Bassinkorea;3516074; said:
Riv D;3515870; said:
Riv D;3516093; said:
You can't see the tiles because the colored portion of the zoopoxy is covering it. (the pic was taken looking down into the tank).Tequila;3516314; said:
]Tequila;3516314; said:Awwwwww....... Again huh, the first layer didn't cure correctly so you decided to tile over the original spotty cured/uncured tiles with more tiles and more zoopoxy is that correct?
Riv D;3518858; said:
He coated over the tile job because (after the fact) he was concerned that the black silicone II stuff he used to bond the tiles would leach "mildew resistant" chemicals into the water and kill the fish. He became concerned about the mildew resistant additives after advice from someone else on here. Then someone else in this thread says that there really is no mildew resistant additives, silicone is naturally mildew resistant and its just a marketing ploy. Nice to know now huh?Tequila;3518948; said:Ok I went to this Zoopoxies website and looked up there products because I'm not really firmilar with there product. And this is the first thing I found:
BONDING
The 307 series of epoxies are excellent adhesives for bonding many types of materials including fiberglass, concrete, wood and metal. Properly prepare the surface by sanding, grinding or sandblasting prior to the application of the epoxy. These epoxies are not recommended for bonding to glass and most plastic surfaces.
But you used it to try and bond ceramic to glass, by why of top coating instead of bonding or cementing tiles to glass. In other words you placed the Zoopoxie on top instead of between the tile and the glass. I don't recall reading where it says to use this product as a coating to bond anything to anything else. Plus the stuff doens't work on glass!
Ok I think I understand what you where going for but you could have very easily used a dab of silicone between the glass and each tile. Or if you really wanted to go nutz, then coat the tank bottom with silicone and lay each tile in, waiting like a week for the stuff to dry and cure should have been enough, especailly if you used a fan. I just don't see why you went through all this hell and why you continue to go through it to have a somewhat unique looking tank bottom.
Riv D;3524228; said:
Tequila;3524804; said:Ok, I'm sorry to say I read through both above threads and I still CANNOT understand why you did what you. To me it just seems that you pick one train of thought an ran with it with blinders on. Without doing any research aside from asking total strangers in the thread what they thought as long as everything was going good. Then when one person popped on the thread page 3 and said/stated that he/she throught that the silicone II was bad. ("make sure the silicon has no anti fungus stuff or that might harm your fish")
Though knowone else paid it much attention with the exception of you, throughout the rest of the thread. You started another thread questioning the safety of a known company's product ("GE Silicone II Window & Door IS it Safe???"). After the first two responses you your screaming Nooooo, then when someone else said they don't think it a problem you completely ignore them. Someone else response by saying: ("I think not. Some people have used it with success"). And you just go into a full downward spiral cash and burn nose dive.
Did it never occur to you just to call GE and ask them. I mean who would know better GE or a bunch of faceless, nameless, varying levels of experienced avatars, I mean really now why didn't you just CALL GE, it's not like there an unknown company or new company.
If you think I'm being unfair or too harash or uncaring, that's ok it's your opinion your entitled to it. I'm sorry I have no answers or suggestion for you to try. Other than to say buy another tank and start again. This time though you may not want to glue everything into permanent place, until you can verify that all is well and that in the future you'll never wanna change it.
