Finally built my custom background for my glass tank with some concept Ideas.
Firstly brought a glass viv off eBay from (handsproductsuk) and it was a 70x40x50 in size.
Because I was doing a fixed fake background on a glass tank I didn't wanna see the back and sides so I cut out my background from spacefoam...
I then placed the background into the viv and drew around the edges onto the glass I then took the background back out and put masking tape round where I had marked like so....
Once I did that I got some black enamel spray paint and and spray painted the glass where the back ground would be...
I also left a little peep hole on the side so I can see him when he's asleep.
Then I glued the back ground to the glass with no more nails. Like so...
I then applied a primer to the background .,.
And then applied the paint.
And then after that put a couple of coats of pva and a small amount of sand in the pva mix so it's not a slippery surface.
Then put all the thermostats back in and put sand in
And then it was nearly finished to put the little man.
Finally got some pictures of it with the little man in and it all complete...
And this is the the tank at night with the led lights which I brought from reptiles-Inc on here.
The link for the lights;
http://www.reptileforums.co.uk/forums/equipment-classifieds/505550-led-lighting.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rF5eGcu_uw&feature=youtube_gdata_player
[YT]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rF5eGcu_uw&feature=youtube_gdata_player[/YT]
Firstly brought a glass viv off eBay from (handsproductsuk) and it was a 70x40x50 in size.
Because I was doing a fixed fake background on a glass tank I didn't wanna see the back and sides so I cut out my background from spacefoam...
I then placed the background into the viv and drew around the edges onto the glass I then took the background back out and put masking tape round where I had marked like so....
Once I did that I got some black enamel spray paint and and spray painted the glass where the back ground would be...
I also left a little peep hole on the side so I can see him when he's asleep.
Then I glued the back ground to the glass with no more nails. Like so...
I then applied a primer to the background .,.
And then applied the paint.
And then after that put a couple of coats of pva and a small amount of sand in the pva mix so it's not a slippery surface.
Then put all the thermostats back in and put sand in
And then it was nearly finished to put the little man.
Finally got some pictures of it with the little man in and it all complete...
And this is the the tank at night with the led lights which I brought from reptiles-Inc on here.
The link for the lights;
http://www.reptileforums.co.uk/forums/equipment-classifieds/505550-led-lighting.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rF5eGcu_uw&feature=youtube_gdata_player
[YT]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rF5eGcu_uw&feature=youtube_gdata_player[/YT]
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