From biocube to a 65 G with underwater sculptures

Special project code name stalac

A secret project code name stalac;

 

Thanks, i'm no handyman by any standards, i just went for it lol and thats the truth.

 

I present the stalactite

May i present the stalactite a special project






It will hang from above and will simulate a cavern environment

 

This morning i was gona drill a few holes in my foam to have extra places to pegg. having my coffe in hand , and i don't know why this happened, i took a tooth pick , which i never uses, its for guest. And a was looking closer at the details of the foam covered by crush corals. I was asked i can't remember by whom to take a close up pics of the foam to see the details of the crush coral on it. Taking the tooth pick and starting to poke at it some of the crush material came off. Not from the foam itself but the surroundings. and it when on and more here and there, all kinds coming out of cracks, nooks and crannies. To reveal the rocks underneath, which i paid for. This took me an hour to clean up all the excess crush coral from the structure. It looks like special K all over the sculpture and what came out of that is impressive. I removed it for good reason. These little pockets of loose , cereal size coral, would of been the ideal trap for debris and what not. Plus it was hiding, lots of the nice rocks details and potential bacterial growth spots. So when.....i remember its Stircrazy who asked me that, thats all your fault!! LOL just kidding. Actually if i hadn't start that clean up i would of let all that material loose in the tank and a potential mess.So you can add 3 tooth picks to the expenses for this project. LOL Here are some pics of the before and after clean up.



















This looks like the valley of the king, or the valley of the queen; for those who knows a bit of ancient Egypt lol


The primitive tools, just like ancient Egypt, you can see how much i used the first one, i feel like the crazy archaeologist on tv.Hey its morning not totally awake yet lol.And i'm digging for rocks on a 3 foot sculpture, I'm crazy, Stircrazy thats all your fault LOl

 

Ok now is time for making holes in the foam for plug placements


























The stalactite has been properly peppered lol and holed.

 

One thing remains

All those holes must be coated with epoxy oh ya, nah i don't want to hear it!!!!if you don't want the foam to deteriorate.




You have to change swabs every time because of the debris you'll find in it







All over and over

 

so how long did it take you to get this all completed

 

The return is almost hooked can't wait to see it work

 

The sculpture 2 weeks straight every day 12h at least. The tank a month, i had to wait for parts and my buddy for installing. I'm not finish with the sculpture nor the thread yet , The tank is one month old now. So its brand new.

 

In all seriousness, if i had the money, i would pay you to make one for my 22 gallon. That is awesome, wish i had the materials for that (and the funds, and the rides to home depot). Congrats, you should feel good about yourself, thats so cool. Its stuff like this that makes my aquascape look like crap.