Glueing Foam

[Verminator89]

So i'm currently in the middle of what looks like a war-zone. I have foam balls all around the room, up my arms, down my jeans. Generall, they are everywhere. Amidst this mess there is not only myself, but my cat (having far to much fun), and my 3D design. Which looks awesome.

There is but one problem, it isnt glued/siliconed together. My question is can i use ordinary glue? I know we can super-glue Anubias to wood ect, so i'm assuming i can just super-glue all this foam together.

Then when its dry, i can start carving it.

I thought i would double check, as i'd hate to mate a hash of this.


EDIT: Ok, so after using Ultraloc Super Glue, it appears to have MELTED the foam. So this obviously hasnt worked. Please someone tell me which to use that will work. Failiung this i'm about to pop up to B&Q now to get some advice.

 

[Verminator89]

I'm guessing this has been answered by the thread about "Fish Safe Adhesive", which was posted a couple hours after this, yet nobody was able to tell me on this thread. Fantastic...

 

[tribalbrit]

use either aquatic silicone or adheseal... you will need silicone to stick the background in the tank so why not use that?
The pink styrene is better to use than the white jaborlite stuff..
What you covering the the foam in? I used resin and fine sand for mine.

 

[Verminator89]

When its complete, if i manage it, it will still be quite alot of polystyrene. So i'm going with a concrete mixture as it'll weight it down some more. Seeing as this is going in my paludarium it will only be filled 1/3 of the tank height. So boyancy aught not be a problem.

I don't know where to even begin looking for epoxy resin. Its rather expensive also, so i'll stick with concrete perhaps.

 

[tribalbrit]

As always resin can be found on ebay. There's a guy in pinxton, notts that sells at reasonable rates. I got enough for my 72" x 30" for £20. stuck the sand (kiln dried) straight on while still tacky

 

[Verminator89]

Would you recommend Epoxy resin more so than cncrete. Also, sticking sand to it would be better than coloured cement, as it would look farr more natural. Although i have the added issue (slightly) of colouring the wood section of my carving differenetly to the rock section.

Apologies is that doesnt seem coherent (bno idea), i'm half cut right now I won't know if tha treads right untill tommorow...

 

[tribalbrit]

Yeh I know what you mean I thought about the same thing, then I decided to leave the wood out and add in actual wood instead, not attached to the background.. I would,and did, use epoxy and sand and it does give a nice effect. once cured there isn't any leaching as there would be with concrete.