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I'm in the midst of a build in which I'm going to attach ghostwood directly to glass -- no background -- something like I did in my InSitus, where I learned that silicone on ghostwood isn't a very strong bond. The wood will only have a couple/few small contact points along the length of the piece, so siliconing directly to the glass won't work. The wood will not contact the substrate, so the mounts have to carry all the weight of the wood, plants, and frogs partying like it's 1999 (a lame garage band, a keg, maybe a bouncy house for the froglets...you get the idea). This is in an ExoTerra, and the wood will be a viv-filling sized branch (likely, a few screwed together), a decent handful of pounds.
I'm considering two ideas (well, three whittled down to two):
1) Silicone some sort of mount to the glass, to which I can attach the wood using fishing line or zip ties. I don't know of any such mount, though. Ideally it would be clear-ish and/or small enough to be not too noticeable. Something like a small stainless steel eye hook with a glass base.
2) I thought to screw the wood to another piece of glass or acrylic and then silicone that sheet to the viv glass (and cover the sheet with a little cork mosaic or something, or not). But, if I can drill glass and attach to it, I'll just do something like that with the viv itself. So, option 2 is to drill a couple small holes in the viv glass, and then feed zip ties (or fishing line around some sort of stopper) directly through the holes, and then a dab of silicone to seal it against water leaking out.
Any ideas or advice? I'm thinking option 2 is going to be cleanest and strongest, but I'm not sure here.
I'm considering two ideas (well, three whittled down to two):
1) Silicone some sort of mount to the glass, to which I can attach the wood using fishing line or zip ties. I don't know of any such mount, though. Ideally it would be clear-ish and/or small enough to be not too noticeable. Something like a small stainless steel eye hook with a glass base.
2) I thought to screw the wood to another piece of glass or acrylic and then silicone that sheet to the viv glass (and cover the sheet with a little cork mosaic or something, or not). But, if I can drill glass and attach to it, I'll just do something like that with the viv itself. So, option 2 is to drill a couple small holes in the viv glass, and then feed zip ties (or fishing line around some sort of stopper) directly through the holes, and then a dab of silicone to seal it against water leaking out.
Any ideas or advice? I'm thinking option 2 is going to be cleanest and strongest, but I'm not sure here.