From biocube to a 65 G with underwater sculptures

Its was a lot of fun to make. Very intense, and very rewarding too. The food was excellent, it look burned, but only looks; it was great and very tender, juicy and tasty, the ratatouille was very good too with the duck fat yummy.

 

Epoxy Roxy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!

Today i'll be applying this to the foam. The foam as to cure at least 24 hour.In my case i was busy with the other desing so its been 72 hours.

This epoxy can be a bit thick , so you can use some rubbing alcohol to dilute it.it has to be 99% alcohol, not the 70%; there's too much water in that one. Most drugstores cary it, some you have to ask for it , and they'll order it for you.I found this in a hobby shop; they use it on miniature planes styrofoam wings to render them impervious to water i think.





I'm doing my resin now. Yuk , thats sticky.... Normaly you just apply the resin, but upon this i add crush coral to make the foam more rock like. And guess what you get glued to it lol. Taking a break now. I can't explain how to work with resin and crush coral. You have to do it to see how it reacts. You have to mesure precisely equal parts of resin and hardener. If too much hardener you have a more rubber like texture, so they say on the box. I did my mesurement perfect. It dries in about 30 min so be fast!. Will update later with pics bye now.

 

looking good. very unique rock structures. Im liking it

 

Thank you

Thank you all for the encouragement just noticed lol,Thanks again , Hey ! one thing you could do is rate the thread thanks

 

what is the plastic mesh called? Im a noob i've got some in my sump area but I have no idea what it is

 

egg crate

 

Its a light diffuser panel (We call it egg crate). You can get it in the lighting department at Home depot

 

That what i've done today. I first put the sculpture in a baque, to capture the crush coral i'm going to apply on the sticky resin. I got 30 minutes before it hardens.I sprinkle generously with a spoon onto the resin and
leave the surplus there until dry. Then i brushed it away clean to leave the piece inprinted with the coral to hide most of the foam.











































All done , i'm letting them dry and tomorrow will set them up in the tank for a look over. And see if there's anything else to do to them , mistakes to correct or overlooks.There are some spots i haven put foam or hide the zip ties, because i plan on covering those specific spots with frags and maybe coral already on rocks to fill up.

 

Well thats the finish product just before i put them in the tank for size.It fits don't worry , i've tried them before. But this is with the lighting from the diningroom. My halides are not installed yet; because , i still got to do the pluming and we have to move the tank a bit so can't line up the fixtures yet.But its the proper lighting from above i was interested in, similar anyway, and it gives this kind of look. I like it.

 

That is awesome I wish I had some art talents sometimes lol