I agree with Hoppy - your article has seriously turned me away from ever even thinking about building a tank like that (my hair colour was changing while i was reading
). NO - thats not a bad thing (making me think about building a tank - not my hair).
It wouldn't be in my budget anyways.
It was well written though and contains a lot of great information !! Well done.
Now i don't want to take away from this great article by asking a (somewhat) unrelated question. (if it appears that way i'll delete this post later)
But I thought i ask in here because obviously you really did your homework when i comes to silicone.
Whenever people talk about reapplying silicone in old tanks that developed a leak - they mention that you cant just cut out one seam (the leaky one) and reapply silicone there - you have to redo the whole tank. It's because (supposably) old silicone doesnt stick well to new - and you just end up having a leak where the old meets the new.
Now you obviuously did the opposite - working on a seperate panel every 2 days (or more if humidity was lower). Basically having new+cured silicone meeting in a lot of areas.
Going from your experience with silicone - is it really necessary to redo the whole tank if you have a leak somewhere ?
Thanks. (P.S.: My native language isn't english so excuse it if my post is unnecessarily lengthy cause i am sometimes not able to get to the point as quickly)