Idea for Faux sand bed. Envirotex Lite high gloss finish.
- Thread starter mattjk
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I put mine down directly on the glass and it looks great. The only problem I had was mixing in to much sand at first so it was difficult yo spread. I then mixed up more much thinner and dumped it in the places the first batch was missing. It actually gives the appearance of ripples in the sand like on a tidle flat.
ishmael
Premium Member
Doesn't the epoxy eventually get covered with coralline (if you are skilled)? And therefore, wouldn't it eventually look totally UNnatural? The very nature of sand dictates that coralline never grows on it? So you have gone to this extra step only to then have to SCRAPE the floor bottom? My point is that this new BB technique should end up with coralline on it anyway so it only looks like sand until then.....
Not really.. If you run low ALK coralline really doesn't grow near as fast.. I use zeovit so I run my alk 7.5-8.. I noticed if I take it over 9 or so coralline takes off again... All my water params are at natural seawater levels... I don't dose strontium though and that seems to play a role in coralline aswell... If you run higher ALK though yes coralline will start to cover the bottom. You can simply brush it off with a very strong bristled brush or get and urchint.
LittleBlueGT
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I agree with the low alk. I run mine at NSW levels. My corals are growing great, coloring up nicely, but coraline is growing very slow. Almost no coraline on the glass, a little on the starboard. I htink elevated alk levels are not the best. Nature knows best.
Sounds like a road trip to Il. is in order!! But seriously, Ill just pick up some Aragonite and use that. Secondly, can you provide some sort of idea of the proportion of epoxy to sand during the initial mixing. I am assuming you mixed the two parts together very well to start, then added sand and mixed it up, then poured it on. That being said, how much sand to epoxy. Thanks in advance.
Robert
Robert
Unfortunately, gqjeff was booted from RC, so we no longer have him as a faux sandbed resource. I have no idea what sin he committed for full on excommunication.spamin76 said:
Here's a link to the stuff that I am going to use if I ever get my tank ( shipped 3 times, damaged 3 times). I'll be mixing it with sand and applying it to sculpted high density urethane foamboard.
http://www.aquaticeco.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/product.detail/iid/11733/cid/3035
