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05-22-2003, 11:29 PM
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Glue for frags
What glue can you use to glue frags to LR ?
-Paul
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05-22-2003, 11:41 PM
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Big Fishy
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Mexico, Missouri
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super glue gel.
Has always worked for me, hard or soft corals.
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05-22-2003, 11:47 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Southern Ca.
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Don't know the name brand, but you can go to most hardware stores and buy epoxi that comes in like a clay form. This epoxi is in like a roll form, brown outside, and pinkish in the middle. You simply cut the amount you may need and knead it together. It works well, does not harm your reef.
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05-22-2003, 11:48 PM
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Nothing to See Here
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Montana
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Hey Dave! You got a product name for the super glue gel that you can reccommend? Thanks!  |
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05-22-2003, 11:58 PM
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More specific names would be great. I just got a frag and would like to glue it to a certain piece I have.
-Paul
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05-23-2003, 12:11 AM
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Stress Monger
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Las Vegas, NV
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Any brand of super glue gel will work. The insides are all the same just the name is changed to confuse the buyer... |
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05-23-2003, 12:15 AM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Pekin, IL
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as long as it is a cyanoacrylate glue you should be fine. Are you glueing a hard or soft coral, I find it better to let softies attach on their own either with rubber bands or some type of mesh.
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05-23-2003, 12:32 AM
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They are all attached to a rock. Here's what hey are. Don't know what they are called. Got them from my work 
-Paul
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05-23-2003, 12:34 AM
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Also, do I just take the frag out, put some glue on the bottom and stick it to where I would like it to be ?
-Paul
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05-23-2003, 01:00 AM
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Stress Monger
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Las Vegas, NV
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That looks like a Goniapora, flower pot coral. If it is a "goni" it is one creature and not a frag. Do the "arms/tenacles/polyps" extend out, say up to 5"-6"? |
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05-23-2003, 01:14 AM
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Big Fishy
Join Date: Apr 2003
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I used an apoxy when I glued my frogspawn down. I got it at the hard ware store for 9 bucks. It came in a dual tube form made for use to glue while in water. That way I didn't have to pull any thing out of the tank. The apoxy set in 2 minutes and harmed nothing in my tank. I would say just read up on whatever you use to make sure it won't release toxins. The stuff I got claimed that it was safe for any under water use and that all it would release would be heat from the curing process.
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05-23-2003, 02:49 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2003
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That coral is a galaxy coral. I have one in my tank tooooo!
See:
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05-23-2003, 06:15 AM
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Good boy
Join Date: Jan 2000
Location: Marietta, GA, USA
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For underwater applications I have found that plumbers epoxy putty works best. I use Devcon which is available from the hardware store. It's the same stuff sold in LFS as Aquastick but much cheaper.
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05-23-2003, 07:31 AM
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Nothing to See Here
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Thanks everyone on their input on this! |
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05-23-2003, 11:35 AM
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They have only reach about 2". But they where only under light for about an hour. They are attached to a rock and I wanted to glue that piece to a piece of my LR. Could that work ?
-Paul
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