Im making a diy feau rock background for my 180g tonight (starting, anyway). I was wondering if the green polystyrene from lowes is aquarium safe. It hard to make out the color here, but it's light green.
The goal is to create a professional looking rock wall for my 180gallon planted tank. I started by cutting a series of abstract pieces from the green Styrofoam pictured above. I then toyed around with the cutouts for a while. Turns out, the boxcutter I bought proved utterly useless. I did what any reasonable individual would do and gave it to a small child. Just kidding. I opened it first. The only reasonable thing to do after that was taken care of was to find the sharpest mother****ing steak knife in my kitchen. Before we go any further, let me just say:
There you have it, my friends. Yeah. **** steak knives... I dont even eat meat. Ever. I didnt buy this knife, either. The little bastard just materialized in my silverwear drawer. I think all silverware just materializes in these strange drawers until you get married and some creep gives you a big box of them. No idea how that works.
Anyway, here are a few pictures of last nights work. I will post another update soon.
Beginnings of the first/largest precipace:
And then...
Next a few smaller ledges:
A bit of filler:
And then we throw it all together:
Some modetate tweaking and basic addition:
As you can see, it still needs a lot of work. I didnt realize how long it would take to get the pieces cut out. Some portions are glued at this point, but I saved the bulk of the work for today and this week~~
Probably a better shot. Figure 1 notice the steak knife stuck in the wall in figure 1. It is said that whoever draws it from its plaster sheathe will be the king of nothing for virtually 30 thirty seconds.
To go ahead and answer your question-- yes I feel like a jackass for deciding to add a rock wall after the tank is already set up. But you know what? Life is supposed to be hard. Says so in the prologue.