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06/26/2009, 05:20 AM | #1 |
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Super Glue or marine glue
what is the differance in gluing frags to coral.
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06/26/2009, 06:09 AM | #2 |
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well you glue frags to rocks not to coral itself. A frag is a coral.
Many people use super glue gel to directly glue a coral frag to a rock. If your frag already comes on a rock you can always use a marine epoxy to secure it to a rock. usually they come in a two part solution where you mixed the too colors together and you get a gummy putty that you secure to the rock and the frag.
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06/26/2009, 06:41 AM | #3 |
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thanks I have some frags that I want to secure to rock .I have disruptive crabs that like to knock things over at night.
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06/26/2009, 07:09 AM | #4 |
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Super glue is easier to hide imo. I use it as much as possible over epoxy.
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06/26/2009, 07:17 AM | #5 |
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Super glue is quicker and easier too, IMHO. Epoxy is great when you need to fill big gaps and make something big (i.e. gluing a stack of live rock together) but for frags, superglue rules IMHO.
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06/26/2009, 10:31 AM | #6 |
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I agree. For me the best approach is to glue a frag to rock rubble using superglue (in my case IC Gel) and then epoxy using aquamend (home depot) the rock rubble to my live rock.
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