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FROG TAPE VS PAINTERS TAPE: IS IT WORTH THE MONEY?
Anyone who has done any painting knows that paint has a way of creeping under the edge of painter’s tape. There is nothing more frustrating than pulling your tape up and seeing a jagged, jacked up, uneven line. After all, we bought the tape to make us look like better painters, right? As a professional, this phenomena had always made me doubt the usefulness of tape in its entirety. Why not just learn to paint straight lines without it and save the $6 for a beer or lottery tickets (gotta play to win)?
The problem is, there are many situations when tape actually IS necessary…
Tape is needed to protect baseboard from the spritz that comes off of a roller when rolling walls. Tight corners that don’t quite have room for a full-sized brush need tape to mask off areas that don’t get painted. Door knobs and hinges are much easier to paint around when masked off with tape. And tape is needed, in some cases, to make wavy ceiling joints look straight. Homeowner may not realize how crooked the joint can be where the wall meets the ceiling. This is especially prevalent in older houses that have settled over many years. Even the steadiest professional hand will have a hard time making crooked ceiling joints look crisp and clean without the straight edge tape can provide.
Should we spend the extra dollar on frog tape?
In a word, YES. Using Frog Tape really does make a world of difference in the ease of the painting process. Despite the under the breath grumblings heard by old school painters around the globe, frog tape has “reinvented the wheel” of painter’s tape in the best way possible. By eliminating paint bleed (well, drastically improving it at the very least), Frog Tape is easily one of the best industry innovations in the last 20 years.
Re: What silicone/paint would be safe for frogs?
You can use a acrylic paint or silicone for covering the pipe. If you silicone it just cover the wet silicone with peat or coco fiber to really help it blend in.
1.2.0 Dendrobates tinctorius ‘Azureus’
1.1.0 Dendrobates Lamasi ‘Orange’
1.1.0 Dendrobates Ventrimaculatus ‘Understory Line’
0.3.0 Dendrobates leucomelas
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As always your mileage may vary!
I may or may not know what I’m talking about!
October 23rd, 2011 #3
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Re: What silicone/paint would be safe for frogs?
Ahhh! Excellent idea, I will do the silicone/coco fiber thing. I’ve seen folks do that for their backgrounds and such but I didn’t make the connection here. Thanks!
October 23rd, 2011 #4
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Re: What silicone/paint would be safe for frogs?
Make sure you have something to cover the top of the PVC so your crickets don’t find themselves down in the drainage layer 🙂
I uses a small piece of aquarium siphon hose with an adapter to connect another hose to for draining. I just cover it with a stone when not in use.
1.0.0 Red Eyed Leaf/ Frog – Agalychnis callidryas
1.1.1 Bumblebee Dart Frog – Dendrobates leucomelas
1.1.0 Dendrobates truncatus – Yellow Striped
1.1.1 Dendrobates tinctorius � Bakhuis Mountain
1.1.0 – Dendrobates tinctorius – Powder Blue
1.1.0 – Ranitomeya vanzolinii
October 23rd, 2011 #5
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