silicone

well i made the mistake of being careless when selecting the silcone to place my new divider up. well i selected silcone II. this has BioSeal in it and it kills all the bacteria but it will also kill your fish in about 2 days. so basically it was a hard lesson learn. i now have silcone I. :x :evil: :pale: :pale: :pale:

ahh man, did you lose any fish?

yeah 4 the first time (2 saulosi, 1 blue reef, 1 yellow lab)
2nd time (2 yellow labs, 2 flavus)
these were all juvies around 2" :(

ooooouch.

yeah i know

anyone know how long it takes the silicone to cure. the tube does not say anything about cure time. i was guessing 24 hrs.

yeah it has been suggested that i wait 48 hours. i really think that it depends on the size of the bead. 24 hour has worked for me.

I thought we used silicone 2 on my 115???? Nothing yet.

KMX wrote:

I thought we used silicone 2 on my 115???? Nothing yet.

i used silicone 2 in my 80 which i have all my fry in now but the only place i put was the bottom seam under the sand, and they have been fine so far. i am still going to change it out before i place my expensive fish in there.

Hmmm. Well i hope nothing goes wrong. Ive had the tank running for 3 weeks now. Im good so far.

i hope not. maybe big fish can handle it better but twice my babies died on day 2 with in 30 mins or each other. it was crazy!!!!

hmm this is interesting. i replaced an entire pain of glass in a 20l once and i used the number 2 and i never had an issue at all and it was a saltwater setup. i ran it like that for like a little over a year before the i stripped it completely apart and redid ALL of the silicone on the tank with some from the lfs

I always let mine cure for atleast 48 hours or till it passes the smell test. If you can't smell wet silicone it must be dry
But I have always used GE I never II

Yes use the GE I the window and door stuff not the kind for bathrooms. Get a can of denatured alcohol while your there its silicone's solvent.

Fern wrote:

Yes use the GE I the window and door stuff not the kind for bathrooms. Get a can of denatured alcohol while your there its silicone's solvent.

Fern: is that a "note to self" comment? Some advice learned first hand?

Ya..... I can't do anything without getting it alllllll over myself. I'm still getting urethane off of myself from yesterday

Its not the silicone. He had another problem. I seal tanks all the time using number2. Never a problem. Thats a complete resealing of the entire aquarium.

you can use silicone 1 or 2. Like mentioned earlier, you just have to make sure it is 100 percent silicone an make sure that there is NO BIOSEAL in it. It will kill all the bacteria in the tank. Number 1 or 2 doesn't matter though, the bio seal is what makes the difference

I just used silicone 2 with bio-seal to reseal the bottom of my tank