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ok.. here they come

can i paint a beige undergravel filter black with spray paint..?
can i paint my tube things with it black with spary paint..?

what're the growth rates of: (i guess like.. how much a month or so)
male and female jack dempsey
male and female green terror
male and female convict

i know they probably vary on what i feed them.. but on average...




sorry if this isn't the right spot for this thread...
i couldn't find anything in searches.. :(


thanks!!!!
 
male and female jack dempsey:if well fed and clean water about half an inch a month

male and female green terror:if well fed and clean water about half an inch to an inch

male and female convict: very slow growers lol maybe half an inch evrey 2 months
 
Um, why would you want to paint the undergravel filter plates? i can understand the lift tubes, but why the plates? Just curious. Once the paint has had adequate time to dry, it should be safe. I would paint it and wait 2 weeks to allow the paint to fully cure before submersion. I would also use chemical filtration (aka activated carbon) for a couple of months just to be sure. Paint will dry, but not fully cure. It goes through several phases, the flash phase, where the paint starts to dry, the point where the paint "feels" dry, and the point where the paint is fully "cured" and is no longer giving off the solvent. In this case, you want the solvent to be fully evaporated, and that does take weeks to accomplish. By the way, this information comes from a book about painting model airplanes, it had quite a bit of scientific data about the curing process of paint.
Sorry about the long post, just want you to not accidentally posion your fish.
 
awesome, and thanks for the info!!

i was scared of the paint messing with my water... it's beige and i have black gravel... that's why i want to paint it black!

and thanks for the growth rates!!
i was getting all impatient! lol
 
Your welcome man, thats what we do! We share info to help each other out. Stick around, learn, and help somebody else out. BTW, what size tank do you have? That list can be quite a bioload on most home tanks. I was at our sorry excuse for a LFS today, and two customers, not related, had jack dempseys and green terrors 2 each, in a ten gallon. I knew the proprieter, and they were a little busy, so I helped em. Talked em out of getting a betta for one of em, the other wanted a pangiusis sutchi (sp). Now their gonna step it up to a 55. I turned a 5.99 sale into a $250 dollar sale! Yeah, I got my dog bones free!
 
haha, awesomee!!
im running a 35.. but breaking it down cuz im moving into a bigger house.. so i went out a bought a 50 gallon.. but that's not good enough.. i wanted a longer and taller tank..
so i found a guy selling a 150 gallon tank for only 150.. but he said 200 and he'd deliver it to me.. (i live two hours away.. and do NOT have a truck)

so... hopefully i'll have a 150 gallon tank for my purdy fishes... haha!!

all i need is a good filteration and a badass stand!!
 
wash the plastic parts with vinagar and rinse well. this will take any oils or dirt off that doesnt allow paints to adhere well.
 
Yeah, A 150 would be awesome! you can build your own stand if you have the skills and tools. Check out the DIY section. Using a skill saw, a hand say, some sandpaper, a level and a tape measure I built a beautiful stand and canopy for a 55 back in college. Just remember that 150 gallon tank will weigh close to 1500 lbs. 1 gallon of water is about 8.4 lbs, and all the gravel and stuff, it gets heavy, so watch where you put it, and if you build the stand, overbuild it. Also, put a layer of insulation foam under the tank, learned that one the hard way. Lots of water on the floor!
I think the fusion paints actually etch into the plastic a little, but cleaning em and maybe roughing em up with a little sandpaper certainly couldn't hurt. I may be wrong on the etching part, but I seem to remember reading somewhere that they actually form a chemical bond with the plastic.
 
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