So first off let me say something serious.....Goodbye GS Foam, I will not miss you. Now let’s take a moment of silence to remember....................... K that is enough.
Sooooo Long weekend has hit and it got me motivated to try something “new” for myself. I did a clay background if you haven’t guessed already.
First off, here is the clay I used, its “special” lol. Got it from Wal-Mart and each 11kg box was 5-6$. I’m pretty sure they come larger but I didn’t bring a pickup truck and this stuff is heavy! I dumped about 7kgs into a large bucket and filled it with water 2” above the surface of clay and let it sit overnight.
Once I mixed the clay as best I could I began taking chunks out and mixing my substrate into it. I did the mixing by eye, I did not measure, and made softball sixed mixtures at a time due to it being very thick and difficult to mix a lot at a time. I used about one full handful of clay, 1 handful of peat moss, and ½ handfuls of eco earth substrate and mulched sphagnum.
MMMMM....Sphagnum smoothie anyone???
Then I needed to kneed kneed kneed until no grey clay flakes were visible...This is what I ended up with...Pure gold imo, and it costs less then any other BG method I’ve tried so far!!!
Then I threw the ball in another large bucket and continued making small batches until my arms looked like Popeye’s. Now that the mixture was finished, I started my false bottom....
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Canada Day Weekend Build! : Clay Background Method
....Oh well, guess I gotta build more tanks to fill it in! 
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