Diy Rock Retaining Wall

[Alasse]

I'm setting up another tank and wanted a way to separate the plant substrate from the sand i want to use at the front (for my cories) So i decided to build a wall, quite pleased how it turned out actually

All that was used was foam, silicon and black quartz sand.

Full wall

'rock'

Close up

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[Katty]

Did you glue the sand on with silicone? It looks really good

 

[Alasse]

Yes sand is glued on. I spread th silicon like iceing a cake and sprinkled sand on a gently pressed it into silicon

 

[Katty]

Oh, that's awesome! It sounds a lot safer than using cement to get the stone effect. Is it squishy though?

 

[Alasse]

No its not squishy...not enough silicon for that feel

 

[bae1994]

what foam did you use for it ,it looks great

 

[Alasse]

The foam is from foam boxes, i just cut them up and stuck two together to make it thicker

 

[doresy]

That actually looks pretty cool!

Obviously you used aquarium-safe silicone?

How did you weigh it down or did you silicone it to the tank base?

 

[Alasse]

The silicone is Tank safe, can be used to make tanks. This wall is silconed to the base, gonna experiment with weights over time.

Update:

Ok wall stayed where it was supposed to. So 1 decent line of silicon the length of the wall will hold it down.

Ive started putting the substrate into the plant section, miscalculated how much i would need though, grrrrrrrrrr, i'll need to drop into the lfs and pick up more gravel!

Stay tuned, i'll try to grab pics as i'm 'scaping

 

[Alasse]

Finally picked up the bag of gravel i needed (approx 20kg of gravel/laterite/JBL mix behind the wall) Substrate is now all in

 

[Alasse]

Soooooo its done, well pretty much, needs a few more plants, but this is all i have at the moment.

A pic of wood and some plants being placed

Now filled, lights running. Still gotta fix up the canister, then plug it all in

I must say i'm rather proud of how it turned out

 

[doresy]

A great effort (love this section of the forum) When that clears it looks worthy of entering the Tank of the Month


What is going to be your stock?

 

[Jamepsss]

I must say i'm rather proud of how it turned out

You should be, it's very impressive. The rock wall looks totally realistic

 

[Alasse]

doresy - Thanx. Stock will be Neons, Rummynose, BN, Cories & Rams

Jamepsss - Thank you

 

[Katty]

Beautiful! I'll have to add this to my ever-growing list of ideas.