Glueing crushed coral to PVC?

[SRV]

Has anybody out there glued crushed coral gravel to PVC. It seems to me that I've seen a thread somewhere, (RC maybe) but can't seem to find it. I'm running 1" PVC pipe along the bottom of my tank and don't want to be reading "1" IPS PVC 1120-200 PSI @ etc." after my fish dig it up. :lol: You get the idea. Thought about sanding the pipe, applying silicone and rolling it in the crushed coral. Maybe hot glue? Anybody done this with any success?

 

[returnofsid]

Coraline algae will quickly conceal the writing on the piping. If you were going to attempt to glue, I'd use silicone I think...or even the PVC cement.

 

[SRV]

Coraline algae will quickly conceal the writing on the piping. If you were going to attempt to glue, I'd use silicone I think...or even the PVC cement.

I understand about the coraline covering the pipe, which is fine for the pipe on th back wall. In fact, sanding the pipe and using the purple primer works really well to hide the pipe until the coralines start. I'm going to stack and zip tie rock to the pipe anyway, so that shouldn't be an issue. What I'm really trying to do is blend the horizontial pipe into the gravel. There was a tread on the OM website and a guy used industrial hot glue? What ever that is? Higher temp hot glue? Beats me!! Anyway, I think silicone is probably what I'll try unless someone can give me a better way to go.

 

[mojoreef]

Silicone will work fine, just make sure its aquarium grade.


Mike

 

[SRV]

Silicone will work fine, just make sure its aquarium grade.


Mike

This was my plan, was just seeing if there was something better. Thanks, Mike.
Rick