Super Glue...safe in tank after it dries?!

IIRC, superglue was invented by the military to act as liquid sutures.

Oh, yeah, even the el cheapo 2 dollars for 4 tubes superglue is reef safe. Some are thicker than others, and those are best for fragging.

 

The active ingredient in Dermabond skin adhesive, commonly used in surgery today, is cyanoacrylate - which is super glue! Great stuff! I prefer the Loctite gel. I think it's easier to work with. The nice thing it is holds frags well, but you can always snap them off to move to another spot.

 

I am really liking the holdfast epoxy as well. Easy to join large pieces of rock together to keep them from sliding or moving.

 

hmm, with all this new info..it leads me to another question. I've got some loose small pieces of rock w/mushrooms on it and loose mushroom/zenia (i think that's what it is). How do you glue that to a piece of base rock? Doesn't it have to be dry and can you actually put glue onto a mushroom? My gf was real sweet and brought home a blue mushroom, but it's loose and i'm trying to get it to stay on top of a rock with not much luck.

 

Super glue gel will bond even when wet. What I do is super glue it to a piece of a plug or a small piece of rock (something small the coral will cover quickly or already covers) and then ball up a small piece of marine epoxy then I stick the ball on the end of the frag plug. With the epoxy on the plug I push it into a rock as hard as I can.

 

Mushrooms will grow to rocks quickly. The best thing to do is put the mushroom on top of a pile of rubble. It should grow to a piece within a couple of days. Then glue the piece where ever you want on your rocks. I always take out my coral and the frag plug or rubble and put it in a 1/2 gallon bucket. That way I can easily do what i need to do without panicking with a bottle of super glue under water.

 

lol...another addition to the first aid kit...super glue.

 

I have used superglue for years as a substitute for sutures. First in hockey, than in combat. Best if you use nail polish remover first (it instantly clots blood). Then you use the superglue to hold the wound closed.

 

I have better luck gluing the rock to the mushroom than the mushroom to the rock (makes perfect sense, right?) - since mushrooms go slime crazy, I flip them over outside of the tank, but a bit of glue on the underside of the mushroom, then gently place a piece of rubble or small rock on the glue, hold in place (not tightly) for about 30 seconds, flip back over the place in the tank. I usually glue mushrooms to smaller pieces of rubble. Once you get them bonded to the rubble, you can glue the piece of rubble to a larger rock in the tank.

 

WOW. Of all the things that BURN when you put them on a cut or scrape, I don't think it could get much worse than acetone: AKA nail polish remover.

I'm not so sure it instantly clots blood as much as it simply causes your flesh to recoil in horror. I think if you cut yourself and put acetone on that cut, you get just a little bit of what hell must feel like.

The Catholic church should stop preaching of brimstone and hellfire. They should just hold a short session of "tiny cut, drop of nail polish remover" followed by a 5 second sermon "that's what'll happen to you if you sin." They could shorten services from an hour plus--down to 5 minutes. Just as effective.

--(no offense meant to any religious folks out there.)