brinign out the colors

[jonny5]

after freaking 20-30 hours spent carving away (and trying to hone my carving skill) i have finished carving my DIY 3d background made of XPS foam. now the real question, what color should i make it?

I want to bring out my fishes color and i most likely will be using black sand but i can always switch.

Tank will have archers, monos, knight gobies, orange chromides, dragon gobies, mollies, and maybe a figure 8 puffer.

So main colors of fish are silver, black and orange.

Do i paint my background black as well? grey? light brown? dark brown? red tinged? green tinged?

Help me narrow down the background color based on fish colors to make the fish pop more.

Oh and currently my hearty vals and java fern are lasting in 1.005-1.006sg, i hope to introduce some bacopa as well so tank will be sparsly planted.

 

[Ptrick125]

Do you have any pics?


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[HX67]

I tend to go with shades of gray (fake stone) and perhaps brown (fake wood) with the hardscapes. Darker shades rather than light.

Done my share of diving and have developed an eye for colour patterns with non-reef hardscapes. Underwater scapes will be covered with algae/aufwuchs eventually, and bright colours under it show up unnatural.
It's the shapes, structure and texture that count (opinion).

I do terrarium hardscapes with earth colours such as lighter ochre or ground reds, but with aquariums they tend to be a bit...umm, fake...

Any progress, then?

 

[jonny5]

hmm, im doing a paludarium with about 70-75% of the scape under water and 20-25% of it exposed. Sry no updates yet, the scape has kind of been put on the backburning for hunting season but i think i will do a black base on the underwater portion only and then recoat with a brown color with red undertones on the enitre scape.

If that doesnt work out i can always repaint.