Using Super Glue On Plants.

[Urban Aquaria]

I tried using aquarium-safe silicone to attach plants before, but it requires much longer cure time (and it can't be put under water until it cures fully), so the plants will usually need to be misted constantly until that happens, hence requires more time and effort.

[ConcaveLiNkiN]

If we ever plan to rescape, when remove the plants, will the gel glue be removable too? If not, the rock or the wood might be gone to waste. And cannot be recycled, if we choose to change the plants on them.

Just my 2cent after thinking about it for a while, purchased the glue but never really use it over last weekend when I set up my tank.


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eRic

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[David]

The stone can be saved but the plant is gone. The only thing left on the rock could and most likely the white patch.

[Urban Aquaria]

Yeah, usually the cured glue can be scraped off quite easily if you detach the plants, but there will sometimes be some bits of the residue remaining that might need more effort to remove.

I guess if you have very nice wood or rocks that you want to keep in pristine condition, or tend to keep rearranging or changing the plants, then maybe just tie the plants on instead.

In my case, i super glue my anubias to small rocks which are basically just anchors to weight down the plants. The rocks are partially buried or hidden in the substrate amongst other plants, so can't be seen anyways.

[herns]

hey guys,

does white super glue residue faded overtime?
anyone experience this applied to moss?

[Urban Aquaria]

hey guys,

does white super glue residue faded overtime?
anyone experience this applied to moss?

The glue residue does gradually fade abit over time, but its usually still visible for quite a while. For those plants which i use glue to attach to objects, i can still see most of the glue reside intact after a year, that's why it's best to only use a tiny bit, so that its as unnoticeable as possible.

Moss can be abit tricky to glue on objects, you'll just have to make sure very little glue is used as it can get messy and the moss will take a while to grow out enough to cover the residue stains.

[herns]

I tried attaching fissidens geppi and the residues are noticeable. Unlike other moss such as vesicularias, etc, they would cover the object moss attached to overtime.