Silicon sealant (cheaper than in fish stores)

["Barry J. Cooper" <bjc3 at cornell_edu>]

Forwarding this message. Brian, you may also want to sub under you U.
Regina address.
BJC

Patrick (Pat) Wohlwend wrote:

>
>And may I add? "Whilst on this subject," when you need to buy some of
>that aquarium sealant, you know that clear apoxy stuff that is very
>expensively sold in the fish stores and labeled as such can be bought
>in paint aisles (in Wal Mart or K Mart, etc.) in big tubs at less cost
>than the little volumn sold in fish stores.
>

A word of caution. Some commercial silicon sealants have a fungicide
added. I know someone who recently made a whole lot of tanks using a
"cheap" commercial grade silicon sealant and killed off a every fish
that was put into the tanks because the fungicide leached out into the
water. He has had to strip down the tanks and rebuild them. By the way,
I presume you are referring to silcon sealant and not actual epoxy
cement.

Brian Watters

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