My Ultimate DIY Background and Tank Bottom Build

[seedubs1]

The following will be my ultimate DIY background and tank bottom build. I needed a bigger home for my JD, so I picked up a 100 gal tank and stand from CL for $200. Had to completely gut the stand and basically build a new one because it was so rotted out. Then decided to build a nice 3D background for the tank as well.

New tank is for this guy:

Tools I used for shaping the styrofoam and gluing it in the tank:

 

[seedubs1]

Here's the weekends worth of work. I cut the styrofoam sheets with the jig saw, and then shaved parts away with the drill/wire brush to make them rounded and have some waviness to them.

Took 6 tubes of silicone to glue all these in there. There's about 45 pieces total so far. Some rock pillars, etc... to come

 

[seedubs1]

Monday night's work was to make rock pillars to go inbetween the big overhanging background pieces to make caves and hiding places. This will be all the work done until I find Sika Top Seal 107 to coat the background. Until then, I'll be working on getting my sump ready.

 

[seedubs1]

Woops, please move to the DIY section. My bad.

 

[BayArea_510]

sweet build

 

[5280critters]

looking Good so far can not wait to see the finished product

 

[BlkBeltKeeper]

I cant wait to see the finish product looks nice!

 

[jay_leask]

wow looking forward to seeing this completed. subscribed

 

[Kodiakbr]

if you glued it all together inside the tank how you gonna coat it in there already installed???? seems hard to do just curious.

 

[BayArea_510]

if you glued it all together inside the tank how you gonna coat it in there already installed???? seems hard to do just curious.

lol hahaaha