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All purpose silicone?
All purpose silicone?
Does anyone happen to know if this is safe for my new crabitat?
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Re: All purpose silicone?
As far as I know it needs to be aquarium safe silicone.jdauby09 wrote:Does anyone happen to know if this is safe for my new crabitat?
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Re: All purpose silicone?
If it doesnt say aquariums on it i wouldn't risk it as companies do add chemicals used in treating mould for example.
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Re: All purpose silicone?
All the aquarium forums and terrarium forums seem to agree GE silicone 1 is safe once fully cured. There is some debate over the GE silicone 2.
I used it to stick rocks in my water dishes and haven't had any issues.
What do you plan on using it for?
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I used it to stick rocks in my water dishes and haven't had any issues.
What do you plan on using it for?
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To put rocks on a ramp for pools and to glue hooks to walls to hang baskets...Brian_T wrote:All the aquarium forums and terrarium forums seem to agree GE silicone 1 is safe once fully cured. There is some debate over the GE silicone 2.
I used it to stick rocks in my water dishes and haven't had any issues.
What do you plan on using it for?
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Re: All purpose silicone?
I recently picked up a 125G tank from another member here. They had holes drilled in the trim to ziptie things. I think this idea is better than using silicone to permanently stick hooks... Or using command strips/hooks that fail.jdauby09 wrote:To put rocks on a ramp for pools and to glue hooks to walls to hang baskets...Brian_T wrote:All the aquarium forums and terrarium forums seem to agree GE silicone 1 is safe once fully cured. There is some debate over the GE silicone 2.
I used it to stick rocks in my water dishes and haven't had any issues.
What do you plan on using it for?
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Edit - holes on the inside lip of the trim. Not through the glass of tank. This will shatter the glass.
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Re: All purpose silicone?
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As long as the tank is empty it should work. Just use as little as possible so it cures quickly. The tube in your picture is probably way to much.
I don't know how heavy the baskets will be but there's also something called RTV 108 if you need much stronger bond. This again is from reef aquarium forums, so I don't have personal experience with it. (I saved lots of notes when I built my first Hab)
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As long as the tank is empty it should work. Just use as little as possible so it cures quickly. The tube in your picture is probably way to much.
I don't know how heavy the baskets will be but there's also something called RTV 108 if you need much stronger bond. This again is from reef aquarium forums, so I don't have personal experience with it. (I saved lots of notes when I built my first Hab)
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The baskets are gonna be for the shell shop and moss pits everywhere maybe a ee pit...the shell shop would be the heaviest and that will only be a couple inches of the sub...I don't want to do anything permanent to the tank cause I inherited it when my dad passed and his dream was to always turn it in to a salt water aquarium and I would love to be able to make that a reality for him down the road...
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