new(ish) background

[cichness]

well, last one we could not get to work. everytime we tried to get the background with concrete on it, in water, the concrete just washed off.....

so im wondering if there is a safe paint we can use to just paint it?

we used quikcrete like alot of ppl suggested, so i dont know why it would not stop washing off. we let it sit and cure for weeks at times.

 

[likestofish]

concrete is very basic it would raise your ph to 12 and your hardness by alot. People hare have a lot of sucess using styrofoam than covering in epoxy and fibeglass.(They melt the styrofoam after the epoxy sets)

 

[cichness]

what im saying is, i want to avoid all of that. every little bit of it. she wants to get some diff rock colors of spray paint and do it up that way. this has just gotten annoying for both of us and its made me put off getting this tank cycled for months! my crimson tides i have growing out, are outgrowing their growout tank!!!!

and tips on safe paint would be good. im through with concrete, and im not even going to mess with epoxies.

 

[cichness]

what im saying is, i want to avoid all of that. every little bit of it. she wants to get some diff rock colors of spray paint and do it up that way. this has just gotten annoying for both of us and its made me put off getting this tank cycled for months! my crimson tides i have growing out, are outgrowing their growout tank!!!!

and tips on safe paint would be good. im through with concrete, and im not even going to mess with epoxies.

 

[likestofish]

Nice double post but i think yopu have to seal the paint with epoxy heres a thread on the style of background i was talking about. http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=211530&highlight=background

 

[cichness]

i saw his. liked it. i dont have time to do that. and i dont wanna spend all the money for the epoxy.

you dont have to seal krylon on pvc when you put it in the tank, so i doubt very seriously you have to seal it when its on foam

 

[Ullopincrate]

That stands to reason.

 

[I<3fish]

Then it looks like you are SoL as any other paint involving rock colors will was off. It helps, when using concrete for tanks to let the thing sit for about a month before adding water...

 

[cichness]

and if you read the whole post..... you would see that i did let the concrete version sit "for weeks on end"

i also doubt very seriously that paint will "wash off"

if anyone with a valid reply could chime in, that would be fantastic.

at this point i am not averse to taking a piece of foam painting it, letting it cure, sticking it in a 10g with a couple of the black convict fry i still have and find out for myself if paint will 1) stay on the foam and 2) not kill the fish.

 

[cichness]

use for sealer? i just found this while looking for some colors for the painting idea

http://www.krylon.com/products/acrylic_crystal_clear/

for concrete?

http://www.krylon.com/products/contractor_all_surface_enamel/