[Coral-List] Best Non-Toxic Marine Epoxy?

martina m.milanese at studioassociatogaia.com
Fri Mar 13 05:15:15 EDT 2015


Following upon Shimrit: we used the same epoxy to work with the sponge 
Chondrilla nucula and we had no problem at all. The product was still on 
the marked one year ago.



Il 12/03/15 12:36, Shimrit Perkol-Finkel ha scritto:
> We've successfully used marine epoxy (Subcoat S. Veneziani) for
> transplantation of fucoid algae. As the algae frond was successfully
> encapsulated in the epoxy with no damage, I strongly believe it would be
> great for coral restoration.
>
> I got it in Italy at the time, hope you can find it or something similar.
>
> Best,
>
> Shimrit
>
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 6:22 PM, Hannah Aichelman <hannahaichelman at gmail.com
>> wrote:
>
>> Hi Coral List,
>>
>> We are trying to find the best non-toxic marine epoxy that will be used to
>> seal core plugs from recently drilled coral colonies (Siderastrea siderea
>> and Pseudodiploria strigosa). Any ideas for the best options? We are trying
>> not to use Z-SPAR because of potential toxicity to the coral.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Hannah
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