Unique Reef Aquarium Decor - Let's see it

[Katrina71]

I'd love an hob with a gargoyle head like a gothic downspout in my freshwater tank.

 

[Maritimer]

I posted a thread just a minute ago with this question but this looks like a perfect thread to ask in! I really, really want a statue of Cthulhu in my tank but I worry that it might leach something into the water. Would something like the below statue cause issues in a tank? Thanks!
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...6-9fdc-425a-aee8-c82daa7b18ed&pf_rd_i=desktop

While I know that some aquarium ornaments are made with resin, and that they're non-toxic, if brittle, I don't know if they're made from the same _kind_ of resin, nor do I know the properties of what that statue is painted with. (Most aquarium ornament paint will drift away over the first few months / year or so, leaving you with the base color - usually white, sometimes grey.)

~Bruce

 

[Cory]

My wife saw the skeleton and said "When is gator season? We could do a gator skeleton"

I wouldnt use gator bones. Bones are high in phosphourus.

 

[Cory]

Btw cool guys!

 

[pattyxlynn]

If you really, really, really, really want one, I can sculpt it for you. But the cost of the non-toxic, aquarium safe clay I use to sculpt with cost more than what you referenced. I'd also need an image of what the back would look like.

Now you have me thinking. I might sculpt a sleeping mermaid onto one of my rocks.

I posted a thread just a minute ago with this question but this looks like a perfect thread to ask in! I really, really want a statue of Cthulhu in my tank but I worry that it might leach something into the water. Would something like the below statue cause issues in a tank? Thanks!
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...6-9fdc-425a-aee8-c82daa7b18ed&pf_rd_i=desktop

 

[TX_Punisher]

#ftw

 

[JoeIII]

I was wondering how long that would take to show up.
They had a dragon as well, but it didn't get as much attention ;)

 

[TX_Punisher]

I was wondering how long that would take to show up.
They had a dragon as well, but it didn't get as much attention ;)

I wonder why :rolleyes:

 

[SmokeyGnar]

This tank is awesome and I'm totally inspired to buy a tank big enough to do something like this[emoji848]

 

[esloan88]

If you really, really, really, really want one, I can sculpt it for you. But the cost of the non-toxic, aquarium safe clay I use to sculpt with cost more than what you referenced. I'd also need an image of what the back would look like.

Now you have me thinking. I might sculpt a sleeping mermaid onto one of my rocks.

Any interest in sculpting a Cthulhu statue? Nothing huge but it something for my 45 gallon cube.

 

[pattyxlynn]

I was wondering how long that would take to show up.
They had a dragon as well, but it didn't get as much attention ;)

Wait, what?, am I the only one that wants to see the dragon? ;)

 

[pattyxlynn]

Any interest in sculpting a Cthulhu statue? Nothing huge but it something for my 45 gallon cube.

Yeah, I can do that. I'll see if I can figure out how to send a PM. I'm waiting on reference images to sculpt a Timucua Indian Warrior for the local Historical Society. This will be a fun project while I'm waiting.

 

[JoeIII]

Wait, what?, am I the only one that wants to see the dragon? ;)

Found a picture of it on their instagram. These were in the reef chicks booth at Reef-a-palooza Orlando. Saturday the "girl" had a clam between her legs - slightly NSFW ;)

dragon:

NOT MY PICTURE. Source: http://www.thepicta.com/media/1509837108344635849_302029844

 

[JoeIII]

I have one of those wrecked helicopter ornaments that my son insisted on having. I had it in my frag tank for a while, but when I had to tear that tank down I put it in the display and set some montipora frags on it. It took a long time but they have started to encrust onto it.

When people come over it takes a while for them to notice it, but when they do they love the look. Reefers and non-reefers alike.

Ironically, the helicopter came from WWC - the last place you'd expect to see a decoration like that.

No recent pics, but when it was in the frag tank the algae blenny loved to look out the window:

I need to get a newer picture of this - it is 50% covered in encrusting montipora. we have also nestled it into the rock+sand in such a way that it now looks like it crashed into the reef and has become part of it.

 

[Daniel@R2R Verified Admin]

Let's see some more of these tanks!

 

[JoeIII]

on our never ending quest for unique aquascape, we recently picked up a bunch of rock from a FOWLR system that was being torn down and there was a large anchor decoration, thinking of working it into our reboot and will post if I do. It's pretty big for our system, at least a foot tall and might be out of place scale-wise...