How do you make a background?

[Ren]

on most of the backgrounds and things I make, I make my foam background on egg crate light diffuser.. then trim to liking and then silicone to the tank.. for me its easy to work on and add to and so on.

while the tree didn't make the cut so to speak, this is also how my background is made.. the egg-crate stuff is on the back and its what my great-stuff is stuck to... on the tree all i did after this was, trim it down, cut off the excess egg crate stuff and then was going to cover.. but was too big and didn't seem "cool" enough to put in my tank.

[Peakone]

This video should help you in making tree root

[MikeM670]

Very nice demonstration of how to build the tree stump. I have been mulling over doing one for a vivarium myself.

[Ren]

Thanks for this... looks really cool and doable...

[Whistly]

I've done about half of the foam. It said 250ml made 12l I think they were being rather optemistic lol. So I need to get some more. Once I've done all the foam I'm going to cover it in a layer of aquarium safe silicone.

How do I get substrate to stick to it after the silicone layer has dried.

[Kreamcheese]

I've done about half of the foam. It said 250ml made 12l I think they were being rather optemistic lol. So I need to get some more. Once I've done all the foam I'm going to cover it in a layer of aquarium safe silicone.

How do I get substrate to stick to it after the silicone layer has dried.

You apply substrate to the wet silicone, and press firmly. This way when the silicone dries it has the substrate stuck on it.

[Whistly]

You apply substrate to the wet silicone, and press firmly. This way when the silicone dries it has the substrate stuck on it.

Ok thanks