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Hi There,
i am kinda new on this site, my name is farid I'm from switzerland 34 y old working as a light technician in a theatre in zurich.
I keep 9 species Sucker loaches, about 15 different catfish species, and more different fish. 22 tanks from 30L um to 700L
for the ones who understand german here is a little bit of my self made things>> http://veloofahren.ch/Aquarium/selfmade.html
for those who dont understand german have a look anyway i guess you get it also by looking at the pics

best regards from zurich,switzerland

farid

Hello Farid,

I personally really love 3d-ruckwand section.

Could you please, tell me what is this made from and what painting did you use?

Regards.

My german isn't very good, but it says "PU foam" - Polyurethane foam, and the paint is a two-component Epoxy based paint.

Edit: And welcome Farid.

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Mats

hi guys,
so...the white stuff is Styro foam (what ever the name in english is) it is white packing material...with lots of little foam bubbles

the black layer is epoxy (dont know the full name) so as matt writes... a 2 componend (liquid plastic)...mixed with black colour. so i could see the thickness of the material. i made about 4-5 layers with epoxy and always on top some kind of cotton net as armour. the wall is about 3-4mm thick. before i started with the epoxy i used a layer of wax based liquid to get a "separation layer" so it was quite easy to get the styro foam out of the form.
the theatre painter sprayed the whole thing to look like rock...shadows etc. not needed at all!! as algae grow in the first 3 weeks!

on top of everything i added a last layer and covered it in quarz sand (the grey sand, people use for birds (calcium free) so the top layer was not shiny anymore and the algae can hold on better...

i hope you understand the first try to explain it to you (swiss)

regards
farid