deltec epoxy issues

christyf5 · #1 01-06-2009, 04:17 PM

Now I know some of you hate this stuff. I like it, it works for me and I like the coralline color. However, I purchased my last batch in November and went along my merry way attaching various frags. Strangely enough almost a month and a half went by without using it

and I used it the other night and it won't cure. I looked online to see that i was using the correct ratio of 1:1, I've tried various other ratios of the two parts. I've had a ball of it sitting on my desk for 3 days now and its still soft and gooey it was all soft and gooey in my tank as well. I had to go out and buy some of that holdfast stuff (which I hate the smell and that its hard to get off your fingers while you're working in the tank, but hey it seems to work).

Anyone ever had this issue before? Just wondering if its a quality control thing or an environmental thing maybe? The fish room can get pretty tropical sometimes but for the most part with the weather lately its been average room temp or a bit lower.

Chowder · #2 01-06-2009, 04:23 PM

I have had it not cure before but it was not completly mixed together. So part of it hardened the not so well mixed together part was still gooey.

Tom R · #3 01-06-2009, 04:25 PM

Obviously it is not like good Brandy, aging doesn't make it better.

Tom R

Myka · #4 01-06-2009, 08:54 PM

In the past I had Deltec pack for over a year, and it still cured. That's odd. Have you written Deltec about the issue?

christyf5 · #5 01-06-2009, 08:59 PM

no not yet, thought I'd circulate it here first

Skimmerking · #6 01-06-2009, 09:28 PM

i use this stuff called Pc marine you can get it at the home depot its the exact same as the D&D putty my friend has been using it for years now and has no bad effects ait doenst mess up your skimmer either.

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you will have to order it in my friends in the states all use it and they swear by it i use it and its great..

untamed · #7 01-06-2009, 11:22 PM

I use that stuff all the time...What you describe has never happened to me.

How's your mind these days? Are you SURE that you mixed both parts in this test glob...or is it possible that you've only got a glob of the pink part?