sign taping as a background?

[robroy]

I'm due to move home soon and wish to do a new backround for the tank. My mate has used what I felt was a novel background material. He bought some of the acrylic-style tape material that sign manufactureres use for shop front windows. They made it to his dimensions and it came in a roll. He laid it on the glass like wallpaper. He reckons it looks very flush, no air bubbles and the colour holds excellentl (much better than other applied backgrounds). He also said it can be pealed off easily if needed.
Anyone ever used this before?

 

[johnp]

no, but thats a good idea - was it just a solid color?

 

[parkedcar]

I own a sign shop so all my tanks are backed with black vinyl.
Its great, looks like paint, but peals off real easy.

 

[FishyCreations726]

Yeah its just vinyl... My boyfriend works for a print shop. I making one that is a photo of rocks and such to put on my tank

 

[robroy]

no, but thats a good idea - was it just a solid color?

you choose the colour you want which is the great part. I guess you could even get a textured look to it as well-the scope is endless.

 

[stotty]

A friend of mine did the back of his tank in baking foil (silver foil0 what ever you want to call it, it looked cool and different. On my 180 I used the Juwel back ground there good and pad the tank out if fish have a habit of smashing into it. take a look

http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?i...s?q=juwel+backgrounds&svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&sa=N

 

[Dr Joe]

Yeah its just vinyl... My boyfriend works for a print shop. I making one that is a photo of rocks and such to put on my tank

Perhaps he could do custom backgrounds for members of their supplied pix?

How large a format can he do?

Dr Joe

.

 

[CHOMPERS]

And how much will it cost us for him to do one?






...say, for a 75g




...and a 110g




...and a 250

 

[TipStylez]

^Yeah i wanna know.

I was thinking of painting the outside of my tanks black. But if theres another option then il give it a try.