wood tank

[Texreefer]

so here is a quick shot of my wood tank and the partial skeleton of the reef.

[::pete::]

Great Stuff? Looks good.

[Texreefer]

Yeah! The back and sides will be completely covered.. while it was still wet i hit it with a mixture of cruched coral and aragonite sand to make it look more like rock.. it is actually pretty relalistic.. and the bulk will be cover by 100# of live rock

[::pete::]

Id like to see this one when its set up.

[Texreefer]

anyone will be welcome once it's up and running

[bigdscobra]

Looks cool, Would like to see how it turns out especially they way you did the skeleton how that turns out. :pics

[Texreefer]

dries fairly fast and then it's just foam!!.. i did test it several years ago on a small tank for a few months and had no problems

[brewercm]

That's what I was thinking. Did you had the tank with the back wall that was made of foam and looked like a wall of rock?

Speaking of, they have a tank similar at Fin Addict with the back wall and it's actually part of the overflow I think built in. Anyone know how that was done?

[AlexKilpatrick]

This is a really cool idea. You could basically hide all the "aquarium" stuff and make it look like a real reef with no artificial stuff at all. You could even make little compartments for turbelles, or powerheads or whatever, so even those don't show.

[blueboy]

when i had my first FO tank about 12 years ago i carved out some big chunks of pipe organ skeleton to hide PHs inside. it worked great, the form of the skeleton "randomized" the flow. (i think i just invented a word)

[Sunhutch]

Speaking of, they have a tank similar at Fin Addict with the back wall and it's actually part of the overflow I think built in. Anyone know how that was done?

I spoke with Felipe about that tank the first time I went there. From what I remember he got the tank from the guys at Aquarium Sales and Service. The overflow was from Europe I believe, possibly made by a movie effects company? He said at the time he was going to try to get some more but it was really expensive. This was a while back so I would check with him about it.

[jaded]

I read an article on this but I cant find it now... maybe it was garf??? anyway, they tested the tough stuff to death and it is safe to use. Sounds like a really good nano project. I was planning on setting up a tank to try breeding clowns. Instead of just spray painting a tank black maybe I'll just do all 4 sides with the tough stuff to see what shapes I can come up with.

Its an idea

[Texreefer]

i did try i on a 7 gal and it was fine this stuff is fun to work with and you can make just about any shape as long as your patient,,,, i just stuck crushed coral and aragonite sand into it while it was drying,, once the algea starts to cover it you can;'t tell the difference... once tank is up and running you wont see any part of the wood on the aquarium and the cool part is you can stick a frag into the foam anywhere you want and dont have to worry about glueing or cementing it down

[Texreefer]

I dont have any firm research on it but i can tell you that it has thousands of tiny holes that absorb water and so yes it is very porous.