superglueing a leather frag

[flricordia]

A tank I take care of had a really big finger leather. It was awesome looking. ITs sides would shimmer a green flouresence. Well, a large candycane was knocked over onto it and sat there for about a week before it was discovered and in the mean time both the candycane heads that lay on the leather and the side of the leather that the candycane lay against were shot.
I fragged the leather to try and saze what I could. I tryed using both rubberbands and monofilament but was having a difficult time with that so decided to try superglue. I dried of the cut part of the leather and the frag rock and applied superglue gel, then knowing that the leather would probably slime and come loos from the superglue I spread it a tad onto the sides of the leather frags to actually entomb it so to speak, make a shell for its base. They are doing awesome and still holding. Did this this morning.

 

[chilwil84]

with the leather i have i found that with a fresh cut it will come loose in a couple days with superglue so now i just put the frag on the bottom for a couple days and allow it to heal then superglue it and it stays

 

[puffer32]

Put a rubberband loosely around the frag and rock, it will take hold on its own in less then a week.

 

[chilwil84]

i seam to get multiple frags when i ruberband my leather both haves stay but it loses some size in the process

 

[coraljunky]

Originally Posted by chilwil84
with the leather i have i found that with a fresh cut it will come loose in a couple days with superglue so now i just put the frag on the bottom for a couple days and allow it to heal then superglue it and it stays

Same here. Got tired of chasing loose frags

 

[flricordia]

So far they have stayed put. I guess going up the sides and making a somewhat tube for them to hold into must have helped. Must ahve gotten lucky with these ones. So far so good.