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[Deckape]

Very pretty! It doesn't look like it would hold that weight, but I guess I just over engineered mine, lol.

The Titanic thought she was over engineered too. IMO there is no such thing. I like your stand better.

 

[huma-huma]

Very good point deckapem IMO I would build a stand for that tank, its way too big and gonna look too nice to not have a good looking stained wooden stand for

 

[e_murray]

Well today I cleaned it up really good. Thank goodness for vinegar!

I noticed the two front seals were a bit worn, so I scraped them off... I will seal em back up tomorrow.

100% silicone right? Long as it don't have mold preventer or whatever right?

 

[zparticle]

Yeah read the label VERY carefully. It might be worth just paying a little more to get officially "aquarium safe" silicone.

 

[e_murray]

I read online somewhere that this GE silicone was good.

 

[zparticle]

I just used the same thing on a slate decoration and it killed a bunch of my fish. In really fine print somewhere there was something about mold and mildew killer. The color on my tube was green though, it was silicone II clear.

 

[e_murray]

This is silicone 1, says nothing about mildew resist

I think I looked at the 2 and it said mildew resistant...

 

[e_murray]

It was a impulse buy, I'm gonna look at ace hardware tomorrow, I read online they sell aquarium silicone in a big tube like this.

 

[e_murray]

I also read it must cure 48 hours or will harm fish...

 

[e_murray]

Found what I was talking about with silicone 1, It is safe. So if anyone can use this info see link below.

http://www.aquariumadvice.com/forums/f20/ge-silicone-i-diy-cave-101060.html

 

[Deckape]

Found what I was talking about with silicone 1, It is safe. So if anyone can use this info see link below.

http://www.aquariumadvice.com/forums/f20/ge-silicone-i-diy-cave-101060.html

Thanks! I wanna do some slate projects. My buddy has a bunch of slate and will give me as much as I want.

 

[Smitty]

I did my sump with GE 1 and then had MrX post up that he didn't think it was safe, then did more research and couldn't find anything recent that it was safe so I re-did my sump with aquarium stuff... it was more expensive but I didn't want to risk anything... but I was building a reef tank and figured if I had 1k in live stock it wasn't worth risking an extra 15.00 for known good silicone...

I'll follow along so I'll know for the future

 

[e_murray]

:-(

I read LOTS of articles and everyone says that GE1 is ok.

Guess well find out. I resealed the front corners with it.

 

[Smitty]

Well, I'm not saying it is bad. I did find people saying they used it, and I have one local guy who even used GEII for his 125g reef tank and it has been up and running for 9 months without a problem so you are most likely good to go.

 

[e_murray]

I hope so, my fishies are about 10 years old!

Building the stand tonight, well starting it anyways!

 

[Ricksreef]

Oh man,you got that huge reef ready tank with sump,you just gotta get or build a stand to put the sump in and go Reef to start with.I'm jealous.LOL

 

[e_murray]

Leak testing! Can't wait to set it up!

 

[BlackMagic]

You just waste.280g of water, lol
Nice tank btw, I use to own a 300g and it was a pain ... lol

 

[Naturesbarbiegirl]

Wow Huge Tank!!! and I really thought that the new 80 Gallon Tank Im getting tonight was a huge tank.

 

[huma-huma]

That's 28 gallons for a 10% pwc....or the equivalent of a nano lol