Fake Sand: Painting a Bare Bottom Aquarium
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- Опубліковано 7 лип 2024
- Check out this cool way to make your bare bottom aquarium look like it has sand! I first did this in 2008 and posted it on my site:
fishyreview.com/fake_sand.html
In this video, I showed 4 different colors of the Rust-Oleum American Accents Stone texture paint:
Stone Sienna which I paired with Krylon Gloss Leather Brown
Stone Pebble which I paired with Krylon Gloss Khaki
Stone Black Granite which I paired with Gloss Black
Stone Gray Stone which I paired with Gloss Smoke Gray
This is a great way to have a faux sand bare bottom aquarium in a variety of different colors. If you want or need your fish tank to be free of substrate but you want to stop the reflections then this is an attractive DIY way to make your aquarium look great.
Chapters:
0:00 Pros and Cons of a Bare Bottom Aquarium
5:39 How to Paint the Glass to Look Like Sand
15:32 Reveal of Finished Fake Sand Paint Job
17:38 Painted Fake Sand Aquarium with Fish
20:29 Extra Tips from What I Learned Along the Way
Leave me a comment and tell me which color you like the best! - Домашні улюбленці та дикі тварини
I painted all 5 of my tanks using this tutorial and my water change time has been cut in half. I share your video all the time. Thank you!!
Thanks for letting me know! When I watch this video now, I wish it had been half as long or less, LOL. I just put the stone paint on another one tonight and I do this all the time.
I've been surfing for ideas for a bare bottom... and this is honestly THE BEST!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU! 😊
Thanks! I do this to my tanks all the time.
Very helpful! Ive been needing tips for my axolotl tank!
Brilliant idea.
Thank for the good tutorial .I just paint my panamense tank today. Fake sand always looks clean and have extra biofilm to feed my fish really happy to this method ❤️🐠
great idea and very useful demonstration. I appreciate it.
Great video, thanks for the comparisons at the end too!
Awesome idea. Thanks for sharing.
You are so welcome!
Wow i love this idea 👍
This is dope. Thank you.
Great tutorial, thank you! I have used this on my tank & loved the results
Glad you like it!
Thanks man! It actually looks pretty freaking dope, was not a believer at first lol
Brilliant!
Was going to tile the 125 but this is a much better option. I may paint the back this way too. Kudos!
Cool
one word WOW
Yes looks good 👍 ✌️🇨🇦
Looks awesome great video !
Thank you!
Keep up the great work man and sharing your knowledge with us beginner fish keepers I truly appreciate it !!
I strongly believe that us long-time fishy people need to help the beginners and remember what it was like. I plan to help as much as I can.
@@FishyReview thank you man I appreciate it ! Finally got my tank all cycled have a few fish in my new aquarium
Excellent video as I like my bare bottom tank . & I really like the black stone as I always had black gravel. Thnks again.
Thanks and I'm glad you like the black stone. I love it but it can be a bit dark for certain fish. It's awesome if you're raising a bunch of albino bristlenose though!
Wow! You solved the problem.... how to get more fish from the pet shop without paying for the extra fish and not getting accused of shoplifting.... A bare bottom tank gives you the impression that there's twice as many fish than what's actually in the aquarium! Awesome 👍🏻👍🏻!
LOL, no that's why I paint them! 🙃 There's no glare or extra fish if you do that.
I like the first one and will try it at some point on my bare bottom tank. Thanks
Great! I've done a few more of these lately and still love the finished result.
Thanks for the in depth tutorial. I'm doing this now with the grey stone. However I bought Satin brown on accident for the final paint. Oh well we will see how it turns out. Again thank you.
I bet that it will still look great!
I know this video is old but this looks amazing 😍 ill be doing this to my 135 gallon
Great! That one will be fun to flip over. I just started this on a 10 gallon tank yesterday. Tip, the texture paint dries a lot faster in warmer weather!
Hi really helpful video just wanted to know why you have to use 2 different paints (coating with second paint) ?
It would take too many coats of the texture paint and that would take a lot longer to dry. It’s better to put 2 coats of texture, let it dry 1-3 days then 2 coats of the regular paint, a few minutes apart and let that dry 1 day.
