White tank treatment for stingrays.

Let's discuss....


What does white tanks,light base(sand),dark base do to the looks of your rays? Not short periods but over a long period of time. How much does lighting effect the looks of our rays?

Examples:

Do more spots come out on a black ray if put into a white tank?
Do the spots look whiter and fuller?
Would it make the spots looks smaller and yellow?
Would a light base for marble motoros bring out their pattern better and would they look even better put back into a dark base tank after a year of a light or white base? Would this also benefit a black ray?

How many people have experimented with their lighting and colors of the tank and what benefits could be seen in the rays by changing the color and lighting?

What works best for grooming a stingray to make it look it's best? Lights or the color of it's surroundings or a combination of both?

Can you even groom a ray to look a certain way to some extent or will it just revert back to it's original self?

ARE ANY OF THE CHANGES PERMANENT?

I can say for fact from my own personal experience that blue light brightens the white spots even more on henlei and bd's and bd/leos!

That's it only 3 people that have incite or can share experience in the subject.

Well I had pups in a clear floating box with T5 lighting on 8hrs a day and their spots were nice bright and big. The male has perimeter spotting and now that they have been in a grow out tank for the last month on gravel and dim lighting the spots appear smaller and the edge spotting is less noticable. So I would say light colored substrate,bare bottom or white tanks combined with good lighting appears to bring out the spots more on black stingrays.