rock making

[Optimist]

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.



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.



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

[No-Pro-mwa]

Cool. Keep us posted as it comes along.

[Zoi2]

Really cool.
Joann

[Optimist]

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.