Paint inside aquarium?
I have done a lot of research on using paint inside an aquarium and have found out that epoxy paint and krylon fusion paint both work fine. But everyone seems to stay away from epoxy and recommend krylon(nothing bad is said about epoxy though).
Krylon being cheaper seems to be the only reason that I can find people prefer it.
Krylon paint takes days to dry and I need this paint to make a model ship that I will put in the tank. This would make it very hard for me to make the model if I had to wait days for pieces to dry.
Is there another reason why people stay away from epoxy?
Anyone know how I can get ahold of small portions of either paint?
Also, I went to my local hobby shop and he suggested polyurethane. Said the gas in the airplanes can’t even break down this paint and I should try it and test the water. Thoughts?
How would I go about testing this? Don’t want to harm fish so if if I put it in a tank without fish what should I test/look for?
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Why would you wanna paint the inside, you won’t be able to see the fish. If you just paint the back or something then just paint the outside of the back.
You take a chance any time a product doesn’t say “for aquarium use”. Why take the risk? Because you hate your fish?
To test the paint I would get ahold of some litmus paper (the paper that tests how much acidic or basic a solution is) and the just put something with the paint on it in water w/ out fish and just test the water everyday. Also I would check to make sure that the paint doesn’t change the color of the water.
Can your model bake?
If you put your oven on 150 (lowest setting) it would speed up the drying process 10 fold.
but i don’t know if that melts plastic?