best colour bichir substrate

  • We are currently upgrading MFK. thanks! -neo
moonchild1970;1652371; said:
Where do you all buy your 3M ColorQuartz ? I can't locate any.

Also how do you paint the back of your tanks? Just use spraypaint?
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start here and select "I need a....distributor" and "the project is in this state...Washington". Looks like there's one in Seattle and one in Mukilteo.

I have a black background from Petsmart on my 210 (came w/ it) and just spray-painted the back of one of my 55's. the 20 I spray-painted a piece of cardboard black.
 
pwmin;1652423; said:
start here and select "I need a....distributor" and "the project is in this state...Washington". Looks like there's one in Seattle and one in Mukilteo.

I have a black background from Petsmart on my 210 (came w/ it) and just spray-painted the back of one of my 55's. the 20 I spray-painted a piece of cardboard black.
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There might be a link missing ?
 
moonchild1970;1653249; said:
Yeah I noticed that and was going to ask but first, I did a search on the 3m and found the site and the dealer. Thanks! :D
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great. no problem.

I just got back from my nearest distributor and picked up a bag of black t-grade, so I'll let you all know how that goes.
 
As I said, I got some black t-grade 3M colorquartz today. I washed it after work and it was really dusty, unlike the red s-grade I put in my 210. It is a little coarse, but the ceramic coating takes away from most of that. I only managed to get it in my 55 growout for my jar, "goby" and lancer, so I can't comment on what it does to the color of my polys, but needless to say, with the black substrate and black background, I can barely see my black lancer cat. I like the t-grade in that it is heavier than the s-grade, but the s-grade looks a little nicer, IMO. I have included some pics.

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I swapped out the 55g for a 40 breeder and got the black t-grade in there and a black background on. The polys look much nicer than with the bare-bottom I had in my 55. Here are some bad after pix... (i threw one in of my roseline since it was a decent pic and didn't try to take it). You can see the spinal deformity in the del and it's terrible pattern.

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