New tank background

[Perryuk]

Ok so I've set my sights on a 330 litre tank from all pond Solutions trouble is that it's 29inchs deep an only backgrounds I can find are 24 inchs high ? So am looking for dark blue or maybe black for Malawi tank, can I paint it if so what paint an what method don't want brush strokes. This is gonna be a brand new unit an I don't want to mess up straight off
Many thanks
Perry

 

[abstract373]

what i did was get a piece of acrylic or plexi glass cut it to the size in between the top and bottom braces painted it black with a bit of flake in it then sprayed it with a rubber coating to make it deeper and opaque i hold it up with my power heads since they have magnets and my plumbing also holds it in place cost my $35 bucks to do it and if i ever change my mind i can remove and replace with something new

 

[Mike jones]

Me and my friend got some light blue rapping paper and cut one to the exact size of my tank and it works great

 

[Perryuk]

Many thanks for the ideas people

 

[Wroberson]

New York City Skyline.

 

[Perryuk]

New York City Skyline.

Haha yeah or suppose London

 

[KevinM]

paint it. get some Crafting paint from walmart or a craft store. I have painted 3 tanks now black and they look so much better. I did scratch my column tank when I put the HOB filter on tho =( Its pretty cheap to do to. Just do a coat with a paint roller, I found the cotton rollers seem to do better, just keep a lot of paint on the roller, try not to smear the paint. Let it dry really well then do another coat. 2 seem to be just fine.

 

[Cogus]

I buy a vinyl back ground from my lfs its basically a huge sticker on a big roll and they have it in a bunch of difernt heights after usin that ill never paint a tank again it jolds up 10 times better and wont scratch or flake

 

[lorihallfrisch]

I was cleaning out my nooks and crannies around here. I ended up finding a sheet of wallpaper that could fit my 55g and a piec eof ci=ontact paper that works on my 38 column. Can't beat free and they look pretty good!

 

[Samzter]

Hey! Can I just ask a quick question about all pond solutions? Is the filtration which comes with it good? Thanks and sorry for going off topic.