black egg crate

There is a place in Waterloo that carries it. Not sure what the name is, so someone from up that way will haft to help more.

 

Bulk reef suppy has it and their shipping is cheap and only takes one day to get to IA.

 

I would just as soon buy white and paint it with krylon fusion. I think that would be cheaper /DesktopModules/ActiveForums/themes/hybrid//emoticons/smile.gif

 

If you do go with white and krylon let it sit for a week before you put it in the water if you read the can it takes 7 days for the paint to fully bond with the plastic. I have put a reactor in the next day and paint was comeing off in a week but the plumbing that is in my frag tank now ( that i waited 7 days with ) has been in there for about 6 months with none comeing off.
-Bill

 

Did they change their formula? I dropped plumbing into my tank less than 24 hours after painting and it looks as good as it did on day one.

 

Posted By Bela on 04/23/2010 02:24 PM
Did they change their formula? I dropped plumbing into my tank less than 24 hours after painting and it looks as good as it did on day one.
How long has it been in there? When I did it that way with a reactor i build it came off. And then I read the can and it says it is not fully cured tell 7 days better safe than sorry.

 

It has been in there about two years. Admittedly I didn't read the can, but went on other advice I had read that 24 hours was sufficient. That's why I was asking. If it did change, that's good to know because I probably wouldn't have read it the second time around either! /DesktopModules/ActiveForums/themes/hybrid//emoticons/wink.gif

 

Regal Plastics in either Des Moines or Evansdale I think it was $11 a sheet.

 

Hey I would go with that. That's the same price most places sell the white egg crate.

 

+1 that is a great deal I paid twice that for a sheet of black from a on line plastics company.

 

Any idea if they have Sat hours? I will be in Waterloo on Sat and would swing by if they were open.

--AJ

 

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