New background

[Serdiss]

Hey guys,
after having seen many beautiful tanks (with black backgrounds) on this forum, i have been wanting to change my background colour to black as well (it's blue at the moment). The problem being, my tank is running already, with no possible access to the back of the tank. Does anyone know of a way to make it black, I thought of a pexiglass sheet sprayed black with krylon fusion, but i don't know whether that would work...
Thanks!

 

[Lamball1]

Keep ur tank see through, it will look better.

 

[dzfish17]

Keep ur tank see through, it will look better.

This does not work for me. Cant you just slide out the old background and replace it with a new one.

Dave

 

[Serdiss]

no, the first background is painted on :/

 

[dzfish17]

You could try a piece of plastic that slides into the tank. I would get black plastic for this instead of painting the plastic.

Dave

 

[Serdiss]

Yeah, i was thinking of that.. but it might be hard to find. thanks for your input!

 

[dzfish17]

Yeah, I dont think you'll find it at Lowes or HD. I would find a place that deals exclusively with plastic. A 1/8 in piece would bend and be easier to get into the tank.

Dave

 

[muppet]

If you slide a sheet of plastic into the back of a running tank, you're going to create a small crevice with little or no flow at all where organics can get trapped, no matter how skillfully you position it.

I'd never do this in my tank.

 

[Beaun]

I think you are stuck with having to scrape the paint off the back glass and sliding the plexi glass back there.

 

[dzfish17]

On pages 531-533 in The Reef Aquarium vol. 3 removable backdrops and internal backdrops and there uses are discussed in detail.

Dave

 

[small alien]

Keep ur tank see through, it will look better.

You either really love your walls or you have no sense of aesthetics. Unless its a peninsula backgrounds are mandatory.

 

[Lamball1]

You either really love your walls or you have no sense of aesthetics. Unless its a peninsula backgrounds are mandatory.

Just because ur walls look like crap doesnt mean other people's walls do. Lol- jokes, my tank is painted- there is something called sarcasm

 

[small alien]

And there's also something called humor which would make your sarcasm a bit more worthwhile.

 

[Lamball1]

lol- agree