Topic: I want to attach some things together in my fish aquarium. Is superglue safe to use in fish tanks? It seems like a good choice because it dries so fast! I need some help. Thanks for your time.
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Posted by Harley N: I was also looking for a method to attach things together in my fish tanks. I’m glad you brought this us up because it’s a cool topic to talk about. A lot of people don’t know this about superglue. Lets answer your question.
Is Superglue Fish Aquarium Safe?
Super glue is perfectly safe for fish aquariums. You can even attach plant and such underwater with it. Doesn’t harm the fish. People use it with planted aquariums everyday or with saltwater to attach frags. I prefer this brand because it comes in a gel form and dries super fast. Here is a link and photo:
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-Mmk. Anyone else, I’ve seen plenty of people glue plants to driftwood and such. So I know there is stuff available.
-I second the loctite super glue gel. I’ve used it for years in salt and freshwater. You can also use non-toxic hot glue. Just read the label well.
-Didn’t know gorilla glue was true cuz I saw it on the Simpsons and Americans use it so I thought u cud only get it over there but I went to a real military shop and they had loads of it.
-I used loctite super glue gel in my tank. Worked great. Even continues to cure underwater. The super glue gel with the green cap is good to use too. I would maybe wear some type of gloves if possible because it sucks to get on your hands.
-I use super glue as long as it sets before it goes I its fine. I used it in my shrimp tank and never had any die and there by far the most sensitive animal I own.
-Yes, use gel as has been mentioned above. It’s used by reef keepers to fix corals to plugs or life rock too.
-plants should be attached to pourous surfaces so they can adhere to them naturally when they start to grow out. Put it on some wood or zebra rock or something. What are you going to do with little rocks with java moss growing on it? Have you seen how big of a mess java moss grows into?
-Only a tiny bit on my coconut cave.
Been fish keeping for 33 years now and have covered many an object in Java Moss. Have made more coconut caves than I can remember as I used to cover them in Moss & anubius and sell them. Never had a single issue with them floating. Once they’re boiled, they have always sunk.
-Superglue works for hard stuff, probs not moss. I prefer to wrap the moss with cotton string. That way once the cotton string deteriorates the moss would have clung on. the bonus is that green cotton string will blend in and cause no harm to anything else in the tank…
-I posted my tank video about an hour ago. You can in fact glue moss on. But on little rocks it is going to look really dumb.
-Actually I did not post my tank video on this site. It was another one, but I super glued various mosses onto driftwood and large rocks. Java moss gets really big and wide and puffy.
-Not sure if anyone mentioned this already – to lazy to read comments but cotton string is perfect, by the time the moss latches on the string will dissolve
-Cotton string or fishing line will work best for moss. I find it doesnt always stick on the glue. The glue has worked better for anubias and buce and java fern for me.
-Stuck on pretty good! Only wanted small tufts of long moss. I glued them and then “combed” it with my fingers to get rid of any loose ones.
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Plants grew so well and so fast I didn’t do water changes. Took biowheel out. Had perfect water chems from the plants sucking nitrate out to grow, and the soil that was kept from becoming completely anaerobic facilitated nitrifying bacteria (aerobes) as well as nitrate reducing bacteria (facultative anaerobes) that kept ammonia and nitrite in my overstocked livebearer tank at 0. Flourish is my favorite low tech fert. Thrive is tied with it. Thrive+ for high tech with the lighting sustaining red plants bc of the higher iron content in it pulls ahead but only in high tech.
