DIY FOAM BACKGROUND

  • We are currently upgrading MFK. thanks! -neo
I don't have any new pics of the background yet I'm trying to hurry and finish the stand and canopy heres some pics of them.
Just curious what does making this a sticky do and do I need to do it?

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Wow really great job!!!

and a sticky is a thread that is placed in the top section of the sub forum. your thread would be placed in the top section of the DIY section. Sticky's are threads that have great ideas, information, instructions....anything that will be viewed often so other members can benefit.

you don't need to do anything to make it a sticky.........a mod will make it a sticky if it is decided to be one.
 
Thanks Derpeder

Well I tore it all down today, sanded and painted it. I need to do a sealent on it and it should be pretty much done. I also got my moonlight done, I put it on my 20 gallon to see how it looks. Sorry for the fuzy pic, my camera isn't the best. I've got 4 blue leds and 2 white leds to start off with. After I put it in my 55 I'll be able to see if I need more.

And again thanks for all the awsome feed back.

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Hey man, this looks really great. I got a couple of questions for you. I want to do the same thing with my next tank, but I'm concerned about trapped water between the foam and the wall/floor of the tank. I'd be using sand also. Wouldn't the water that's in these areas be stagnant and cause some kind of problem? Also, what is the purpose of clear coating the resin? I would think that would just add potential problems since the resin should be able to stand up to being perpetually submerged.

Another thing - has anyone seen those plastic faux rock walls that they have at Home Depot? They keep them near the building supplies and they're supposed to be for putting on that 3-4 feet section of brick at the bottom of some houses. It doesn't look nearly as nice as this job, and it is more of a predictable layout of rock, but I though about getting this and trying to paint it or something. Ideas?

Man, I'm really missing my old job - I was in the Marines and fixed the structure of helicopters. I mostly worked with metal and fiberglass for about 5 years. I could have gotten the resin for free in there - the resin was blue and the hardner was red, so you could get different hues of green depending on how hot you made it. Oh well.
 
niqolas619;1003143; said:
Hey man, this looks really great. I got a couple of questions for you. I want to do the same thing with my next tank, but I'm concerned about trapped water between the foam and the wall/floor of the tank. I'd be using sand also. Wouldn't the water that's in these areas be stagnant and cause some kind of problem? Also, what is the purpose of clear coating the resin? I would think that would just add potential problems since the resin should be able to stand up to being perpetually submerged.

Another thing - has anyone seen those plastic faux rock walls that they have at Home Depot? They keep them near the building supplies and they're supposed to be for putting on that 3-4 feet section of brick at the bottom of some houses. It doesn't look nearly as nice as this job, and it is more of a predictable layout of rock, but I though about getting this and trying to paint it or something. Ideas?

Man, I'm really missing my old job - I was in the Marines and fixed the structure of helicopters. I mostly worked with metal and fiberglass for about 5 years. I could have gotten the resin for free in there - the resin was blue and the hardner was red, so you could get different hues of green depending on how hot you made it. Oh well.

Thanks niqolas619
-Well I shouldn't have any standing water in it. I've got the back of the background a 1/2" away from the tank so that the water will run through the inlets I made in my background to my overflow. Other than that the foam is right up against the glass so I don't think that would be a problem.
-Sorry I guess I wasn't very clear when I wrote that. The resin is clear when you mix it and I wanted to do a coat of it without any coloring in it to seal the color in. So thats what I meant by putting a clear coat on it.
-I haven't seen the rock, but if it goes on a house wouldn't it already be painted? But as long as it's fish safe I wouldn't see a problem with it.

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Ok so it's finally all done. Here's some pics of it set up in my apartment, I've still got to get some better bulbs the ones in right now are just normal flouresent lights and I just put some of my plastic plants in there for now, just until I get some real ones. Let me know what you guys think

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