Using glue underwater? - Aquarium Advice

SeeDemTails · 10-01-2006, 02:38 PM

Is it worth getting the epoxy?...I have been trying to use gel superglue to put the rock together in my girls new tank, and cannot get it to gold anything!??!?

Is there a trick to it?....it seems like it is drying to fast in the water!

TIA!

evercl92 · 10-01-2006, 03:31 PM

I use this epoxy and it is great. I've used it to glue rock to rock, rock to wood, wood to wood, live plant to wood....etc.... I haven't tried any other "glue" to compare, but this stuff dries hard as rock.

afishyonados · 10-01-2006, 04:02 PM

The superglue is better used outside of the tank. It will cure too quickly under water, sometimes even drying up inside the application tube!

The epoxy does work well, but be sure to have it mixed well, and rubbed to a hot sticky consistency before use.

SeeDemTails · 10-01-2006, 09:40 PM

Thanks, that was my problem with super glue!

10-01-2006, 02:38 PM	#1
SeeDemTails Aquarium Advice Freak Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Daytona Beach FL Posts: 436 Images: 4	Using glue underwater? Is it worth getting the epoxy?...I have been trying to use gel superglue to put the rock together in my girls new tank, and cannot get it to gold anything!??!? Is there a trick to it?....it seems like it is drying to fast in the water! TIA!

10-01-2006, 03:31 PM	#2
evercl92 Aquarium Advice FINatic Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Groveport, OH Posts: 624 Images: 5	I use this epoxy and it is great. I've used it to glue rock to rock, rock to wood, wood to wood, live plant to wood....etc.... I haven't tried any other "glue" to compare, but this stuff dries hard as rock. __________________ "... if any one specie does not become modified and improved in a corresponding degree with its competitors, it will soon be exterminated." - Charles Darwin

10-01-2006, 04:02 PM	#3
afishyonados Aquarium Advice Freak Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Sumter, SC Posts: 337	The superglue is better used outside of the tank. It will cure too quickly under water, sometimes even drying up inside the application tube! The epoxy does work well, but be sure to have it mixed well, and rubbed to a hot sticky consistency before use. __________________ Fish do not read books, nor care what we think.

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SeeDemTails Aquarium Advice Freak Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Daytona Beach FL Posts: 436 Images: 4	Thanks, that was my problem with super glue!