Like many of you I just can't find exactly what I want at the store for my aquarium decorations, so I have decided to make my own. I really like the Styrofoam backgrounds that I have seen and would love to make one but I have fish in my tank right now and I read that you have to cycle your tank for somewhere around a month before adding fish, so this isn't an option for me. I want to use Sculpey modeling clay around PVC pipe for a portion of my project and clay around metal wire or tubing for another. From what I have seen PVC is safe to use as long as you follow all precautions with adding anything new to the tank, but I can't find any info. on whether Sculpey (or some other brand) is safe for aquarium use. I think I saw somewhere that metal isn't safe. Is there anyway to treat the metal to make it safe? If anyone has some helpful hints or actually knows about clay from experience, that would be awesome. The plan is to make a tree stump decoration with all the cool twisty gnarly roots for fish to hide in and then the top will double for my turtle basking platform. Just to add I tried to find a piece of drift wood that would work but none of the ones I found online were big enough or the right shape.
. I have some anchoring plants, I guess I better dig it up and replace it with potters clay.
