Super Glue

cobray · 07-10-2006, 12:50 PM

What kind of super glue should I use on my soft coral? I want to glue some yellow pods (not sure of their common name, zoas?) to a rock or shell.

Fly Guy · 07-10-2006, 01:11 PM

I personally use Loc-Tite brand gel. Just always remember that superglue burns and kills whatever part it touches, this goes for softies and sps. So when gluing things like zoas....a little dab'l'duya, and make sure it only gets on the base of the polyp. It also helps i have found to take my dremel tool and make a little appropriately sized slot in the rock....dry it well and then let the glue sit for about 30 seconds in the slot before sitting the polyp in place.

Loverotties · 07-10-2006, 01:14 PM

I like the gel and then I also use the fast dry spray(but I dip a q-tip with it) after the gel.

Wiskey · 07-10-2006, 01:21 PM

For soft coral I just use some thread to loosly hold them down to a rock. If they are happy they attach very fast.

I have never really had superglue work all that well for softies, they are too slimy and slippery.

HTH,
Whiskey

Fly Guy · 07-10-2006, 01:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Loverotties

(but I dip a q-tip with it) after the gel.

the obvious little things we DONT know about things we THINK we know how to do

I of course cant count the number of SPS frags this would have helped with and made easier....................

cobray · 07-10-2006, 05:09 PM

Thanks for the suggestions you guys! I didn't have any glue on hand, so I tied him to a small piece of lace rock with some thread. So far so good, he's up near the top of the tank now in direct light. Will the gentle rocking motion of the current cause the thread to cut into him at all? I tied it loose. He's had a big day, at one point earlier he got "loose" and wound up in the condi anenome! Good thing I noticed and pulled him out of there!

Wiskey · 07-10-2006, 07:14 PM

If the thread does cut him, you will have 2

just hopefully he will have attached on both sides before that happens.

Whiskey

Wiskey · 07-10-2006, 07:15 PM

Good call on getting him out of the Condi, I have a green open brain that ate a number of SPS frags

Whiskey

cobray · 07-10-2006, 08:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Wiskey

If the thread does cut him, you will have 2

just hopefully he will have attached on both sides before that happens.

Whiskey

I think he should attach fairly quickly as you indicated earlier. He's like, about a million billion trillion times happier up there near the light.

He's opened up much farther than ever before!

Wiskey · 07-10-2006, 09:13 PM

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Originally Posted by cobray

He's like, about a million billion trillion times happier up there near the light.

He's opened up much farther than ever before!

Sweet!

Whiskey

Petunia · 07-10-2006, 10:33 PM

I've never had good luck with super glue. I've been using rubberbands to attach softies to live rock or frag plugs.
Let's see some pics Cobray.

jdbassin · 07-10-2006, 10:56 PM

Super glue doesn't work well on softies use a rubber band or thread it with some monofiliment fishing line.

JD

Fly Guy · 07-10-2006, 11:26 PM

Super glue works great on some softies once you figure it out. These yellow zoos were glued and all of the xenia you see in that picture were scraped out of my display tank at the time and glued to rocks in the tank shown about an hour before that pic was taken. Somehow a snail ended up with one of him on his back(front glass). I swear that was not staged. It somehow became unattached from the rock and attached to that snail.

I have also glued all types of mushrooms with success.

Im a professional flyfisherman and i dont have the patience to use line or thread to put them in place. But im sure if i actually watched someone who knew how to do it well actually do it, i might change that thought.