How To Make a Custom "Live" Rock with Aquarium-Safe Plastic

[@MelaniePurvisFoleti]

Thank you so much! This was the best tutorial video I have ever watched! It was all about the teaching and not the boring talk which I can never watch when they spend 3/4 of the video listening to their own voice! 🙏🏽

[@smoothon]

Thank you for watching! Don't forget to subscribe!

[@Toyman1982]

Im really a smooth-on Fanboy for sure, since ive started buying all my stuff from them i havent been disappointed with ANYTHING ive made :D thank god for company's like Smooth-On

[@angelwhispers2060]

Are your resin suitable for casting? I'm really wanting to make a novelty insert for a good friends fish aquarium. But the design has lots of holes and is a roughly spherical shape. I was thinking I would need to create a mold for it in order to have a void in the middle for the fish to swim in and out of. Can you please recommend a type of molding material to use with your resin?

[@smoothon]

Our Mold Star series is very popular for resin casting: www.smooth-on.com/product-line/mold-star/

[@pabrad1]

I like that the project is only limited by imagination. Any shape can be created fast and inexpensively.

[@C81oakley]

They aren't cheap at the stores either. At least this way, if u r crafty, u can enjoy making a custom piece for ur tank & possibly even sell one or two. I guess this would be for those people who really enjoy making things w/ their hands & having the satisfaction of seeing the end result is a "one of a kind". I wouldn't mind making a huge one for my 50 gal., since they cost like $60 at the store.

[@treycrew4117]

could u do some tutorials on how to make some lake and river related decorations

[@smoothon]

Thanks Trey Crew, this is a great idea, and we will forward this to management! Thanks for watching and don't forget to subscribe!

[@holdenshepherd8061]

A tip: you can watch series on Flixzone. Me and my gf have been using it for watching lots of of movies recently.

[@mohamedayaan7802]

@Holden Shepherd Yup, been watching on flixzone for months myself :)

[@andrewquinlan2661]

On your site the Smooth Cast is listed as a colorant and put into a mixture poured into molds. However can it be painted onto any epoxy or material?

[@smoothon]

You would be better off using an epoxy designed for coating such as Tarbender or Epsilon.

[@JohnConservative]

Thanks for this video. Can you please name the pink and white anemone fount @ 7:00? also the red "finger like" coral @ 7:55 (right of screen)?

[@daveschwartz1186]

Cool video. I might try this. Thanks Dave

[@conspiracytheoriesorconspi9061]

Is it porous, and will it provide plenty of surface area for the natural bacterias to populate and grow on it?

[@smoothon]

This is not a porous material. It does not absorb water,

[@Lymedin2010]

The first layer of styrofoam, on the inside of the DIY rock, does that ever get dissolved with acetone, or does that simply remain within the rock & covered?

[@roko8936]

It would get dissolved as well.

[@hondo2160]

What a cool technique - very unique.

[@nathanmccook133]

So smooth-cast 321 is animal safe? I breed snakes and need to cast some deli cup holders for water bowls, but I need to make 60+ so I need something fast curing and not super super expensive

[@smoothon]

Can you send us a tech ticket? Our team can help you - www.smooth-on.com/support/ticket/add/agree/

[@graybunny7031]

Is there any way to have decorations made with your hands, like a clay sort of thing?

[@smoothon]

Amethyst Dragon Certainly, you can use our Free Form Habitat putty for this: www.smooth-on.com/Epoxy-Putty-Free-F/c1390_1421/index.html

[@pabrad1]

this technique provides opportunities to create my own pieces - so Im not limited to whats available in the store. If I want a special theme in the tank, and items are not available then why not just make them?

[@jdanielpc]

Good morning, sorry for the bad English, could you tell me what materials are to make the resin and the resin as it is called you, what kind of dye you use?

[@smoothon]

Smooth Cast 325 and So Strong pigments.

[@XCyclonusX]

so what was the overall cost for the rock made in the video?

[@vlcustoms]

can you put in freshwater fish tank?

[@miriahmyers607]

that's why the polystyrene is dissolved with the acetone... in like the 5th step... pay attention

[@ashleighwilliamson7994]

Cannot find this product in uk

[@smoothon]

Thanks for watching Ashleigh Williamson, This material is available via Bentley Advanced MAterials - www.benam.co.uk/products/plastic/smooth-cast-320/ Don't forget to subscribe for more how-to videos!

[@Brown_Potato]

Whats the point? Its not porous at all.

[@Lymedin2010]

+Brown Potato It does not have to be porous & I rather it not be actually. Porous just means detritus trap & nitrate factory to me. Have you ever seen all the stuff that grows in an overflow & on the PVC pipes, where it is not porous at all? Those are all filter feeders that grow in the dark & filter feed your water.

[@sriramram5719]

Use colours

[@nmeau]

Surely it's got to be cheaper to buy a piece of live rock..

[@elpollo2867]

Nop lol

[@sriramram5719]

Colours Name

[@smoothon]

So-Strong Colorants www.smooth-on.com/products/so-strong/

[@Shweetooth]

they never said to LEAVE the Polystyrene in the rock. they dissolved it!

[@barhoomah1]

cooool

[@etremelyinnpropiart6756]

99th liker

[@pro194757]

Certain fish will eat the polystyrene !!!