[APD] Diy aquarium backgrounds; does cement stick on glass?

[Damian Barton <daemondamian at ozemail_com.au>]

Howdy folks,
am moving my 3ft back inside because we're going to get frosts around
here soon.

I'm completely emptying it to move it and getting rid of the weeds- oh I
mean stem plants and keeping the swords, crypts, java ferns/moss etc.

I was thinking about a new background and came across

http://www.aquarticles.com/articles/management/Kumar_Imagination.html

I have a 2ft with a cement covered polystyrene background which I love but
why bother with the polystyrene styrofoam?

If so I could put a very thin (quarter of an inch?) layer of cement on 
the back wall of the tank with
sand/gravel in it and it would make a lovely rough surface for java moss 
to grow on.

I could even make it bumpy in places and make shapes like tree roots...

So would the cement stick to the glass?

Should I put a sheet of fine plastic mesh first as reinforcement and 
then the cement over that?

Damian.





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