Just leave it a solid color. If you want to get fancy do a 3d background. I like blue backgrounds on black sand personally so I would leave it. The black acrylic sheet would be the simple fix to your problem. I have thought about getting white ones to put in my tanks with I want to have white sand and black in my black ones. Using it for the bottom sheet and not having sand.
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