colorquartz

[oakes]

I am planning on buying some colorquartz at the end of the week for my 75gallon, and was wonderng if there was anyone who has bought 2 or more colors and mixed them and if so what were the results? I am thinking of getting black and red or black and cayman green..

 

[oakes]

or should I go with all black sand, how does black sand look with a black background?

 

[FSM]

Black sand with a black background looks great. It is dark, but I really like it. I don't think mixing two colors will look very good.

 

[oakes]

Yeah I've been leaning towards all black now, but I thought I had read somewhere on here that someone did use the black and red together, just never saw any pics of it...

 

[Tropical Dude]

Black and red may be okay, but with mainly black. When you mix too many colors you end up with clownpuke.

 

[Moloch]

I know this is a REALLY old thread and I'm hoping the OP is still here.

Did you ever mix the two colors? I just bought a bag of the chocolate brown color and it turned out pretty reddish brown in the aquarium. Now I have a 50lb bag of black that I'm planning on mixing to about 70/30 or 60/40 brown to black to try and tone it down a bit...hoping its going to turn out good:\

 

[deeda]

I've mixed different color percentages of the Colorquartz until I got what I liked. If it's too dark, just add a lighter color.

 

[the_deeb]

Look up posts by user infblue - he uses a blend of buff, tan and brown colorquartz and I think it looks fantastic.

Here's an example: http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=334288

 

[Bb66cuda]

Here's my smoke with cayman green mix. I think it looks great.

 

[oakes]

Here's my smoke with cayman green mix. I think it looks great.

Looks good! I still haven't gotten around to mixing anything yet, but I do have a bag of the cayman green that I was going to mix with either black or white. Might try it once I get my 75gallon back from my brother in a few weeks!