My Tank is finally up!!!!

[rusty]

Originally Posted by Beermaster

Holy Crap that looks good!!! that is exactly what i wanted to do to the back of my 90gal

whould you post in more detail how you did the back wall? i was just gooing to use spray foam and cover it in crused coral, but i like how yours looks

and are those orange zoo i see there, would love to buy a frag of them

Hey Mark that is a frag!!! More detail...... Well the back wall is made from reef sand , crushed coral, lots of old hermit shells, crushed oyster shells, and a little bit of concrete mix to hold it all together. than it has to go though a curing process which involves drying, bathing, drying bathing... soaking, rinseing, drying, washing... blaa blaa blaa, its a long process to cure it so it doesn't wreck your water. The nice thing about doing it this way is that it becomes live rock for your tank its very porous and lits of little caves that I made in it for all the little critters of the tank. The pictures don't do it justice its hard to see all the little details in the rock. The hard thing about making it is finding the right mixture if all the ingredients. I think it turned out ok though.

[Delphinus]

Looks awesome dude!

[Murminator]

Looks awesome Russ I think I'm gonna need a frag of a blue zoos back

[surgeonfish]

Very nice.
How many hours did it take you to make your backdrop?

[rusty]

Originally Posted by surgeonfish

Very nice.
How many hours did it take you to make your backdrop?

It was two evenings to make and shape the rock. then I broke the pieces putting them in the tank so it took another evening to fix them. Inthe end they turned out better after I fix it. But than it was a couple weeks of constant water changes on the bath water, drying and rinse, drying and rinse. It was a lot of work. Well worth it though. I would also like to thank Canreef, every coral in that tank has been bought or traded from some one on Canreef except two tiny frags that you can even see in the pic.

[Salinity Now]

Russ, that is awesome. I did a similar thing with a backdrop idea, except mine was using "great stuff" foam. Unfortunately it started to peel off of the glass within the first week . I think I'm going to try the concrete thing when I start on my 75 gal. The back drop totally adds a cool look to the tank.

Terry

[Beermaster]

was the bath water salt water or just fresh water? and you cured it in the tank or a separate contaner all together?

[fastfish]

Very nice!

Please keep us updated. We'd love to see more pictures.

[rusty]

Originally Posted by Beermaster

was the bath water salt water or just fresh water? and you cured it in the tank or a separate contaner all together?

Fresh water, changed three time daily, in a seperate tub that will be wrecked by the time you are done due to high alk. In total it soaks in the water for three to four weeks until it stops raiseing the alk of the water.

[rusty]

heres a couple more