new product for BB lovers and textured backgrounds

[jhale]

I found a great new product for creating textured floors and walls for our reefs tanks. it is vacuum formed pvc textured panels. they are made for the theater and movie industry, but our perfect for our hobby.

check it out at www.provostdisplays.com Look at the textured panel section, the pebble surface is pictured below. the moon surface also looks great. they come in either clear or white pvc in 4x8 sheets about $80 each.

 

[jackson6745]

looks weird J I wonder how it would look in a tank?

 

[herman]

i totally like that!! With coraline it would look definitely better that the marinabords that we use.

 

[nanoreefer22]

That stuff looks noicee...now I have to ask does it come with the hand or the rock?

 

[Quang]

are the grooves deep enough that detritus gets trapped?....might be a concern

 

[jhale]

Rich, it will look strange at first, but like Herman said once it's covered in coraline it will look more natural. and the stuff is pvc, a coraline magnet. I give it a month and you won't see it any more.

Kris, if you order some I'll give you a hand installing it

Froggie, yes there might be some concern, with enough flow it should be okay. I was thinking of the pebble surface for the walls though, and the moon surface for the floor. If you look at the site you'll see the moon surface has a kind of shale rock look, it's not bumpy, but it has some texture.

 

[gforce6]

I like moon surface textured. I will def. consider this panel for my next tank.

 

[inline6]

are the grooves deep enough that detritus gets trapped?....might be a concern

That would be cool to use with some eggcrate to prevent much build up of detritus.:scratch:

 

[thirty6]

I know this post is old, but I'm looking for ideas for a new tank: anyone try these panels? If so pics?

 

[FlyTekk]

The whole barebottom philosophy depends on detritus getting caught in sock or skimmer. So much so that some have no skimmer because everything is to stay suspended to sock catches it. This is going to detract from the bare bottom ideology. Once the rocks are stacked over this you wont be able to syphon under it. From there its a uphill battle.

 

[albano]

I know this post is old...

OLD!...WTH are you doing, 'sniffing' around the 'cold case' files?

 

[thirty6]

Yea, I'm home sick..... And bored out of my mind

 

[MatthewScars]

I know this post is old, but I'm looking for ideas for a new tank: anyone try these panels? If so pics?

Dont do it. I had a 90g tank with a rockwall and after a year it was a dead trap. This stuff holds onto detritus like you would not even believe.

If I had to do it again, id leave a two inch space between the back rock wall and the glass and set up like 4 small power heads to blow all the crap around back there. Or maybe like a hole in it with a powerhead sticking out of it to suck up the stuff in the back.

I miss you. It looked better than this right before the crash.

 

[thirty6]

I'm not going to do it, thought it looked cool though. I'm debating painting rear wall of my new tank and searched through older posts and found this one