Jacques's Beast. DIY Background and Community Setup.

So the Beast reached it's final resting placed and is ready to be converted to an Exclusive One of a Kind Showpiece.



And the DIY Background.
Just starting.Glued the Polystyrene pieces together.Waiting for the silicone to dry before going to the next step.

 

Looks huge. What are the dimensions? Glass thickness? Any idea on what type of fish and/or plants you're wanting to keep?

 

2.1 M and the Volume is 880 Liter.
I am going to do a Community setup.
More variety and choice this way.

 

Hey @JacquesVermaak , I presume you not going to put the polystyrene inside the tank are you?

 

Jip the background will be fitted inside the tank at the back.

 

Looks very promising, going to be following

 

@JacquesVermaak - how do you propose to get that polystyrene to NOT float when you have put it into the tank - it is a problem quite a few guys have had and so far I have not seen any solutions ! If you check other posts you will see that is almost impossible to keep it down, unless you use the polystyrene as a mold, cover it with something like fibreglass or another product and then remove all the polystyrene. A few guys have spent hours and hours decorating the polystyrene and only to find it all ended in a disaster - just don't want that happening to you.

 

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Did it on other tanks with success.

You will just have to wait and see.................

All will be revealed in time.

 

hehehe the mystery and suspense Look forward to seeing this once it's complete.

 

I've seen a lot of threads where they did a polystyrene background with great success.

 

Seriously have none of you seen a diy background?

 

I've seen several threads on here where it ended up a total disaster - if I had the time I would search for them - one was a guy in Durban and one in Pta - both of them spent many hours on doing it and then could not get it to stay down under the water. In fact if I remember correctly the one guy's backround suddenly floated violently to the top and hit his tank and left a small crack in the glass.
I also advised both of them at the time they were making it - to remove ALL the polystyrene as I know it was going to be difficult to keep it under water! That wretched stuff has the most unbelievable bouyancy properties.

My interest is purely shelfish - I want to do a backround for my own tank so as soon as someone has done it successfully - I want the formula

 

OK after MUCH searching I found one of them !!

Click on @Mugsy,
go to
FIND LATEST STARTED THREADS
and open:
Another Other DIY 3D Background Thread

you can read how he did it and how it all ended

 

Update - Background about 30% done.
Will post some pics tomorrow and during the weekend.
Was thinking about new lighting for the beast.

* 1,100mm 288 WATT = R 4500.00


2 of them should do the trick as the tank length is 2.3 meter.

 

Isnt that the led spotlights they are using on the bakkies ?

 

Yip 12V.

 

yoh this thing is a monster!!!
#subscribed

 

@JacquesVermaak - hey Jacques - please post pics of the backround as you are doing it. I'm desperate to find out - I want to do the same thing for my big tank - so really want to see it every step of the build. Thanks

 

+1

 

Sure pics will be loaded during the weekend.