Great work mate! Here’s some tips to for the future: 1. Use an acrylic fortifier in you’r admixture. This will give your top coat an almost clay-like consistency and allow you to sculpt/carve/texture in much greater detail. It also adheres to vertical surfaces much easier, meaning you will need a much thinner coat and your whole enclosure will be much lighter. 2. Once you’d done painting, spray on a silicate based penetrating concrete sealer. This seals from the inside so it doesn’t affect the surface appearance at all. Doing this will prevent lime leaching/pH issues in wet habitats. It will also prevent urea and other waste from your animals soaking into concrete and makes things much easier to clean
Amazing tutorial! It looks so realistic, I'd love to give this a try! I plan on doing this for a bioactive, however I'm wondering if this will be safe for a bioactive? Like; Will a clean-up crew/water/heat damage the background? Is this safe in exposure to heat and/or water? Keep it up! Looking forward to how your enclosure turned out.
@@suspicious2374 you could but it is most likely going to fall off or crack. it needs some kind of support. some people use chicken wire or a scratch coat first
in as much as 3D backgrounds are cool but I totally dislike the idea of it taking up aquarium space....also, cement is messy...im too lazy to keep changing water up until the lime had totally leeched out of the cement...better off do a 3D background (boxed) to be placed at the back of the aquarium...pretty much the same effect with no excess work :)
That turned out awesome 👌
Thanks 👍
Great work mate!
Here’s some tips to for the future:
1. Use an acrylic fortifier in you’r admixture. This will give your top coat an almost clay-like consistency and allow you to sculpt/carve/texture in much greater detail. It also adheres to vertical surfaces much easier, meaning you will need a much thinner coat and your whole enclosure will be much lighter.
2. Once you’d done painting, spray on a silicate based penetrating concrete sealer. This seals from the inside so it doesn’t affect the surface appearance at all. Doing this will prevent lime leaching/pH issues in wet habitats. It will also prevent urea and other waste from your animals soaking into concrete and makes things much easier to clean
Love the vid man, the new background looks awesome!
Add oxides to color. Thanks buddy cheers Ricky 💃🕺🏼🎶🎶🐈⬛🎸
Dont like the green but the bacround is beautiful
yeah i repainted it again before the animals went in
Epic! I’m super envious of this awesome background 😅😂
another great background mate well done
just wondering if you have any blotchies for sale atm mate, i know you seem to have them every now and then, cheers
Nice video can’t wait to make a custom enclosure for my bluey because he’s starting to get bigger! Greetings from your neighbours in NZ.
Man you should upload more as I love these vids sooooo much
Spot on Coops looks great!
hey can you do some more videos on mountain dragons
This is their new background
Best faux rock I have seen.
Wish I'd seen this earlier before I did mine
Realy Nice job! I like your style of building 👌🏻 keep up the good work!
What tile pointing did you use? Was it colored or did you add paint to the mix?
love your videos keep the great work up!
Amazing tutorial! It looks so realistic, I'd love to give this a try! I plan on doing this for a bioactive, however I'm wondering if this will be safe for a bioactive? Like; Will a clean-up crew/water/heat damage the background? Is this safe in exposure to heat and/or water?
Keep it up! Looking forward to how your enclosure turned out.
I am using it for a bioactive setup! works great it is solid.
Great job!
Beautiful
Thank you!
Any updates on your anthill pygmy python ? Looking at getting one not many vids out there
she is doing great! will try and make a video soon
this also not good
The old one was pretty good and the new one looks amazing. What the f are you talking about?!
why did you put tile pointing and only the cement instead of doing it on te foam directly?
For added strength and grip
@@coopsreptiles2588 thank you
@@coopsreptiles2588 is it possible to put the cement and sand mix directly on the foam?
@@suspicious2374 you could but it is most likely going to fall off or crack. it needs some kind of support. some people use chicken wire or a scratch coat first
@@coopsreptiles2588 is there a cheaper option to use instead of tile pointing?
Bro don’t gatekeep please
What do you mean?
in as much as 3D backgrounds are cool but I totally dislike the idea of it taking up aquarium space....also, cement is messy...im too lazy to keep changing water up until the lime had totally leeched out of the cement...better off do a 3D background (boxed) to be placed at the back of the aquarium...pretty much the same effect with no excess work :)
I understand for aquariums! This is for lizards so it actually adds usable space for the animals!