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Ya like sink a single beer can into it and get a goby or blenny if you have them to live in it.

 

Have you seen that pic before of the clown goby in the pop can.

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Idk but if you want a fish try a flaming prawn goby it will need pods but nothing crazy like a mandarin. Oh also it depends your budget cheapest I've seen is 100$ for one but stunning fish super tiny.

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Anyone have any idea what these are?

 

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I'm not good with species that are from cooler waters... My best guess for the top fish would be a settled/settling pelagic species (Pilotfish, snapper, trevally, etc) or a small benthic fish, like a blenny, goby, etc

 

Idk but if you want a fish try a flaming prawn goby it will need pods but nothing crazy like a mandarin. Oh also it depends your budget cheapest I've seen is 100$ for one but stunning fish super tiny.

Those are really cool I've seen them for $50-$80. Other extremely small gobies will work as well.

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Does anyone know how to get spray paint to dry faster? I painted this piling a week ago and its still soft to the touch. Like leaves fingerprints when you handle it soft, however they do settle out.

 

I tried using a hot hairdryer and it just made it softer.

 

Any suggestions?

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Dr.Brain Coral

I don't know if this will be to helpful but before it dries you could take a log or piece of wood and roll it around the pillar to give it grain like a real piling

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I don't know if this will be to helpful but before it dries you could take a log or piece of wood and roll it around the pillar to give it grain like a real piling

 

yeah but metal pilings usually don't have wood grain textures...and its not that soft, any impression I make on it settles out to flat again in minutes

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Does anyone know how to get spray paint to dry faster? I painted this piling a week ago and its still soft to the touch. Like leaves fingerprints when you handle it soft, however they do settle out.

 

I tried using a hot hairdryer and it just made it softer.

 

Any suggestions?

I don't have any specific advice, but google suggests to just keep it in a well-circulated room, perhaps with a fan on. This probably isn't relevant, but I have this problem with nail polish regularly, and one thing that does dry and harden nail polish is UV radiation at a certain wavelength (I believe it is 400). Maybe there is a similar trick to help your paint dry faster? The other thing that works for me is to (very gingerly) take a hot bath once the nail polish gets to the point where it should be bone-dry but is still... tacky. It will soften as it heats up, but once I get out of the tub and dry off for 5-10 minutes it has hardened fully- the way it should have to begin with. You may also try using a hairdryer on the cold setting instead of the hot one.

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AquaticEngineer

Ya like sink a single beer can into it and get a goby or blenny if you have them to live in it.

 

Glass bottles are a pretty normal site under and around pilings and docks out here (PNW), usually already covered with barnacles and algae. I'd definitely grab one if you see it :)

 

A friend of mine and I brainstormed doing a very similar PVC piling in his coldwater tank and had planned to use pvc with an epoxy mixture and texture it. Then we were going to put one of these on top to make it extra authentic, and to keep the seagulls from pooping in the tank ;)

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You can find those at http://www.pilingcaps.com/

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Does anyone know how to get spray paint to dry faster? I painted this piling a week ago and its still soft to the touch. Like leaves fingerprints when you handle it soft, however they do settle out.

 

I tried using a hot hairdryer and it just made it softer.

 

Any suggestions?

 

What brand of spray paint did you use? That's odd... I used krylon fusion and it was dry enough to pick u p in half an hour.

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What brand of spray paint did you use? That's odd... I used krylon fusion and it was dry enough to pick u p in half an hour.

 

It was rustoleum, I couldn't find Krylon. I did also use more than a whole can to try and get the look right, the thicker you put it on, the more the metal effect takes action. I did thin coats though as to not over do it and didn't like how it looked so I kept adding coats to try and make it look better :wacko:

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I painted the piling with rustoleum forged hammered pewter spray paint, its supposed to give the appearance of textured metal but it didn't come out as well as the test did. Still looks alright though

 

 

 

up close

 

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I'm going to let it dry for two days and then put it in the tank to get it going!

I dunno color looks pretty cool to me

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Dr.Brain Coral

I put the fish I collected and am planning on putting in this tank in a Spec II for the time being

 

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Very cool. That fish in the bottom left is sweet looking

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Hey everyone. Sorry I haven't posted anything in a while. Here's what I've been up to...

 

Found some mussel clusters and algae covered rocks in the bay one day and decided to put them in the Spec II that all of those little fish were in.

 

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It looked pretty cool, but the next day everything was dead :wacko::wacko::wacko::wacko:

 

So I had to completely empty that tank and another that I placed this stuff in as well...not fun

 

 

 

I did however setup the main tank yesterday!! Heres some pics

 

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Dry sand

 

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Filled! I know some of you have been wanting me to put a can or bottle in the tank and I just happened to find a cool little bottle while snorkeling yesterday that is encrusted in some kind of growth and I think it fits in pretty well

 

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Little crab that hitchhiked on the eel grass that I found and planted

 

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More pics of the bottle

 

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