Rock wall or foam wall on tank help

[Justin144]

I want to build one of these rock walls with my nano so if anyone knows how to if you could help me out it'd be great
thank you

 

[FinsUp]

You should have Majicmike help you out with it. He's the one who figured out the best, cheapest way to do mine.

Ohhh... wait. Nevermind. Bad idea.

 

[CRW Reef]

Re: Rock wall or foam wall on tank help

Yep Mike would be whom I would seek out to learn how to do a foam wall too.

 

[dvenson]

I have a build thread on what I used to build several foam rock walls. I believe I started the build thread around 2-2011

 

[Walter White]

Here are some pics on when I did mine for the 120 I had.

 

[Walter White]

I used reef safe silicone and epoxy to attache the foam and the sand to the foam. For the final finish I brushed on allot of epoxy and just covered everything in a half inch of sand and let it cure over night them just dump off the excess. the final product looked and felt lick rock and was just as hard.

 

[yOdaddy]

Wow that looks sick!

 

[trigger happy]

Thanks dvenson ill check your build out!

kalgra: that is awesome it came it great!
Whats the first photo of? It looks like stiro foam

Dvensob and kalga
appreciate the help

 

[trigger happy]

Tagging along

 

[trigger happy]

I have a 120 I'm going to do this to as well. How do you make sure it doesn't get detritus behind it?

 

[Walter White]

Thanks dvenson ill check your build out!

kalgra: that is awesome it came it great!
Whats the first photo of? It looks like stiro foam

Dvensob and kalga
appreciate the help

Yep regular Styrofoam sheets from Home depot.

 

[reeferpueblo]

I used reef safe silicone and epoxy to attache the foam and the sand to the foam. For the final finish I brushed on allot of epoxy and just covered everything in a half inch of sand and let it cure over night them just dump off the excess. the final product looked and felt lick rock and was just as hard.

well I haft 2 say that's one of the best foam walls I've seen great job !!!

 

[yOdaddy]

So you just leave the styrofoam in there? Will the styrofoam leach anything into the water? Or was it used as a mold?

 

[Justin144]

That is sick hopefully I can make one that looks that good lol
How much did that all cost?

 

[Walter White]

So one thing I have to point out with this. While I did my research and felt pretty comfortable that I was going to be safe with the foam and epoxy this tank never saw any action. As many who have known me through years will tell you. I have a track record of setting tanks up getting them completely ready to for action then decide I don't like something and tear it all down just to start over completely. This was the case with tank. I hated the gigantic center overflow and despite my best efforts to cover it ultimately decided I would not be happy with it in the long run.

So I cant really say for sure if there would have been any issues. It was someone from this forum that bought the tank years ago then disappeared. I had always wanted to see how it turned out but never heard back from the buyer.

This was pretty expensive because I went through about $250 in Z-Poxy but I also completely encapsulated all the foam with at least 1/4" of epoxy and aragonite sand. this is as far as I got with the tank before tearing it down. I posted this mostly to give some ideas for others but I think dvenson and magicmike can speak the best to the long term success of using these sorts of materials.

 

[Justin144]

Its pretty awesome. Thanks for all the info i appreciate it.
dvenson- i couldnt find your build to see it if you can send me a link. thanks

 

[Mav]

Tagging

 

[dvenson]

here is the link starts on post 26
http://www.marinecolorado.org/forums/showthread.php?6781-28-Gallon-JBJ-LED-Build/page3