Booms cube-80

tang daddy · #1 01-07-2009, 10:28 PM

as far as I know spray paint is ok to use in fresh and saltwater as long as the paint is fully cured, try this spray your piping and let it dry for 2 days then soak the pipe in freshwater to wash any residue(shouldnt be any but just incase) and you should be sailin towards the sunset.

Btw love the new cube are you painting the back or using acrylic overlay?

Boomboy · #2 01-07-2009, 10:53 PM

i am painting the back black,though i am having a hard time getting it to stick all over. i will post pics when im done. i thought about it, and the bulkheads and loclines and manifold will all be black, so it is hidden, black kinda gives all the colours of corals pop, and it hides stuff better. its an external overflow, so i just put some eggcrate in the one spot , there is no way and fish are getting threw there, unless its a pipefish.

JDigital · #3 01-07-2009, 10:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Boomboy

i am painting the back black,though i am having a hard time getting it to stick all over. i will post pics when im done. i thought about it, and the bulkheads and loclines and manifold will all be black, so it is hidden, black kinda gives all the colours of corals pop, and it hides stuff better. its an external overflow, so i just put some eggcrate in the one spot , there is no way and fish are getting threw there, unless its a pipefish.

Or a small clown... Wouldn't be the first time a fish has gotten sucked threw eggcrate..

Boomboy · #4 01-08-2009, 12:40 AM

you couldnt even get a dime through the opening, so how could a small clown get through? there is a picture of it up above, i have eurobracing so they cant get over the top of the eggcrate.

JDigital · #5 01-08-2009, 01:14 AM

Mine got thru, fishytimes got thru (multiple times).... Trust me, small fish get thru.

Just don't buy small fish to avoid the problem I guess. haha!

fishytime · #6 01-08-2009, 01:29 AM

We should probably say that both Josh's and my clowns are less that an inch long. My clown made the trip into the overflow literally every night for about a month. It was part of my morning routine to get up, put the coffee on, then rescue his dumba$$ from the overflow. He finally did get the hang of it. Since then a small candy cane goby and a carpenters flasher wrasse have been rescued as well as a shrimp or two. Stuff can get through. Dont glue or tape any plumbing parts inside your overflow, chances are you will need to take them out at some point. If not to rescue livestock, then to clean strainers etc.

Boomboy · #7 01-08-2009, 03:14 AM

i had no idea about not gluing anything. i will have to glue one thing but its in the middle so i think it will be ok. but the rest i wont glue.