rock making
 

I am starting to make the rock background/filter area for my fishtank/terrarium. Here is a picture of the corner rock that I made out of fiberglass. It is 16 inches high, but will be on more of a "ramp" also fiberglass to make it go to 20 inches.

This is the rough structure which I made of corrigated cardbord and duct tape. The blue horizontal line is about water level. The other blue line is the trickle of a water fall.

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This next is a first layer of fiberglass. I decided to go to layers of fiberglass which you can see is kind of clear, and then I will sculpt and texture on the top using auto body filler, hopefully with pigment (I need to source some), and then seal that under some more resin.

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here is the look with 2 layers of fiberglass, and the light on it from a different angle.

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Cool. Keep us posted as it comes along.

Really cool.
Joann

Thanks. It has been about 5 years since I did any work with fiberglass. I kept looking at the other ways of doing it, and a lot of them seemed like they would fall apart in a few years. This will be a low light/ intermediate to warm growing only terrarium of the micro mini orchids. I have some orchids in a separate small humidified space. I also am collecting selaginella (spike moss). I have a few clumps coming from Black Jungle Terrarium Supply, but they were out of "Auria" or "golden spike moss" which I thought was just the right color. Well, what would you know, at Walmart (went there for disposeable brushes and gloves for fiberglassing) I saw a half dead 4 inch pot of Selaginella Auria. It bounced right back after a day in my humidity chamber. I would really like to find some mini ferns that never get taller than about 6 inches.