hi everybody welcome again to another episode of fish keeping to make a welcome to my channel okay
I had some leakage at the side my aquarium but I just took it upon myself to share this thing with
regards to aquariums and silicone now silicone said to fundamental purpose as it refers to your
one silicone serves as a gasket which should prevent the seepage of water to two different
spaces okay that gasket is made whenever silicone is placed on the pressure that's the reason why
the back side of your aquarium which is there this is the bottom please upwards right you
would actually place the glass at the top right and not in the middle because when it's on the
top the gasket is formed easily and it prevents leakage now as you can see here I'm presently
waiting on it to actually dry a bit before I do the next process and actually complete in
the ceiling now the silicone is between these two glass right the silicone is between this
glass and this glass silicon acts as a gasket as a seal as a robot a robot that space that is
actually seal so that water cannot go out and the aquarium will actually lose water okay so
this is my sixty gallon before you actually decide together right this is the the base
of it and I am trying to reseal it now in reseal it first thing I did was it was to place a bead
of silicone all around the edges right the top section especially the base of the aquarium this
glass this white glass was actually placed on it and it was actually chip dome as a means of
adding pressure on it now that's something else in which I need to speak about silicone actually
works best when it's under pressure so therefore if you're gonna place silicone on two pieces of
let's say metal glass or something of the sort and no pressure is actually there to actually
hold together you're gonna find that there it's not gonna hold properly right so what I need Sasa
ensure that pressure is placed on here I place a piece of tape on it no this will not be move on
till probably tomorrow when the gasket when the ceiling is actually queen or joy now when it is
dry what I'll do I flip it over on the other side and inside of the aquarium I place another bitter
sinkhole along side two glasses that's on the side and I miss and that will stay there for another
two days and then that will sit and everything should be okay as I said before silicone serve
two purposes one as I see it and two it serve as more of which you can actually hold two pieces of
items you get up we are the pressure however this this this this whole whole enough two different
pieces of items together will not read or write one points to know it regards to silicone is that
silicone actually dies from the outside in so you might see your mind does apply some silicone to
somewhere and what I realize is that the silicone outside feels very hard right as if it is Jaya you
know it's ready to be used however silicones drive on their outside in meaning that the outside might
feel very hard but the inside is very soft so it is it is suggested my person is using
silicone that you give silicone at least three to four days to really get to get out mu enjoy
cure right really cure it takes about probably about a week or more and during that period of
time you really get hide so therefore after that two hours after this after they still could have
become pure it would be very difficult for me to actually live there the two glasses apart you
know pry them apart I would have to use a razor blade and I will have to use a lot of strength
right because it has been cured it's best that you know add water to your aquarium after it has
been cured because during the the cooling during the the solidification process you know when the
silicone is getting hard if water is added to it it will actually adjust the the timeframe in which
it takes to harden as a result aa water might end up seep through it and you might not see it stick
to it in a form of some little bubbles and after the silicone have actually died and you had the
aquarium sitting there for a bit you will see some little bubbles at the side and you think
that it is just red while it is really and truly it is water and after a while water bubbles will
get larger and larger and then you end up with a really massive leaking experience this is five
minutes murder talk about five minutes worth of talk about silicone and I could go on and on right
now you have 100% silicone now you have silicone that is not a hundred percent billion aquariums
it is advised that it was a hundred percent silicon right check to see that it's a hundred
percent silicon before you actually purchase it to start your DIY project as far as glass
is concerned thank you very much for stopping by have an awesome day I'm waiting on this aquarium
to actually become cured and then I'll add my fish into it bye bye for now catch you next time peace