I skimmed a bit through this forum and found Steve's site, about how he made the fake rock wall on his tank, using styrofoam. I must say, not only does it look impressive, it's pretty realistic too. I'd love to do something like that in my 29 gallon tank, but I fear that I may not have the technical expertise, and nor the steady hand to carry this out.
Now a friend of a friend of a friend of mine, used pepsi cans. Yunnoh, those metal ones. He cut them vertically, into these long semi-circular shapes, then coated them with silicone on the inside and outside, stuck some gravel on it and set it in his tank. The first time he did this, it was easy and his fish liked it. In his other 75 gallon tank, he took at least 20 cans, cut them vertically, and then made circular or semicircular holes in them. Then he stuck the whole thing together with silicone and pasted gravel on the whole thing. And then he set it in his tank. What he in fact created, was this virtual dollhouse, so his fish could go in through one can, then through any one of the holes, pass on into another can, and so on and so forth.
Given, this probably didn't look that natural, but he did try his best. It's been about a week now since he did this and the fish don't seem to mind it, although his goldfish are too big to get into the "apartments". What I want to know is, that if I do this, will it be safe for my fish? Will the metals give off chemicals and metallic waste over an extended period of time? Coz I kept telling him that it was a pretty unsafe thing to do.
But the fact is that it does look good. I just need to know how safe this is.
I'd love to try Steve's idea, but I doubt the materials that he used will be easily (and cheaply) available in India. Which is why I thought of using the cans.
Does anyone have any other good ideas for aquascaping?
I actually want it to serve two practical purposes. One of them is to reduce the output of my submersible filter, coz when the water gets pumped out, the current is quite strong, so I'd like to reduce that using caves or a fake wall. And the other thing is, I'd like to put my aerator right behind this wall. Coz then the bubbles will look a little natural, instead of this diffuser stone right there.
I recently got a pingi logsucker in the tank, who cleaned off the algae burst on my bit of driftwood in a day!! I want him to be entertained too, so I wanna make the wall, or caves, look woody. How can I do this??
Any other suggestions for DIY aquascaping would be greatly appreciated
Now a friend of a friend of a friend of mine, used pepsi cans. Yunnoh, those metal ones. He cut them vertically, into these long semi-circular shapes, then coated them with silicone on the inside and outside, stuck some gravel on it and set it in his tank. The first time he did this, it was easy and his fish liked it. In his other 75 gallon tank, he took at least 20 cans, cut them vertically, and then made circular or semicircular holes in them. Then he stuck the whole thing together with silicone and pasted gravel on the whole thing. And then he set it in his tank. What he in fact created, was this virtual dollhouse, so his fish could go in through one can, then through any one of the holes, pass on into another can, and so on and so forth.
Given, this probably didn't look that natural, but he did try his best. It's been about a week now since he did this and the fish don't seem to mind it, although his goldfish are too big to get into the "apartments". What I want to know is, that if I do this, will it be safe for my fish? Will the metals give off chemicals and metallic waste over an extended period of time? Coz I kept telling him that it was a pretty unsafe thing to do.
But the fact is that it does look good. I just need to know how safe this is.
I'd love to try Steve's idea, but I doubt the materials that he used will be easily (and cheaply) available in India. Which is why I thought of using the cans.
Does anyone have any other good ideas for aquascaping?
I actually want it to serve two practical purposes. One of them is to reduce the output of my submersible filter, coz when the water gets pumped out, the current is quite strong, so I'd like to reduce that using caves or a fake wall. And the other thing is, I'd like to put my aerator right behind this wall. Coz then the bubbles will look a little natural, instead of this diffuser stone right there.
I recently got a pingi logsucker in the tank, who cleaned off the algae burst on my bit of driftwood in a day!! I want him to be entertained too, so I wanna make the wall, or caves, look woody. How can I do this??
Any other suggestions for DIY aquascaping would be greatly appreciated
