I found a large piece of styrofoam today and decided to play around a little bit.
I ended up with some floating avatar style rocks. Each rock has the core hollowed out with a hole at the top so I can insert plants in them. This is a 5 gal fluval spec aquarium for scale.
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This is a sloppy and temporary setup, but you get the idea. The styrofoam rocks are tied to random small rocks with fishing wire. The "weight"rocks are showing and the fishing line is to thick and untrimmed. I just wanted to get them in the tank to see if i even wanted to add this look.
If I keep them, I will use thinner fishing line and either bury the rocks or tie them all to 1 larger sheet of plastic canvas and place entire sheet under the substrate.
What can I use to paint these black with? I've read about a krylon spray paint that is supposedly safe, but the post is old so I thought I would ask again.
This will be a shrimp tank once it's cycled so I really don't want to add anything that will hurt them.
Thanks in advance for any help you can offer me!
I ended up with some floating avatar style rocks. Each rock has the core hollowed out with a hole at the top so I can insert plants in them. This is a 5 gal fluval spec aquarium for scale.
This is a sloppy and temporary setup, but you get the idea. The styrofoam rocks are tied to random small rocks with fishing wire. The "weight"rocks are showing and the fishing line is to thick and untrimmed. I just wanted to get them in the tank to see if i even wanted to add this look.
If I keep them, I will use thinner fishing line and either bury the rocks or tie them all to 1 larger sheet of plastic canvas and place entire sheet under the substrate.
What can I use to paint these black with? I've read about a krylon spray paint that is supposedly safe, but the post is old so I thought I would ask again.
This will be a shrimp tank once it's cycled so I really don't want to add anything that will hurt them.
Thanks in advance for any help you can offer me!
