Is superglue safe for fish?

[ChriX]

I need to make a frame with a net on it for my danio breeding setup, and was wondering if superglue (in its dried form) is safe for fish? Alternatively what about hot-melt glue?

Cheers

 

[Becca]

Sure, as long as you're not gluing the fish's fins together.

Just kidding.

I think I read on this forum somewhere that superglue isn't advisable, but there is some form of glue that you can use underwater (obviously, tanks are created with it). Not sure what it is, where you can get it or what it's even called. But I think it does exist.

Wow, lots of help I've been, huh? Good luck!! (If I find the post, I'll throw it up here for you.)

 

[ChriX]

I know I could use aquarium sealant, but I thought something around here must be fine, its only to glue a couple bits of plastic together. Thanks though!

 

[Tropjunky]

i would stick with sillicone. super glue was designed during a war and was used instead of stitches (faster and just as effecive on wounds) so it should be ok but i wouldn't rish it. silllicone is more flexible and will not do anything to ur fish.

and the thing about super glue invented in a war is true. doctors used it as a form of stitching to stop bleeding and don't use it unless there's no alturnative trust me it will sting like hell.

USE SILLICONE

 

[Tropjunky]

oh and super glue is a chemical bonding agent so it might react to form toxic chemicals if used on some plastics

 

[rollntider]

just use the Fish safe silicone better safe than sorry

 

[Tropjunky]

my thoughts exactly

 

[R3GG]

I'd give you mine but it ran out

 

[Silly me]

super glue was designed during a war and was used instead of stitches

Superglue Origins

From another Usenet posting:

"What is now marketed as Superglue (TM, patent pending, whatever) was invented in the UK as a replacement for sutures. That is what it was designed for originally, not a household adhesive."

Not quite. Although Superglue has been used with great success in place of sutures for certain medical procedures, the oft-made claim that it was originally invented for this purpose is false.

In fact, Superglue (known to chemists as "cyanoacrylate") was invented quite by accident. Twice. In both cases, scientists were trying to come up with new plastic compounds for use in applications such as gun sights and jet canopies, happening unexpectedly upon a formulation that stuck to everything it touched. The first time it occurred, during World War II, researchers regarded it as a nuisance. The second time, during the 1950s, a light bulb finally went on in somebody's head. It was first sold as a commercial product in 1958

 

[Fiddlesticks]

I would stick with aquarium silicone. I glue my rock formations together with it, and it works fine.
IV got an interesting fact about super glue. Police use it to see if there are fingerprints on a car that is used in a crime. They place the car in a hot room, like a painting booth, with a little cup of superglue. As the fumes start to escape they run along the car and stick to the oily fingerprints. A little off topic I know, but still a very cool fact.

 

[Opcn]

Are you sure super glue is cyano acrilate. CA (as its called in the model vehicle industry) is not disolved by mineral oils but fresh super glue is. Also CA heats up on contact and superglue does not.

And no Superglue Will kill your fish (Everything salt water and many freshwater but Mabey some danios might live throught it)