Bare bottom tank “sand look”

[MoshJosh]

Mask them (picture from a different project, but same idea)




Paint on a few coats (I did 2, 3 would probably be better)



Put a few coats of black on top of that. P.S. don’t do what I did, leave your masking on so you don’t have to do it again for your black coat.



I used plasty dip, but a regular black spray paint would work fine, probably better, but hey I like plasty dip.

And you’re done.

 

[SotaAquatics]

Hey! Very cool idea, I really like this. My plan was to someday make some 'faux' bottom with sand and epoxy, but this is much easier, cheaper and cleaner looking. Fantastic idea. Honestly not sure why I never thought to spray paint bottoms for bare bottom when you can do the same with backgrounds.

 

[Dechi]

Great idea but why the black coats on top of the sand like paint ?

 

[MoshJosh]

To help prevent light bleeding through. Admittedly I’ve never used just the Stone paint on its own before, But in between coats you could see that the coverage wasn’t total and light could be seen through it. Since this is a rack and there will be lights under two of the tanks to illuminate other tanks I wanted to make sure a bunch of light wasn’t coming up through the bottoms. If you were going to place the tank on a stand and under the stand would be dark it probably wouldn’t be an issue

 

[tsccxtaoci]

Nice, may be i could try one day

 

[Magua]

Wow! What a cool idea! Is a bare bottom just easier to take care of? Can't wait to see pictures when they're full of fish/plants/hardscape!