DIY background (in progress)

Cool looking background! Looks like you did very good work. Keep it up! I agree, the filter needs to be hidden.

What size tank is it for?
 
I've seen and read quite some of these projects and I'm hoping to start on this soon as well.
This one looks very nice and interesting, not like the epoxy-coated ones I've seen as well.

But, why is everybody using knives to cut the material & shapes??

You can very easily shape it by using a copper or iron wire (or even a tea-spoon)...

How?
1. Take a solder-iron
2. Remove the solder-tip
3. Insert your customized iron or copper tip (I prefer to have a short, straight tip with a small loop at the end. This cuts under and through the foam in all kind of ways very easily.
4. Plug in
5. Start cutting out the materials
6. There is no step 6....

Let me know if anybody else has used this method before.
You could even do it with a very thin wire that you connect between the + & - pole of a battery (you know the big old ones with a short and a long 'connection-pole'?!)
 
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