Thanks! Hopefully the adhesive will be strong enough for this application. If not, I'll figure something else out.
I'm getting a little excited! The foaming faze is afoot!
After all the structural design and fabrication, this should be the fun part. I remember my first fake wall was kind of a pain. The challenge this time is foaming the skin over a much more dimensional structure. Then I need to transition it to the back wall. I want a natural looking transition, but I don't want it to consume too much space. It should help that I have some prior foam experience, but these additional elements are new territory.
One thing I do that most fake wallers don't, is smooth out the foam with a sander. It gives me an additional control factor. It doesn't hurt that sanding opens a lot of foam cells, so it can absorb water, reducing buoyancy.
It helps that I'm not trying to make my wall look like a reef - more of a mudbank, in a mangrove and seagrass lagoon.
Once I get this done I'd like to test out the pumps and plumbing - especially the wave box. I'm scared to death it won't work in my setup! I've read that some folks don't get good waves. My tank is on the high end of it's range, size wise. In my favor, my tank will be very open, with only the fake mangrove root. I think it will work. I just don't know how well. One way to find out…
