Aquarium background alternatives..?
- Thread starter oii
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Howdy,
if you'd like to prepare a real cool background yourself, then do this: Get paper/cardboard the size of the back of your tank. Spray construction foam (polyurethane) on it, let cure. This way, you create a 3D background. Paint with oil-based paint and let the colors flow into each other. Use brown and green, but also bright yellow (sparingly). It'll look awesome. I do that for all of my tanks. It looks real natural. Sorry it's kinda grown over with Vallisneria, but it's the only shot I could find right now.
HarleyK
if you'd like to prepare a real cool background yourself, then do this: Get paper/cardboard the size of the back of your tank. Spray construction foam (polyurethane) on it, let cure. This way, you create a 3D background. Paint with oil-based paint and let the colors flow into each other. Use brown and green, but also bright yellow (sparingly). It'll look awesome. I do that for all of my tanks. It looks real natural. Sorry it's kinda grown over with Vallisneria, but it's the only shot I could find right now.
HarleyK
kind of standard.. but I think I might just hit it with some flat black paint. Don't know what I am going to put in the tank yet but I do have 70lb's of big grayish/blue rocks to put in there. Maybe some white gravel or crushed coral. I will have my midas from my avatar in there<<< and possibly a baby Trimac.
i like alot of these ideas. i'm waiting for the underwater neon pics lol, that sounds awesome!!!