I've actually used sand glued to a poster board. Gave it a tiny 3d look. Cut to the bottom minus the frame. Just glass and taped it to the frame
Walla. It looked really nice
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Sounds nice and easy to remove!
Thnk bro good shit
Helped a lot it was driving me crazy.
Glad I could help!
Good Day! i wanted to know when using the textured paint like you did in your video, can you use semi-gloss instead of gloss for the finish? thanks wiz
I bet you could go all the way down to flat paint. Since it’s on the outside, it would still look glossy on the inside because of the smooth glass.
Can I ask what coverage you got with these cans? The review I am reading comes out very poor.
Number 800! Great video looking forward to more content
800! Thanks. I’ll be back to regular content soon. Finally recovered enough from shoulder surgery to function again.
Such a beautiful outcome.. really nice good job ... can you name me the brand of those spray cans please ? Thanks a lot and keep it up.. definitely subscribed
Thanks for the nice words and for subscribing. The texture paints are all Rust-Oleum American Accents Stone. The colors are listed in the video description.
Looks great. Can I paint the tank from inside? Will it be safe for fish assuming I find the same brand and paint it?
I would not assume the paint is safe on the inside of the tank. Even if it is, then it will probably fail to stick to the glass after being under water.
This is such a cool idea. Thanks for producing this video. Two questions: 1) Do the paints you use come in a can for a roller application? 2) Will this application also work on acrylic/plexiglass aquariums? To confirm, the purpose of the gloss leather brown application is to seal out light which the stone paint doesn’t?
Thanks again.
Thanks! The stone paint would need to be sprayed on to look right. I have seen paint like that in a can, but that was then put into a paint sprayer (a commercial application in a shop I once worked in). You can certainly get brown enamel paint in a can and roller it on. One advantage there would be not having to worry about overspray. I haven not tried it on acrylic/plexiglass aquariums but I hope someone has and can answer that. The gloss brown is to block out light, yes, but also because it would take far too many coats of the stone paint, which each have to dry a while, to accomplish the same.
Wow! Wow! Wow! Awesome video. I learned a lot.
Is it safe for the fish if I paint the inside of the aquarium, instead of the outside?
Thanks for the kind words! I’m not sure if that paint is safe for fish or if it’s at least labeled food safe. Paint anything that you put inside your tank at your own risk. Use Google and look up “fish safe underwater paints” for ideas.
@@FishyReview Thank you very much for giving time to answer my question. I really appreciate it. Have a nice day ahead sir.
I will subscribe to your channel.
I've had 2" of sand in my tank for 10 years and never once had hydrogen sulphide gas come up. I never stir the substrate either.
I do have Malaysian trumpet snails so it's possible they stir the substrate enough to keep it from going anoxic. Or possibly the plant roots keep it aerated. Either way, never had a problem with it in 10 years.
That said, I like this method of painting the bottom of the tank. Might be useful to make a bare bottom fry / breeding or quarantine tank look nicer 👍
I have one sand bottom tank and I don't get hydrogen sulfide on it either. I also don't get mulm ever building up in the densely packed sand. The worst places I find H2S is with smaller gravel or plant substrates. Trumpet snails definitely help keep substrate from doing that.
I would have done each layer at a different angle. I know you only wanted to paint in one direction in your room, but you could have rotated the tank. You would have gotten better coverage in the corners. Looks pretty cool, though.
Great tip! I do change it up more when outside. but I never thought to rotate the tank when making this. 🤣
barebottom is the easiest and cleanest way to maintain a fish tank if you have a strong filtration system.you put any sand into your tank only leaves you dirt and a lot of troubles need you to clean up very often. If you don't then your fish would easily get sick and die But if you do not put any sand then all the aquariums will lose a lot of money can earn. That is why the aquarium will not tell you the truth. People don't like to use barebottom it's because they think it's ugly and looks unnatural but don't forget one thing that is your fish tanks filtration system no matter how strong it is still can never compare with nature river water
Why not just use a painted canvas under the glass?
That might work. But I think you would want it flat against the glass or you will have more problems with the reflections.