great stuff question

[ubstrong]

wow, you're an artist with the great stuff. I put mine on egg crate, same reason, too permanant on the glass. might want to use that expensive aquarium for an aquarium again someday. I put the coco fiber directly onto the wet great stuff. didn't stick. put spray glue on it.. didn't stick. put black silicone on and tried the coco again .. didn't stick. what's the secret. how do you get that great thick brown coco fiber layer it looks like everyone has ??

[twitch_doberman]

i'm actually trying peat moss with black silicone. i guess if you don't put the coco fiber or peat moss on the silicone quick enough it dries to quickly to bond to it. I'll be trying here within the hour sent my bf to the store for a caulking gun i'll take pics and let you know how it goes

[chibisan]

if you're using the expanded brick coco bedding, then the bedding needs to be dry before you put it on. Or else it doesn't stick I guess. I just did my test run on an extra square piece of acrylic today to get a hang of it and it worked out perfectly. Yesterday I put on the great stuff and then today I used silicone and cocobedding, and it stuck. So maybe yours isn't dry?
Mine took about 3 days to completely dry out, and not all of it was completely dry by then. But I was just air drying it.

[twitch_doberman]

i've heard also that people will bake the co co bedding to dry it out alot quiker. so far no problems with the peat moss other than my caulking gun broke and the bottoms of the silicone popped off XD. so i've just been spreading it on with my hand.. with of course a glove. at the silicone dries the peat moss is dries out even more and is sticking. i have most of it done i just need to buy some more gloves and silicone. maybe i'll get it done tomorrow or tuesday since i work tomorrow. i really want it done by wednesday since i'm going out of state friday morning. post some pictures if you guys can i'd love to see what yours looks like finished

[Rainfrog]

I find it works well to put silicone in very small patches and cover with alot of your chosen cover. then kind of press it in and shake off the excess, moving on to the next patch.

[Waterkeeper]

We did my first coco bedding background last night for my buddy's 90 gal setup. we expanded the Zoo Med Eco earth in some super hot water in a 5 gal bucket when we got to work at noon. by about 6:30 we started putting it in the oven to dry it out. We set the oven at 350 and spread the earth out on cookie sheets at the TOP rack of the oven. stirred it twice and it was all good to go, we had 90% of the background covered by 11:30pm and called it a night.

[chibisan]

yeah, I figured I could put it in the oven to dry it out, except I'm doing the vivarium for work (at an aquarium) so I didn't have an oven unless I brought it home, and I didn't really feel like doing that, so I just let it sit out.
Was doing a practice run so my boss kinda has an idea of what I plan on doing.
I'd love to see pics of what the moss looks like though!

[twitch_doberman]

I'm done! whoo hoo. just need a longer light and a cage top. i'll also be adding some more wood pieces and some more colorful plants. can't wait until it all grows in. tried to get some decent pictures but the lighting was sucky.

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[twitch_doberman]

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[Rainfrog]

Do you have a drainage layer in there? I cant tell from the photos.