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tank colour change done!


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Well, 8:30am started 2:30pm finished and even stopped for lunch!

I thought the job of draining, moving all fish, keeping them calm, moving the display cabinet, scraping off old paint, applying new and then putting it all back together (without killing or breaking anything) was going to be a bugger.

But, it all went quite smoothly.(more good luck than good management)

The colour may not be everyone's cup of tea but I like it and it has made a dramatic change to the look of the tank.

Before:

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After (light on and off) different colours altogether:

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cheers

glenn

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I just thought of an easy way to do it.... dntknw.gif........guess it doesn't matter now bigsmile.gifbigsmile.gif It looks heaps better then the brown too

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Glenn,

Look good. Did you us a special kind of paint or was it just any brand of the shelf? I am thinking about painting 2 of my tanks and I was just wondering what to buy

cheers

Rosco

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Rosco,

Here is my post that I submitted in the earlier discussions started by Catcher,

Any paint will do the job, as it gets seen through glass it doesn't matter if you go for a gloss, semi gloss, satin or flat. (And really no paint actually bonds to the glass, it just holds on tight)

In my experience it is easier to remove enamel as it is oil based and tends to remove in sheet form if on a smooth surface such as glass.

In saying this, the difference between removing enamel or acrylic paint is very little. And wouldn't really be sufficient enough to choose one over the other ( I would take price any day, due to my first point)

What ever is the cheapest in the colour that you want is the go IMO.

Just ask the shop if they have any mis-tints around and see what colours they have stuffed up( normally a quarter of the price) other wise get the paint shop to mix you a sample pot "100mls" ( that should be more than enough to do a standard four footer.)

However the sample pot will be acrylic.

This is just my opinion. And no discussion will be entered into ( as there is no totally right answer).    LOL.gif  thumbup.gif

Hope this helps

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G'day Roo,

As Rosco said, use any paint really. I used an off the shelf water based paint and got it coloured to a Dulux colour called "Jaded".

glenn

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G'day Roo,

As Rosco said..........

I think you have your Roos and Rosco's mixed up Glenn.

Rosco asked, Roo explained wink2.gif

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