Hi,
I am new around here but i would like to share my experience. I was facing a challenge with the aquascaping as i wanted to merge dry rock together, I am sure all of us want to make their aquarium as much interesting as possible. I end up hitting the wall with it because at first i bought two little fishes Aquastik
That did not work well for me. Not saying it's a bad product it simply did not work for me and perhaps it is not what i wanted to use it for. It did not stick well, and it did dry fast however it did not held the rock well. I started to poke around and i found something that was interesting, I bought my dry rock from Marco Rocks, searching on their site i realized they also sell E-Marco 400 mortar that would be ideal for dry rock however a bit pricey. I know that if you want something decent you need t pay for it but i am simply under a budget and i was forced to search around. Finally i dig around and i found something very interesting...Thermoplastic pellets..You just heat up water to a point it almost boils and i used a spoon to scoop some of these and put them in that water..the color of them changes to clear and it becomes sticky kind of like a sort of like an play-doh for kids. This worked like a charm for me, it's easy to apply ,goes into cracks easily and drys fairly quick as well but not too quick. I paid about $15.00 on Amazon for 15 oz for it. I still have tons left. Best of it all it's not toxic! You can drill through it after it hardens and you can probably even stop a leak with that stuff. I will take some pictures and post it later what i did with it. It seems to hold the rock very strong! Anyway i decided to share it with you in case someone is looking for a solution and it the same limbo i was stuck.
I am new around here but i would like to share my experience. I was facing a challenge with the aquascaping as i wanted to merge dry rock together, I am sure all of us want to make their aquarium as much interesting as possible. I end up hitting the wall with it because at first i bought two little fishes Aquastik
That did not work well for me. Not saying it's a bad product it simply did not work for me and perhaps it is not what i wanted to use it for. It did not stick well, and it did dry fast however it did not held the rock well. I started to poke around and i found something that was interesting, I bought my dry rock from Marco Rocks, searching on their site i realized they also sell E-Marco 400 mortar that would be ideal for dry rock however a bit pricey. I know that if you want something decent you need t pay for it but i am simply under a budget and i was forced to search around. Finally i dig around and i found something very interesting...Thermoplastic pellets..You just heat up water to a point it almost boils and i used a spoon to scoop some of these and put them in that water..the color of them changes to clear and it becomes sticky kind of like a sort of like an play-doh for kids. This worked like a charm for me, it's easy to apply ,goes into cracks easily and drys fairly quick as well but not too quick. I paid about $15.00 on Amazon for 15 oz for it. I still have tons left. Best of it all it's not toxic! You can drill through it after it hardens and you can probably even stop a leak with that stuff. I will take some pictures and post it later what i did with it. It seems to hold the rock very strong! Anyway i decided to share it with you in case someone is looking for a solution and it the same limbo i was stuck.
