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Regarding 3D printers, I wanted to know the process involved in making items like an Artificial Coral, has anyone on here got a 3D printer or knows about them.
I have been keeping marine fish for quite some time now, and have always struggled with the hard corals and sometimes buy them from places that sell "living color" artificial corals, these are stunning and look the part but also the price tag is serious as there is nothing like them on the market, this is not about manufacture lol... it is about building them exact to fit into my fish tank - as that is the only thing with buying the good stuff online and that is they are built to buy.
I do keep live corals and anemones but the easier types of course that are raised and bred in fish tanks (some LPS and SPS corals are impossible for me lol).
Living color (colour) is an american based company they actually do the brilliant "Fish Tank Kings" TV series and make serious monster tanks! so you can imagine they do not sell in small pieces unless you are in the millionairs bracket!
So back on topic could a 3D printer make artificial corals, would they have to be plastic only, and what kind of detail could you expect from a 3d Printer copy of a marine coral!
Thought I would kick this section off with some questions about the printers
Thanks all
Mick
I have been keeping marine fish for quite some time now, and have always struggled with the hard corals and sometimes buy them from places that sell "living color" artificial corals, these are stunning and look the part but also the price tag is serious as there is nothing like them on the market, this is not about manufacture lol... it is about building them exact to fit into my fish tank - as that is the only thing with buying the good stuff online and that is they are built to buy.
I do keep live corals and anemones but the easier types of course that are raised and bred in fish tanks (some LPS and SPS corals are impossible for me lol).
Living color (colour) is an american based company they actually do the brilliant "Fish Tank Kings" TV series and make serious monster tanks! so you can imagine they do not sell in small pieces unless you are in the millionairs bracket!
So back on topic could a 3D printer make artificial corals, would they have to be plastic only, and what kind of detail could you expect from a 3d Printer copy of a marine coral!
Thought I would kick this section off with some questions about the printers
Thanks all
Mick