Ibrahim
Aquarium Advice Addict
What kind of dye does real reef rocks use on their baserock? I've got some laying around and want to try it since it isn't harmful.
MacDracor said:Dye? I was not under the impression that they dyed. Why would they? Why would anyone dye base rock?
MacDracor said:Hmm. I zoomed in as close as I could, and it honestly looks like coralline algae... so either they're really good, or they just propagate purple coralline. I do have a rock with that color of coralline on it.
Did you try asking them about the color?
FTMMWS said:I'd be curious to see what you come up with and the end result..
I have NEVER been able to keep coralline or get it to spread after a few blotches appear
Trusty_one said:I have found a place called smooth on that sells plastic molding supplies that has a section for aquarium decorations. They have a video for making live rock. How to color it to look like coraline and what not. Check them out. Won't hurt anything.
Ibrahim said:Cool I'll def check them out.
Edit: I know them now, the problem is they only sell things separately and it costs like $25 per ingredient so if there are 5 ingredients I will have paid $125 and have alot of excess left over.
So your saying your going to "paint" your rock...IDK ,,that sounds risky ,,especially if you have fish with teeth nipping and picking at the rock..I got the poly blend in red and captain blue. Also I found out what they do to dye the rock. It's non toxic water based acrylic paint so I ordered that too. Just need to get salt lol I forgot that at the store.
FTMMWS said:So your saying your going to "paint" your rock...IDK ,,that sounds risky ,,especially if you have fish with teeth nipping and picking at the rock..
Non toxic or not,i still don't know if i would trust it