hello everyone and welcome to my channel or hobbies fish keeper I am will and
today's video is going to be about painting your aquariums what color to
choose and how to do it first of all here's one that earlier downstairs so as
you can see I painted this tank whites a couple of months ago when I first did it
I was very impressed - they're really really cool and well having lived with
it for a couple months I've actually grown to not like it as much as when you
go to do you say fish shop and you see that they've got blue and black but
graphs to their attacks I think they do that because it's unlike this doesn't
wash the fish out so the colors are a lot more brighter amid the pomp a gap
whereas with the white background I think the fish get washed out because
the brightness of the background and it's kind of giving like a back light
effect although it does look clean and it makes your tongue look brighter in
itself it washes out your fish know what we see
this is in the plans it's act so I think yeah your greens and your red planks
would pop I can't stick I wouldn't recommend it and that's not what we're
going to be painting today we're going to be painting a blue color today as
you'll see upstairs in a second so another reason why I don't recommend it
because of the white background if you do have an only problem now I don't have
any products I kind of go see beyond clean the tongue but sometimes a few
specks will start showing up they believe the lights on so if I'm in a
daytime so the the algae that grows on the back glass against the white
background shows off like a green Nessun dots and I do mean a luminescent
they really there really aren't right against that wait like that so that's
another reason why I don't recommend it you'd have to keep on Sophia
it's unclean too to make sure it looks crystal white all the time and it was
crystal crystal clean so with that set we'll head back upstairs so there you go
that was a white fish tongue that's not we're doing today we are doing a blue
fish tank so first of all you will need some paint
not just any old paint I use water-based acrylic paints two reasons it's pretty
cheap and you can buy in quite a big quantity secondly it comes off really
easy if you make a mistake and if you want to change your mind a couple months
down the line like I've said downstairs I don't like
that wet tank but it's stay away for the time being because I've got all these
two paints and I painted them blue and just to make it on your uniform really
so you've got to clean next you'll need a roller I like to use a little roller
because it's easier to control where you're putting the paint and obviously
you'll need your paint trained as well so I'm going to bang some paint in this
and I'll show you what to do next first thing you need to do is to make
sure that your brush is clean before you paint it because if you have any
remnants on there you're only going to be painting over it and you'll be able
to see it through the glass and so what I use is better window cleaner did you
roll so they also literally clean less time for the paint okay so you clean you
glass and you've loaded up your brush your paint now I recommend that you
don't absolutely soak this in paint because you want to be doing thin layers
because you're not going to do one layer on this and that's that you're going to
be doing a couple layers on this so nice and thin so it dries quite quickly
and you can use a hairdryer in between sorry in between coats don't put it on
hot put it on cold and stand about half a meter away that should help with the
acrylic to dry and on your first coat to be going along direction on your
second coffee you want to be go in the opposite direction now because this is a
full glass pane it's gotten our white plastic bits or anything like that I
don't need to mask anything off whereas if you have to say a pluck plastic trim
then you want to mess that off so you don't get paint everywhere I'm just
hanging it over the edge of this little lip so I can get all the way to the
edges I know where we go
so there we go first coat of paint now as you can see one of that shows up on
the camera but this bottom corner is quite see-through at the moment so
basically when you're doing your second coat and you go in the opposite
direction obviously it will gradually thicken up and then it'll become
completely one block of course so I'm gonna give it around about half an hour
and then I'll come back and give it a second coat so there you go that's
caught number two I've probably got another - maybe coats
on these two tanks now and I got bored waiting for that one to dry so I started
a little tank as well and that's how you paint a chunk in a nutshell water-based
acrylic the roller few coats Bob's your uncle and I'm doing blue I'd
see recommending if you take your photographs of fish in a nice tongue so
say you taking pictures of male beaters I'd say a black background they're
better for taking pictures the blue is just for natural popping of the colors
that I recommend and I don't recommend white although if you want to do it
right do it white each the wrong I just don't like any more and I completely
forgot I've recently hits off hundred subscribers so if you're not a
subscriber builtin yet please do so thank you very much for my first hundred
subscribers it does mean a lot I set up this little channel a couple months back
not thinking I'd get 10 subscribers to be honest so 100 is a great milestone
for me onwards and upwards I plan on doing at least two videos a
week from there from here on in you will see the first fish rock growing as you
will have already seen have now grown to five chunks anyway and I've just ordered
a three-foot long tongue to be custom made for me for my middle Cheryl
I'm thinking sickly it's not quite sure but it almost proved this yet I just
bought this on a web the other day so if you've got any ideas please leave it in
the description box below and toying with Plex breeding some Plex maybe I
don't know yeah thanks for joining me and I'll see you all again soon
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