RE: [GSAS-Member] GE silicone

["Hess, Clay A" <clay.a.hess@boeing.com>]

Or just pull the rocks out of the tank and bleach them that way.  Unless
you glue the rocks to the tank too.  Bleaching large tanks is an
involved job if you have fish that live in them.

-----Original Message-----
From: welenofsky@comcast.net [mailto:welenofsky@comcast.net] 
Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 2:35 PM
To: Greater Seattle Aquarium Society member chat
Subject: RE: [GSAS-Member] GE silicone


Yeah, but you can bleach it out if you empty the tank of the critters.

Susan

-------------- Original message -------------- 

> Trish,
> 
> One other note on a silicone. It takes on the coloration of the
> chemicals you put in the water over time too. So, if you think the 
> silicone is going to be seen, keep this in mind. Specifically,
silicone 
> will take on a milky haze, or a green tint, or a blue tint depending
on 
> the chemicals you use in the water. And, this is true for as long as 
> you have the silicone in your tank.......it can pick up the coloration

> at any time. 
> 
> Clay
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul M. Wallace [mailto:pwallace@u.washington.edu] 
> Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 1:03 PM 
> To: 'Greater Seattle Aquarium Society member chat' 
> Subject: RE: [GSAS-Member] GE silicone 
> 
> 
> If you need a lot buy the size that works with a caulking gun.
> 
> Example:
>
http://www.drsfostersmith.com/product/prod_display.cfm?pcatid=3963&N=200

> 4+11
> 3159
> 
> 
> Thanks everyone for replying to this. I will be going
> their tomorrow to the Puyallup store, and check it 
> out. I'll look at both of them, and see which gives 
> more for the money. Then I can start on my project 
> this weekend. 
> 
> I'll let it cure probably for a week before putting
> into the tank.It will be curing in the garage and it 
> isn' as warm in their. So this should be long enough 
> to cure, I think. 
> 
> Thanks again....I'll let you know how it turned out!
> If anyone wants to see pictures, let me know. 
> 
> Trish
> 
> 
> --- Darcey Harding wrote:
> 
> > The Home Depot brand is called "DAP." It comes in
> > a blue-green blister-pack 
> > package and I think was in the paints section. I got 
> > it at the Aurora Ave N 
> > store and I think it was about $5 for a 
> > toothpaste-sized tube. 
> > 
> > DAP Aquarium sealant 100% silicone
> > 
> > (it says "AQUARIUM" on the package about six times
> > and has a little drawing of a 
> > fish. :) 
> > 
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