Because I have intentions to cover all the silicone so frogs will not come in direct contact with it, and because it is only used to apply my background foam, I went ahead with the GEII Black 100% silicone. There is still much debate over the safeness of it, but people do use it to cover their entire background with no ill effects (yet). I feel pretty confident the frogs and plants will be okay.

So I smeared the silicone onto the glass and applied my background. If I had to do this over again, I WOULD NOT be using this purple foam stuff. There are just way too many steps, too much room for error, ect. I made sure there was about a half inch on each side of the background that I would use GS to fill in. Unfortunately, the GS I used previously was no longer functional and I only got about half of it done. Yet another lesson, if you know you are going to need to use GS on multiple parts of the project, try to do it all at once.

And still, I think it turned out okay. I bought some more GS today, but couldn't find any net pots for the background, so I will be ordering them online. When they arrive, I can finish filling in the edges of the background with GS and apply the pots to the background. Then I'll attempt to clean up the rest of the extra silicone on the glass, then lay the TBIII/coco fiber layer.

I'll just be waiting on my net pots to come in.

Sorry for the awkward angle of this photo. The reflection from my windows was too much if I did it any other way. The background looks a little messy now, but I'm hoping once the TBIII/coco fiber is put down and the extra silicone cleaned off it will look a little better?

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