Background ideas/colors

jmolter86

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I'm getting a new tank tomorrow. 75 gal. It is housing my flowerhorn, main display tank, in my living room. I need ideas for background in the tank. I want to paint it. The current tank he's in has a black painted background and I want to change the color. I've read blue is best for flowerhorn but I really don't like the look of solid blue. I tried on a spare tank some experiments with 4 color background. White baby blue light blue and dark blue all kinda mixed up to give it a textured patterned look. It was OK but I don't think it fits my living room well. My gf wants it to blend with the colors of the housr, which are earthy colors browns tans sage green orange yellow. I was thinking of a solid sage green background. Does anyone have experience with green? I also saw a guy use tub foil. He painted it then crumbled it and touched it up then used it as a background. It made a 3d look. I'm not exactly sure how to do it though. Any thoughts ideas or suggestions? ?????

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jmolter86

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Tank will have a few plastic plants that my fish likes to push around. Substrate is a thin layer of natural color river pebbles with some pool filter sand mixed in.

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convict360

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I'd suggest one of the roll on backings you get at the LFS, with a green plant theme. I have that on my other tank, and it always looked quite good I thought.

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jmolter86

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The final result. Went with green. It's flat camouflage green. Figured I would post this to let anyone that's interested in a green background see how it looks.uploadfromtaptalk1430056177837.jpg

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