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- That's a best of 2019 glue.
Super Glue is used for all kinds of purposes
- Yeah.
- Repeat and there is big differences between all of them.
And so today we're gonna highlight some of our favorites
and the things that we think do the best in different areas
starting with
- Yeah, most popular as usual.
We know what you guys are actually buying out there.
We're gonna talk about the cheapest per gram
so what's your best bang for your buck
that you get for super glue
and we're gonna talk about thickest
and quickest setting.
- Well so we're gonna talk about best for aquascaping
and the best in Show
and maybe what we want to see for 2020
I guess so most popular as voted by all of you guys for 2019
Which one is it?
- This is my personal favorite two
and one that I bought before.
It's the BRS extra thick glue.
I was really happy when BRS started carrying these
before I worked here
in which case over double the amount of people are choosing
the BRS extra thick over the next one
and the next one is the BSI IC-Gel.
- [Narrator] So that won't dry behind it.
I will say right between you, I was surprised to see.
So it comes in a couple of different sizes.
There's extra, by the way, just thick and extra thick,
extra thick by ways when I think probably going to want.
But it comes into these, one of them's in a tube.
And one of them's in a bottle,
bottle re closes and sometimes a little bit easier
and doesn't get clogged.
And maybe the reason why this is the number one
but this is definitely my favorite
predominantly because you can squeeze it out underwater
and it doesn't suck water back in like a bottle does.
- Yeah.
- And then just gets ruined the moment you do that.
But it's also easier to control for me
but like this is actually number two to this.
So maybe you guys don't agree with it'll be interesting
to see in the comments which one of these you guys prefer?
- Yeah, I mean, there's also a massive bottle of the BRS
extra thick to 200.
It's about 280 grams or so.
So, I've wanted, I've thought about using that too
but it's just too much I don't go through enough.
- It's about the size of a pumpkin.
You're gonna means you're going to be fragging all the time.
- Yeah.
- Right but yes, definitely big option out there as well.
- [Instructor] So the cheapest option of
all the glues that we sell
this is always a big one in 2019.
So which one is it?
- [Narrator] Yeah, this one was the BRS extra thick in the
giant 280 gram bottle.
Like I said, this one is 10 and a half cents per gram
which makes it about 10 cents per gram
cheaper than some of the next available ones.
But again, 280 grams, you have to be able
to go through it, it's pretty big.
- It's not cheaper if you use any less than half of it.
- It's true.
- So you really got to be able to go through all that glue.
- Yeah.
- So the next cheapest option without buying that giant size
is actually the BSI 50 grams of this
this is about a 20 gram tube looks like
So just imagine two and a half times bigger than this
so not as big as that popcorn size
but also still pretty big.
But at 21 cents a gram so know you're always saving money
when you buy more right
and it gets more and more expensive as you add
more packaging in.
But those are the two most cost effective options.
What is thickest super glue of 2019
Which one is it?
- Yeah, we put a bunch of these on a, you know,
black platform and we squeeze them out to kind of see the
consistency and how they pulled out
or whether they're not they pulled out
really important to me because when I'm fragging corals
I want this stuff to stay on the top of my frag plug
so I can stick a coral in it,
get it wet, have it dry quickly
and then go into the water.
In which case the thickest standing one was actually
the PolypLab stuff.
There's little tiny PolypLab premium coral frag glue.
- Yeah, so this kind of surprised me
It actually used this before.
So this i thought was the thickest of all of them.
But right behind that was the BSI
and then the Maxspect Coral gun
and then right behind that was the BRS extra thick
- Yeah.
- And then after that it gets a little bit thinner
and some of them actually kind of pull out
so you know which one is best for you.
But if you're looking for the thickest of the bunch out
here, it's actually this premium glue from PolypLab
best for that purpose in 2019.
At your best 2019 is concerns to dries
or cures the fast.
Which one is it?
- Yeah, so we laid all of these out
and none of them really are immediate
and you probably shouldn't expect that to begin with
but there are some that start to dry faster than the others.
And what we saw was the polypLab the coral frag glue
and the EcoTech frag glue started to build rough,
hard edges around each dollar
- Much faster.
Yeah, so, you know, again,
the gels tend to take a while to dry,
some even take as much as overnight
if it's just in the air
but once you put in the water
they all tend to dry up much faster.
But if you're looking for the fastest drying of the gels
it was absolutely these two.
So easiest to use it 2019
I'm going to give an honorable mention here actually
for the Maxspect Coral Glue Gun,
if you're gonna do like hundreds of frags
- Yeah.
- It's pretty cool, though there was a review on there
that we actually looked at.
It's kind of looks like a caulk gun.
So the only different thing here was
that it does build up pressure
and you'll see a little extra come out each time
but if you manage that this was a really cool
and you know definitely an honorable mention
for easiest to use if you're doing like hundreds
and hundreds of frags.
- Yeah right.
- Very cool tool.
- yeah but easiest to use in my vote
and I guess we decided together to
has got to be these 20 grams.
So we're talking about size differences
here is the 120 grand tubes.
These are easy to work with.
You mean you get these thicker type glues like the BRS
an extra thick or like this IC gel from BSI
and I can use in a manipulated underwater
because it comes out in a you know a thick glob
this stuff is just easy to use
and I don't have to worry
I can go through this you know in a few settings.
Yeah I don't have this big giant thing
that's hard to get through.
