sleepydoc
Team RC
Ok, all us know that it doesn't, but I still see people claiming it does, or saying things like "I can pick up my sump but the baffles."
Below are some pics of the acrylic baffles that I had siliconed into my 40b sump. They had been in place for 3 years until I cut them out yesterday to move and re-do my sump. The top pic shows a strip of silicone along the edge of the baffle. In the bottom pic I simply pulled the silicone off with my fingers. It all came off in one piece, with no scraping. Note the completely clean surface of the silicone.
I could also lift the sump by the baffle, but only because there was a small lip of silicone over the top edge of the baffle, adhering to the glass wall of the sump, so when I pulled up on the baffle it would wedge against this. There was no contribution of the silicone adhering to the acrylic baffle.
Below are some pics of the acrylic baffles that I had siliconed into my 40b sump. They had been in place for 3 years until I cut them out yesterday to move and re-do my sump. The top pic shows a strip of silicone along the edge of the baffle. In the bottom pic I simply pulled the silicone off with my fingers. It all came off in one piece, with no scraping. Note the completely clean surface of the silicone.
I could also lift the sump by the baffle, but only because there was a small lip of silicone over the top edge of the baffle, adhering to the glass wall of the sump, so when I pulled up on the baffle it would wedge against this. There was no contribution of the silicone adhering to the acrylic baffle.