flows early through 1 hour-dried pvc joints.
