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Re: Aquarium Silicone

To: Aquatic-Plants at actwin_com
Subject: Re: Aquarium Silicone
From: IDMiamiBob at aol_com
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 03:11:10 EDT

K9AUB writes:


<< To be safe, I always 
buy silicone cement manufactured specifically for aquariums.  Hartz makes an 
aquarium cement, and so does Top Fin, among others >>

Not really.  They buy it from Dow Corning and remarket it under a different 
name, and at significant mark-up.  A couple years ago, I wrote several 
letters and made several phone calls.  Dow is under a "vow of silence" to 
admit to which of their silicone products it really is.

Bob Dixon
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