After many months of procrastinating I have finally finished a background for a tank i setup at work this weekend - the planting leaves a lot to be desired but as more come available from my other tanks at home i will plant out some more. The rock wall at the back is just over half the back wall so I had room for the heater and filter intake pipe which will hopefully be covered up by twisted val etc in a few months time. The wall has a few hole that join together with a bit of a cave from the left hand side so the fish have somewhere they can hide if required.

excuse the image quality as the pic was taken from my phone

It looks awesome! Wish I had a tank like that at work haha.. But I think my productivity would decrease lol..

It looks awesome!

+1

It looks so natural!

Did you consider making the background rougher? i.e using a fork/heat gun on the poly?

Looks good, how did you paint it?

Thanks everyone.

I used a teaspoon to get the contours and tunnels etc and then used a heat gun to melt the poly to make it a bit harder and less likely to fall apart as i handled it. The last coat of concrete I mixed in some black oxide to get the color and then 2 coats of expoxy resin to seal it all up.

I think it looks bluer than it actually is because of the phone so i might try and get some better pics with a camera tomorrow.

Heres a better shot of the tank and a close up of the rock wall

That is some seriously good diy skills there!

Well done! looks great!

looks great

:spop:

Thanks, I put 3 fish in there to cycle it before putting in my baby angels and they like going through the tunnels I made so thats all good

so its been a little over a month since i set this up and thought it was about time for an update