:::UPDATE:::

So the other day (Sunday) I gave the whole Vaseline thing a try... I first peeled the background off my glass, cleaned it and the glass, applies a super thin layer of Vaseline to the background, and applied it to the glass. First thing I noticed was boy did it stick. After finally getting it where I needed it I started to squeeze all of the air bubbles out with this cool thing I picked up from Lowes. I guess it's what they use for wallpaper or something but works really well... Needless to say I tried and tried and couldn't get it to look right at all... The Vaseline just didn't want to work it's way out. One thing I noticed was when looking at it straight on it looked great, but because I have a corner bow front tank and I am doing the back and sides of my tank you can really see the imperfections. It was so bad that I took it off, cleaned the glass, and went back to Petco to grab some more Sea View and another background piece to apply it on my tank... I have gone from blue to black. I really appreciate the info and the lessons learned while applying my background......

So here is what I have learned. If you are like most people and are just doing the back of a tank, go with the Vaseline. It sticks a ton better and will stay on there until the life of the tank, unless you want to just pull it off... But if your tank has the angles as mine then you might want to go with the Sea View. It's not as sticky as you'd like it to be, but you won't see the imperfections on the angles that you would see with Vaseline. Just my $0.02.