Does building a paludarium destroy your tank?

[NuYorker]

Ive wanted to build a paludarium for a while now so I choose a 125 gallon tank as I want a decent Water area, but my question is will the building of a paludarium essentially make my tank useless for other purposes? Between the silcone glueing of the corkbark as a background, the silcone gluing of PVC, eggcrate for the false bottom, andf the use of great stuff expanding foam seams like it may stay stuck to the tank. Im just wondering if I start is there no return?

[x5tr41ghtj4ck3t]

In my experience, GS foam is very easy to remove if directly sprayed on the glass. Silicon is also easy to scrap away with a flat blade. Together (Gs foam on silicon on glass), I have no experience with. The general idea is that if you give yourself room to be able to get behind your work and GENTLY remove silicone/gs foam, you should be okay.

An example of complete loss: I have corkbark tile siliconed to the back of my tank. I wanted to replace one of them with a different styled tile, but could not get underneath it in any way. I have been unable to remove it. You MUST be able to get behind it, and you MUST be careful!

My previous tank configuration had a piece of glass siliconed over the previous owner's drilled hole. When I decided I wanted to make use of it (canister filter) I did everything I could to get that piece of glass up, but that silicon adheres like no other! Glass on one side of silicon is fine, but on two.... it felt like I was trying to drive the putty knife through a brick wall. I got it up eventually, but there were many glass shards, and some of the glass chipped away from the drilled hole.

[NuYorker]

Thanks, for the back Im planning on useing the flatest pieces I can find, my local petstore carries pieces of it and charges by the LB they are not tile. I want to strart my tank next month and when I do I will post a build log of my 125 gallon paludarium.