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Re: NFC: Aquarium backgrounds
Larry writes:
>> No one happens to know if spray paint will
>> damage plexiglass do they? I'm wondering
>> if any of the chemicals in the paint could
>> possibly have an affect on the surface of the
>> plexi.
I don't know the answer to that, I've never owned any plexi-glass tanks.
Obviously it would probably be prudent to get a small piece of scrap of plexi-glass and try painting it as a pre-test to see how things would work on the real stuff.
But even if it did pit the surface of the plexi-glass, that wouldn't necessarily be entirely a bad thing, perhaps. It would probably give the paint a better surface to cling to, and might give the background a subtle textural quality that was interesting. It would however probably also make it harder to remove the black at some point in the future and re-do the background as say yellow.
I don't think of a black background as making the tank "dreary," I think it makes the background disappear. And thus the viewer's attention is focused on the artistic arrangement of fish, plants. lighting, and/or slime algae etc. you've provided for their consideration and amusement.
d.d.
Doug Dame
Interlachen FL
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