Michael Rodriguez

Last I heard, the GE silicone that doesn't have the mold inhibitor ingredients in them are labeled to the effect of not being aquarium safe for a couple of reasons. -They sell silicone products to AGA Perfecto and other aquarium brands and therefore cannot compete with them -Some silicone types are adhesive type, and some are sealant type silicone. I believe GE I and II products are the sealant type silicone. This shouldn't be a problem for you though seeing as how acrylic doesn't really adhere to silicone well anyways. The silicone ends up becoming a pocket for the acrylic to be permanently fixed in place. Although this is not because of adhesion.

Great! Now you can keep a harlequin shrimp These guys are like cockroaches... There's always a crack somewhere they can slip into your tank through...

They use it because it is very stable, usually won't warp or expand/contract to much, and it's cheap. Personally, I hate the stuff for any application involving water. Plywood is much better but the veneers on low quality boards will end up parting from the base also. I thought it was 12"-18" from the bulb to the water line.?.?

Thanks for all the responses guys. I used for a Aquarium business that had three locations in Florida. They definitely get a lot more as far as livestock than here. But that is to be expected. However, from the two shops that I have seen here, AquaTek, and Riverside, they seem to try to hit a lot of the basic type aquariums (guppies and gravel) all the way up to the more elaborate systems. I saw some good brand name dry-goods in there that I would never see in the shops that I worked at like Giesseman, and Precision Marine. The only brand that we carried outside of Coralife, Red Sea, Current and other norm type aquarium goods was Octopus. So I am excited to get going here. I have a bunch of tanks that I am planning to use to grow corals and breed fish. Mike

I just moved from Florida and wanted to introduce myself to the area!