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So I got my Caribsea Rock in and luckily only one rock was broken. I was thinking I could just use a whole bottle of super glue gel to repair it before I use it. What have y’all used to adhere rocks together best?

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Luckily, it’s a very clean break that connects perfectly, so there’s a lot of surface area in the joint. You can kind of see the line under my pointing finger.

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You know some things don’t work out like you think they will. Found an aiptasia on one of the new rocks. Problem:it’s a foundation rock holding others up.
Solution:squirt with a syringe a few cc’s of lemon juice. Next put a little bit of pH buffer to counter the lemon juice. I skipped one little step , probably cause I’ve been a little distracted and added it directly to back sump space of my SR. Woops. Corals not happy with me. Fortunately it looks like my blunder is going to be forgiven as the majority are back open.
 

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So I got my Caribsea Rock in and luckily only one rock was broken. I was thinking I could just use a whole bottle of super glue gel to repair it before I use it. What have y’all used to adhere rocks together best?

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Luckily, it’s a very clean break that connects perfectly, so there’s a lot of surface area in the joint. You can kind of see the line under my pointing finger.

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Sand and super glue is how i built all my structures. Broke them apart with hammers and built it all up how i wanted. Pour a little super glue on the joint, pour sand over it and then do a second round of glue/sand and its hard as mortar. You can add real mortar on top if you want too once its dried and holding shape
 

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So I got my Caribsea Rock in and luckily only one rock was broken. I was thinking I could just use a whole bottle of super glue gel to repair it before I use it. What have y’all used to adhere rocks together best?

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Luckily, it’s a very clean break that connects perfectly, so there’s a lot of surface area in the joint. You can kind of see the line under my pointing finger.

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I use Gorilla Glue gel mainly though I’m doing a trial run of locktite gel as well to see if there’s any difference besides price
 

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Sand and super glue is how i built all my structures. Broke them apart with hammers and built it all up how i wanted. Pour a little super glue on the joint, pour sand over it and then do a second round of glue/sand and its hard as mortar. You can add real mortar on top if you want too once its dried and holding shape
Hmm sounds good. I’ll definitely think about doing that if I ever decide to go bigger and decide to use Caribsea or Marcorock
 

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Finished with tanks for now. Waiting for wife to get home shortly to fill me in on what’s going on. Was grateful for distraction since I was at home in wait mode
 

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I also owed this photo of my gonis. They all retracted since I killed the flow to take a photo and bumped the rack. Took it quickly since I had another work meeting. The care bear on the right is crazy bright.

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The CB I have is usually the one coral that commented on when I show pics to people
 

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So I got my Caribsea Rock in and luckily only one rock was broken. I was thinking I could just use a whole bottle of super glue gel to repair it before I use it. What have y’all used to adhere rocks together best?

IMG_2664.jpeg


Luckily, it’s a very clean break that connects perfectly, so there’s a lot of surface area in the joint. You can kind of see the line under my pointing finger.

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I’ve used rock dust and thin superglue or baking soda and thin superglue. Both work well, although I’ve only tried it to on dry base rock.
 

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