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Old 09-22-2008, 04:03 PM
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Default Reef expoxy disaster

Yesterday i purcahse a hammer coral and and mounted it an hour after recivcing it with Reef expoxy disaster. After mounting it i noticed the tank getting really cloudy. I guess the epoxy was dissloving 2 hour later my fish started to float on the bottom of the TANK But the corals were open?.. and the tank was still cloudy.

Worry my tank would crash i did a 40% water change and added carbon and removed all the expoxy that was added. This morning my tank was clear but my fish

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were either laying on there side in the tank or not moving at all. has anyone had this happen before and do you think my lifestock will survive?

My clown this morning was swimming be looked like HELL.
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Old 09-22-2008, 04:14 PM
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I've used an entire stick of epoxy without issues. I use the stuff from J&L in the green package. If you used aquarium epoxy, I'd find it hard to believe it killed fish, unless you used a few pounds!!
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I rememeber a friend of mine used some on his aquapod (the milliputty kind) with the same results.
He followed the instructions to the letter (even rinsed the putty to ensure most of the crap was off before putting it into his tank.

It was only a 12 gallon tank, but after it happened we checked at OA and JL and no one there had anything different than aquattros comments to share.

After some checking online, we found a few cases where this exact thing HAD occured.
I don't know how big your tank is, but even a little of this stuff breaking down in a small system can blanket the water and starve everything for oxygen, or at least thats what it looked like was happening as snails couldnt grip glass like it was all coated in a slime and fish were trying to get to the top of the tank like they were oxygen starved.

I was scared off of the frag glue after that indcident as nowhere did the instructions say there was a tank size limit for the use of the glue and my friend was very dilligent in following the instructions and using as little of the product in the first place as possible.

Rest assured, this stuff can kill fish in the right situation and you don't have to use pounds of it and while I use it on my largetr system now, I would never use it in a 20 gallon or under system ever.
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Old 09-22-2008, 04:36 PM
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I rememeber a friend of mine used some on his aquapod (the milliputty kind) with the same results.
He followed the instructions to the letter (even rinsed the putty to ensure most of the crap was off before putting it into his tank.

It was only a 12 gallon tank, but after it happened we checked at OA and JL and no one there had anything different than aquattros comments to share.

After some checking online, we found a few cases where this exact thing HAD occured.
I don't know how big your tank is, but even a little of this stuff breaking down in a small system can blanket the water and starve everything for oxygen, or at least thats what it looked like was happening as snails couldnt grip glass like it was all coated in a slime and fish were trying to get to the top of the tank like they were oxygen starved.


I was scared off of the frag glue after that indcident as nowhere did the instructions say there was a tank size limit for the use of the glue and my friend was very dilligent in following the instructions and using as little of the product in the first place as possible.

Rest assured, this stuff can kill fish in the right situation and you don't have to use pounds of it and while I use it on my largetr system now, I would never use it in a 20 gallon or under system ever.

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I've used an entire stick of epoxy without issues. I use the stuff from J&L in the green package. If you used aquarium epoxy, I'd find it hard to believe it killed fish, unless you used a few pounds!!
I've used this stuff to, and I never have had any problems. However I have only used it in 120g+ sized tanks.
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my system is a 14GAL
and ur description sounds bang on. ACK time to get an airstone. I hope my snail dont die. Ill post the brand name of the epoxy later today. It was a purple and green mix.
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AquaScape Construction Epoxy?
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his was either the tunze or the milliputty version.
I don't know if the kind aquattro is talking about is the same as you don't need to mix 2 diff puttys to use them reef epoxy in the green tube.

Maybe this issue is only for the kind you need to mix together....
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This is the stuff I use

http://www.jlaquatics.com/phpstore/s...ct_ID=mc-hfast
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Aquascape is the kind you mix together too, I've been using it in my nano will no ill affects.
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