Reef safe paint

[funtime]

Hi there,

Just wondering what paint is reef safe or if I can just use any paint? I need to paint some cable tidy's and my luminous green powerhead impellers!

Would a normal plastic car spraypaint from Halfords do the trick?

And yes I am a big tart :snowski:

thanks,

James

 

[anewguy]

I've used fusion for plastic (fully cured by 24 hours) to paint a couple of the wetside of magfloats. I painted them flat black so they would be less visible. It's been a year now and no problem I can tell. Ceriths, turbos, and now coraline don't seem to mind at all.

Mike

 

[funtime]

Thanks for the reply, that's not special marine paint looking at it, so I'm assuming i can just use anything to paint it with?

 

[Frankie]

I have never painted anything that would go inside the water. I would try using Mike's brand since we now know he had no problems with it. Thanks for the info Mike

 

[BigAl07]

I've used the same as Mike MANY times inside my Reef Tank(s). One of them going on 3 years now. Once it's cured it's fine in fact one of the items is completely covered in Coraline algae.

 

[Frankie]

That just firms it up for me and what paint inside the tank. Thanks Allen