Brown or Black gravel?

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My future 150g that's coming on Tuesday will have a LARGE (Very large) piece of driftwood, Some Soil (Obviously with gravel over it) Some large plants and a black background. The question is... Black or Brown gravel? After seeing a tank of the month picture with black gravel and a Large piece of driftwood I like the color combination whereas If I had brown gravel It would blend with the driftwood which is obviously brown as well. Now onto the fish so you know if they will look good with the tank: 2 Tiger Oscars, 4 Clown loaches, a gold nugget pleco and a Jack Dempsey. What do you guys think? Have any photos that I could get Ideas from that have brown or black gravel? Please help me, Thanks.

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Would I be better off posting this in the Plants and Aquascaping forum?
 
I prefer a mix of the two along with other natural colors and sizes.

But if I had to choose 1, black, all day
 
PDRed302 said:
I prefer a mix of the two along with other natural colors and sizes.

But if I had to choose 1, black, all day
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Would the brown gravel blend into the driftwood making it look terrible would you say?
 
Find a picture of a large tank setup how you want. No attention to colors. Then run it through photoshop to change the colors of certain things. I did that when I was coming up With the paint scheme for a Harley.


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Jamesy said:
Would the brown gravel blend into the driftwood making it look terrible would you say?
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Not terrible, just not my cup of tea. :)
 
Experiment397 said:
Find a picture of a large tank setup how you want. No attention to colors. Then run it through photoshop to change the colors of certain things. I did that when I was coming up With the paint scheme for a Harley.


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I can't even use something as simple as photoshop :D
 
I would use black, but in my planted tank I actually use red eco complete. Its like a 50-50 mix of red and black, so it looks pretty nice imho
but as far as the cichlids and the plants, good luck. You might get some algae blooms simply by the cichlids digging down to the dirt, so I'd try and using a good amount of gravel to cap it with
also, at least this has been my experience, stem plants and cichlids are do-able, but intensely annoying to get started well
do yourself a favor if you are planting this tank with cichlids, get the plants growing and rooted first, then add the fish
also, I'd just say up your clown loaches to 6, just cause I know they like being in groups. And besides, who doesn't want a hoard of clown loaches? :P
 
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