Silicon is stronger BUT is toxic until fully cured. Super glue not strong to glue rocks but can cure even submerse.
For silicon, clear is easily available. Black silicone is hard to find in local hardware stores.
Hi! All,
Need some suggestions!
Whats the best way to glue rocks to make hills that can be then placed inside a tank?
Will super glue work or silicon?
If silicon then which brand would you recommend and which colour (clear or black)?
Thanks in advance for any pointers.
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Saugata Banerjee
Silicon is stronger BUT is toxic until fully cured. Super glue not strong to glue rocks but can cure even submerse.
For silicon, clear is easily available. Black silicone is hard to find in local hardware stores.
Thanks for the suggestion.
Can you suggest some brands of Silicon which I can go for? Saw so many types of Silicon at the hardware store that got completely confused....
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Saugata Banerjee
Best to get the glue provided by aquarium shops.
3M branded ones is ok.
Thanks a ton.
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Saugata Banerjee
The expert uses filter wool placed between 2 rocks then apply liquid super glue to glue it.
Thanks dersuz. Thats indeed an interesting way to do it. Will try this for sure.
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Saugata Banerjee
You can use the liquid super glue and mixed with cigarette butts / tissue paper to create the bonding of rocks together.
Also, you can try putty cement that can create very well bonding.
Another solutions is using quick cure foam. NA at Thomson do sells those from Dymax one. You can also find the foam from Aquatic Avenue at Red Hill.
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Thanks Jackychun for the ideas.
I tried silicone to stick my drift wood with a rock but it gave away. So finally used super glue and it worked quite well. The challenge is to bring both the surfaces together for the glue to stick as due to the uneven surface of the rock its not easy. But anyways finally was able to do.
Btw when you mention cigarette butts how do you suggest this to be used?
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Cigarette butt filter. Check youtube video by greenaqua
Hi bro,
You can refer to the link below to see how the cigarette butts is used with super glue to make the bonding.
https://youtu.be/4sTfGRKSYzY
You can use brown tissue paper (like Starbucks one ) instead of cigarette butts to do so as well.
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