New Discus Purchase-Red Leopard Snakeskins

[acroholic]

Picked up 12 of these babies a couple weeks ago. These are bred by Award Winning Breeder Mark Tan. All are about 5" in length.
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[hn1]

Very nice fish Dave!

 

[acroholic]

Thanks Larry. I am wanting to do a realistic 3D background with tree stumps, etc, for these 12 fish and am trying to go about the best way to do this without breaking the bank. Doing this in my 265 gallon tank.

 

[haninja]

I saw them in person, beautiful fish.

 

[fish scales2]

NICE!!!!!!

What are you considering for the background?

 

[superclown]

Acroholic;591885 wrote: Thanks Larry. I am wanting to do a realistic 3D background with tree stumps, etc, for these 12 fish and am trying to go about the best way to do this without breaking the bank. Doing this in my 265 gallon tank.

Spray foam works wonders. Its what i use to create all my fake backgrounds with my dart frog tanks. You use foam board to create a skeletal structure and base of your background. Then spray foam on top of that (use in layers) so you don't get too much expansion. Cut your rough shape with sharp box cutter sand down to desired shapes, the cool thing about this stuff is it can be as simple or as creative as you want it to be. Paint it, seal it let it cure and your good to go.

A little bit of work involved and takes a while to do but when done right looks amazing

 

[raisedonnintendo]

U don't really need 12 Dave. N I don't want you to be stressed out from all those fish. So I'll have to be the 1 to step up and take one off your hands for you. Don't worry I'll do it free of charge.

 

[acroholic]

RaisedOnNintendo;592029 wrote: U don't really need 12 Dave. N I don't want you to be stressed out from all those fish. So I'll have to be the 1 to step up and take one off your hands for you. Don't worry I'll do it free of charge.

Mike,
That is really nice of you, hehehe! You should at least let me give you a couple frags for the effort!

 

[acroholic]

SuperClown;592003 wrote: Spray foam works wonders. Its what i use to create all my fake backgrounds with my dart frog tanks. You use foam board to create a skeletal structure and base of your background. Then spray foam on top of that (use in layers) so you don't get too much expansion. Cut your rough shape with sharp box cutter sand down to desired shapes, the cool thing about this stuff is it can be as simple or as creative as you want it to be. Paint it, seal it let it cure and your good to go.

A little bit of work involved and takes a while to do but when done right looks amazing

I'd imagine you would have to be very liberal with the silicone when fixing this in place, with all the foam.

 

[raisedonnintendo]

Acroholic;592228 wrote: Mike,
That is really nice of you, hehehe! You should at least let me give you a couple frags for the effort!

+1 I agree but for you my friend I'd suffer this one time.