Thanks Bill!

Ok So a small update. Things are moving slowly with the TiteBond III portion. Remaining patient and giving the glue time to dry has been the hardest part of this whole thing. My test section of glue on Silicone was a success. I moved to applying glue on the Silicone on the sides of the tank. This ends up being a weird sort of race.... You have to apply a small section of glue and then immediately apply the coco fiber. The glue doesn't stay where you apply it and will start to separate but putting the coco fiber down before that starts seems to be the key. Another interesting aspect to this is that once you have some glue with Coco fiber on it and go to put more glue down beside it you can not get them to over lap. So I ended up with small lines all over the side that I will have to cover when I do my 2nd coat. This isn't a major issue as I was planning on doing 2 coats anyways.

I will have more pictures tonight. Last night I got the glue on the back of the Terrarium and both sides. I applied the glue to one side and let it dry for 2 - 3 hours then turned the tank and repeated this process for all the sides. I did not attempt to remove any loose fiber from the sides as I turned it and did not notice any negative impact from doing this. When I get home the tank will have had over 24 hours of drying time with this last coat. My plan is to very very carefully remove excess five from the tank without disturbing the glue that is drying. The purpose of this is to remove the thick layer of fiber to allow the air to get to the glue more quickly.

I figure I have about 3 or 4 days of watching glue dry before I can access how much of a 2nd coat I need or not. Then we move onto testing the waterfall... I am not super excited about the water fall at the moment and have some additional planning to do on how i want to pull it off now that the small pond has been scrapped.

Here is the single photo i took last night before I wrapped up the gluing for the evening.

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