So I was then at the point where I had to do the coco fiber and silicone part. I bought WAY TOO much coco fiber
. 6 of those condensed bricks... I baked a few bricks worth to dry them, but that still took a few days.
I switched to brown silicone because it seemed like it made more sense. No one really explained how hard this part was :/.
That stuff is a friggin HUGE MESS. spray a bunch and smear. Too bad half of it ends up sticking to your glove and then it just pulls away from the GS, then you bump into the glass and get silicone all over that and.. etc etc. its just really messy is all and hard to get into the cracks. I used probably 7 tubes of Brown Silicone on the background and 2 bricks of coco fiber.
I also decided to use river rock to line the pond area, so I just stuck rocks to it after covering it with silicone. I again had to flip the thing over to get the rocks on the sides, or they were just sliding or falling off. It is also really hard to get the coco on the walls if the wall you are working on isnt on the ground. So it took a few days of curing to flip it around on the sides I needed it on.
