Ideas for blacking out dividers (1 Viewer)

[ITreefer]

So I acquired a used, five foot tank with five sections to house my breeding pairs until I can build one of my own.

The only problem is that the dividers are clear and they definitely need to be blacked out somehow.

I considered cutting out the dividers and installing black acrylic ones, but seems like an awful lot of work for a temporary tank.

I've heard people that use Krylon Fusion and didn't have any issues, and there's also a bunch of threads warning against it, so I have no clue if it's safe or not in the long run.

Please give me ideas for reef safe material that could be but it up against the dividers or anything else that may allow water to pass through but block the clown pairs from seeing each other.

 

[Bullitt519]

Buy this from home depot, easy to cut, seen people use it to make pod farms so it appears to be safe. One sheet is like 20 bucks.

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[ITreefer]

Buy this from home depot, easy to cut, seen people use it to make pod farms so it appears to be safe. One sheet is like 20 bucks.

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Not a bad idea, thanks.
I guess it could be perforated to allow water to pass through.
Their black options are very limited however.

 

[Cody]

The way that I’ve done this in the past is just to use silicone to a shear black acrylic to the glass. Just put the silicone on the back of the acrylic and sandwich it to the glass.

 

[ITreefer]

The way that I’ve done this in the past is just to use silicone to a shear black acrylic to the glass. Just put the silicone on the back of the acrylic and sandwich it to the glass.

That may work, with a caveat.
The way this thing is built, (all acrylic btw) there is basically an overflow between each section (with additional cutouts at the bottom).
I guess I could put a black acrylic panel up to just below the teeth of the existing dividers. I would have to make the bottom cutouts of the black acrylic match with the existing divider.

 

[Cody]

That may work, with a caveat.
The way this thing is built, (all acrylic btw) there is basically an overflow between each section (with additional cutouts at the bottom).
I guess I could put a black acrylic panel up to just below the teeth of the existing dividers. I would have to make the bottom cutouts of the black acrylic match with the existing divider.

If it's acrylic then just weld that sucker on.