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Originally Posted by WarDog
I understand Dave's reply in regards to seam strength. Alternatively, you could go with black silicone which should help make the bubbles less visible (if any)... or perhaps Concept should be looking for a different silicone than GE SCS1200. Every Concept tank I have seen with clear silicone has bubbles, and its always bugged the hell out of me.
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Oh Warren we have tried
have tired the Momentive RTV108 series(more expensive and really never saw any difference between the two)
Aqueon silicone no where as strong as the scs1200 from GE
Looked into a new UV instant cure silicone but they are not available in north america yet and let's not even talking about cost lol
What we have found from over the years is that over the winter months there is less bubbles the occur in the silicone making us come to a conclusion temper and humidity play a role in the forming of bubbles.
So yes there is away around the bubbles issues but there would also come with cost associated with it, having to build a large room to house 10 96x48 and 2 120x60 build tables and have a way to lower temp and increase humidity would not be cheap. I guess all I am saying is if we are at around the same price as red sea tanks or the elos tanks could we compete with them.
Having a perfect tank cost money and I am not sure if it is worth us trying to archive that compared too what we are offering now and yes black silicone hides a lot of the imperfection with the manufacturing of the tanks.
One last thing, if you seen any of our tanks you will realized that most of the bubbles happen on the bottom seam and the reasoning is the bottom glass is cut smaller then the sides allowing us to square the tank better but also happens to have a thicker silicone seam. More silicone equals more chances of bubbles forming on that seam
Hope that helps
Thanks Dave