oO SKIPPY Oo Posted May 27, 2011 Report Share Posted May 27, 2011 I have recently made a half tank background and glued it in place with the aquarium safe silicon on thursday - how long should i wait before planting and filling with water ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bishop Posted May 28, 2011 Report Share Posted May 28, 2011 I know the sellys stuff is 7 days for structural but you will be fine with 48 hours for gluing backgrounds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oO SKIPPY Oo Posted May 28, 2011 Author Report Share Posted May 28, 2011 sweet - i need to get this tank up and running so that might be tomorrows job just to give it one more day - now to work out how im going to plant this thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GZ_Loach Posted May 28, 2011 Report Share Posted May 28, 2011 I gave mine 3 days Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spoon Posted May 28, 2011 Report Share Posted May 28, 2011 it will depend on how thick it is id give it at least 3 days as theres nothing worse than the background popping up once you have filled the tank trust me i know it happened to me on many occaisions because i was impatient Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GZ_Loach Posted May 28, 2011 Report Share Posted May 28, 2011 I dissolved the poly after the resin set on my background, too heavy to lift up :smln: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oO SKIPPY Oo Posted May 28, 2011 Author Report Share Posted May 28, 2011 it will depend on how thick it is id give it at least 3 days as theres nothing worse than the background popping up once you have filled the tank trust me i know it happened to me on many occaisions because i was impatient my wife would say i have no patentice so may 3 or 4 days is how long i should wait Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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