3D Background?? Is it possible?

[Moogled]

You can consider a foam background and then cover it with a cement paste.

[Sushiman]

Originally Posted by Moogled

You can consider a foam background and then cover it with a cement paste.

Mine looked great, I only took it out because it took up too much real estate in my tank (only a 90gal) I made an eggcrate scaffold for the pond foam to adhere to & gooped away. UV will degrade it with time so you need to seal it, you could then use a Marine paint(s) to prepp it anyway you'd like. With a little work these backgrounds look very nice. There is an old photo of mine here somewhere in the gallery.

[mark]

On RC there's a bunch of builds using expanding foam or pond foam, links to some here.

[BMW Rider]

I used eggcrate and covered it with aragacrete (DIY LR).

[dsaundry]

So what type of cement paste do you use? I thought about using a mold of some type with that pond foam you can buy and adding sand to it to get a nice texture. Once it hardens you could cut it for intakes etc and shape it for your tank using egg-crate. Does that sound feasable? If not, what about a D.I.Y. live rock mix in a mold??

[marie]

This was an interesting thread on RC using rock, foam and eggcrate
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showth...oam+background

[lastlight]

Pangea Rocks:

http://www.aquarium-background.com/catalogue.asp

They sell 2 models for reefs: Coral1 and Coral2

Site says for tanks up to 300cm...