- Yeah so for me again like I use glue underwater a lot
and so it's funny that you said you barely never do that
- Right.
- But if you're like me I use it a lot.
And so when you use it underwater that big thing is
when I squeeze it stays its form shape in this (murmurs)
here if you let go with sucks up in water
- Right.
- It is almost impossible to keep even pressure on it.
- Yeah.
- So these are not good for underwater.
The other thing is actually
it takes so little effort to get the glue to come out
of one of these, I can use the right amount
and much easier.
- Right.
- Whereas this, I'm really kind of squeeze to get it out.
So for me, this is arguably maybe of your favorites
and you can share in the comments below.
But these 20 gram tubes are definitely the easiest
and maybe if you're only doing a few right behind it
for the same reasons
this (murmurs) here
but if you're doing lots of frags, you know,
opening a dozen of these at a time seems kind of wasteful
and a lot of work actually.
What's your best glue for aquascaping 2019
aquascaping meaning that you could probably use a lot of it,
you're probably gonna use it underwater and what not.
- Yeah.
- And, for me, I like using superglue for aquascaping way
better and epoxy because it's way easier to hide this stuff.
- Okay.
- You know, I'm just putting it around the edges
where the two points connect
and making sure that it kind of locks them together
and you don't see that ugly colored epoxy
for two years afterward
- Yeah.
- Yeah, which one?
- I mean, this is one where especially since you're using
quite a bit amount
where those smaller sizes like the four gram
or maybe even the 20 gram might not get it done.
But the BSI IC Gel 50 gram
the larger version.
That one is just about right it does not a bottle
where I'm not sucking in water
if I release, squeeze it underwater
and release it, you know, tensile strength is easy to get
the gel out of there.
And just the thickness alone makes it like I said in the
last one, it makes it easier to work with underwater.
- Yeah, so 50 gram IC BSI gel,
probably the best for aquascaping.
It's the best in Show of 2019.
This is the first time that Randy and I just didn't come to
the same conclusion.
- Yeah.
- So we're going to share them both.
It's just glue, you'll be able to pick
which one for you.
Which one did you think Well?
- I mean, for me, it comes it's the BSI IC gel.
I've used it a lot
and the 50 grams size is probably my go to
I like these 20 grams sizes 22 cents per gram on the larger
one just makes it you know
cost effective for what I want to do
and I'm a big, big fan of the tube.
I don't know all in all it has the thickness that I like.
It's my ball.
- All right, so I'm just gonna go with the BRS one surprise,
surprise, but you know what?
It's just like the 20 grams tube size
end the story this is the right.
This is where i go to
is what I use almost every time
and it's just the cheapest, it works for me.
And so I don't need anything super fancy for glue.
I mean, we haven't even wasted any time
putting a label on it.
- Right?
(laughs loudly)
- So it's just the cheapest option in the size
and form factor I like to use.
The only other thing I'll say out there
is if you're only doing a few at a time
during our testing in here
I think this guy kind of won over my heart.
(murmurs)
Yeah, you know, it's I you know,
I saw it at first I'm like,
Well, why don't they just go buy stuff from
you know home depot or Lowes or what not.
And actually, it was so thick.
It's definitely different than the little tubes
that you'd pick up your standard hardware store.
- Right.
- And so if I'm only going to do a handful of them,
these little tiny disposable tubes
actually were pretty nice.
And I don't have to worry about saving it for later
or poking holes or keep cutting off the tip or what not.
So any one of these, you'll be fine
but those are our favorites.
And so what would you like to see for 2020?
So what can we approve for 2020?
I want to say really, the first thing is on the BRS team
here, I don't know why we don't sell a 50 gram tube this
size and I also don't know why we don't sell like little
glue like this
but we should to 2020
also, you know, I don't know if this is a crazy idea or not.
But I like I don't know why that you couldn't get like a
coral line color of super glue.
- It seems like an easy thing to do mix a little color
and make it slightly purple.
I mean, it'll probably be clear still.
You might see it but probably not as much as you would just
straight clear and it kind of goes cloudy out in the water.
So purple, that'd be awesome.
- I'd love to see somebody told that maybe they already have
I don't know but I have never seen coral color line
super glue so big really cool.
- Yeah.
- Also it'd be fun to see some more tools like this
like really think about the application
and how we're using it.
- Yeah.
- The Maxspect coral team did a really good job
in that the super glue
especially if you're doing lots of them.
And to be honest, we went through a lot of glues in the
website and I think we use step up bringing
we get rid of some of the irrelevant ones
because some of them are like not the best
are little too liquid and don't really serve
the purpose super well.
- Yeah.
- So that's how I like to see for 2020.
- So I mean, you are It was funny that you were surprised
I've never seen this stuff.
I've never used this stuff underwater before.
And just reviewing the BRS 160 video where you did that.
I'm surprised I never saw before.
So if you wanna see how to use this superglue underwater
like Ryan did and do some aquascaping
and things like that, check out this video right here.
- So the way that works by the way
and you're gonna see it is that you take a little bit of
glue put on the frag, then put it into the epoxy
and then put a little glue on the rock
and then you put the proxy into the glue.
But when you see it all come together you can see exactly
why this is probably one of the best ways to get permanent
frags and get them in there fast
so like you don't have to hold on to it forever waiting
for it to dry.
- Yeah.
- it works out super well.
So go ahead and see right up here.