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Starboard
- Thread starter comatose
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It's fairly dense stuff and you'll have rock piled on it so I really don't think you need to glue it down.
If you did want to fasten it down, I suppose you could just use a bit of silicone. Any aquarium-safe silicone would do. I've used the GE Type-I Window & Door stuff (blue tube) before with no problems (don't use Type-II or anything with mildew inhibitors in it).
If you did want to fasten it down, I suppose you could just use a bit of silicone. Any aquarium-safe silicone would do. I've used the GE Type-I Window & Door stuff (blue tube) before with no problems (don't use Type-II or anything with mildew inhibitors in it).
tgfrench":o7n4gah8 said:silicon won't stick to starboard.
What makes you say that? People on other boards are reporting using silicone around the edges and also to glue substrate to it.
comatose":3qmohtm6 said:i thought i read in another threed that after a few months or more that the corners would start to curl a bit.
I think as long as it's thick enough you shouldn't have a problem. How thick is the stuff you bought?
FWIW, the guy who started the whole starboard thing doesn't have his glued down and his tank has been running for quite a while now (maybe almost a year now?). He hasn't reported any warping/curling problem.
You might want to check with him...
http://www.thereeftank.com/forums/showthread.php?t=39139
HTH
has anyone tried gluing the surface of the starboard and pushing crushed coral into it to give it a natural look? And then you can still clean the bottom without sucking up the crushed coral on the bottom since the it is glued to the starboard.
Any advice or and ideas on this ?
Any advice or and ideas on this ?
I remember reading somewhere that the only thing that seemed to work was using PVC cement to adhere the substrate to the Starboard worked. Basically they took the bottle of PVC cement and spread it over the Starboard and then squashed the substrate into it. They had to work with small sections at a time as the stuff dried pretty quick. IIRC they also tried silicone and it didn't stick long term.
Shane
Shane
you know what, i have to make some cuts in my starboard to fit in the tank and around the overflows maybe with the cuts i'll try different glues with the coral and drop it in some water and see how it holds up.
meanwhile keep the ideas coming so i can try different things and post my findings here at a later date cause it doesn't look like to many have experimented with this yet.
meanwhile keep the ideas coming so i can try different things and post my findings here at a later date cause it doesn't look like to many have experimented with this yet.
comatose":1d6aj35t said:has anyone tried gluing the surface of the starboard and pushing crushed coral into it to give it a natural look?
Yes. Try here:http://www.thereeftank.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35085&highlight=starboard
i got my starboard and made my cuts, on the scrap pieces i in tried some aquarium chalk on a 6" square piece let it dry and i was able to peel off the chalk in one piece with no effort at all, next i tried pvc glue heavy duty(clear) waited for that to dry and again peeled it off with a little more effort in one piece, next i notice how smooth the starboard was and decided to get a 60 grit sandpaper put it on my small orbital sander and sanded the whole piece, added the pvc glue again and it was very hard to pull up and if i did it would only tear off in very small pieces, so thats the route i took, it looks great, it's been sitting outside for a little over a week now to let the glue get hard and to leetch out all the impurities, also ran the water from the garden hose over it.
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