Decorations for the aquarium with their own hands

The most simple crafts from improvised tools will help to beat your aquarium . Doing the scenery with your own hands, you will save money and will be able to decorate the water space of your pets in the ideal for you key.

How can I decorate the aquarium with pipes?

Most likely, you have on the farm there are plumbing pipes. Why not use these trims for a second time?

1. Take pieces of small diameter pipes 8-10 cm long.

They must be glued or soldered arbitrarily.

2. To give the original form of this design will help high temperature. After processing, we get:
3. At the moment, the "construction" can not be considered aesthetically attractive. In the future, the walls will be covered with a layer of cement mortar. For its qualitative fixation on the pipes it is necessary to make various notches.
4. For final finishing use a solution and a brush.

Alternatively, you can decorate the pipes with stones. For example, take sanitary pipes and sealant. Apply it in a single layer and immediately "dip" the product into small pebbles.

Make a few such cylinders and put them in a row in the aquarium.

Homemade scenery for an aquarium made of foam rubber

Here is one more creative idea for scenery. Intricate shapes can be made with foam rubber. So, you need foam rubber, a brush, mounting foam, scissors, toothpicks, tile glue, silicone and acrylic paint for outdoor work. Of foam rubber, you can easily make not only a "pile of stones", but also various grottoes for fish.

1. Cut a solid piece of foam that matches the dimensions of the rear wall of your aquarium. Next, you must include imagination and create such a grotto as you want it to be.
2. When the frame is ready, its elements need to be fixed. Use a mounting foam and gun.
3. When the stock is dried, dilute the tile glue to the state of thick sour cream. Gently apply the mixture on the frame in 3-4 layers, with each of them giving time to dry.
4. The final step is to take a sponge, dunk it into an acrylic compound and apply it to the set. This will give the design a more attractive appearance. Since the foam rubber is very light, it is necessary to fasten it to a rigid base. It can be a piece of glass.

Place the scenery in the water for 3 days "get wet", then you can move it directly to the fish tank.