Painting Aquarium, Light or Dark?

[Tahn]

So I'm in the process of selling all of my fish to restock. I bought a baby 2 inch Vieja Argentea and I really like them. I also found out an LFS near me has more of these 2 inch Vieja Argenteas at 10 dollars a pop, so I'm going to buy 5 or 6 juveniles, and eventually rehome all but 1 and hope to get a nice dominant male with a hump.

Once I sell all of my current fish, I plan on painting the aquarium all around. From what I know so far, you want to paint it a dark color like black if you want your fish to darken up and a light color like light blue if you want them to lighten up. My question is that I want my Vieja argentea to show a strong WHITE color, and as you know their natural color is white/silver. So would I have to paint my aquarium a light color because they are white fish and I want them to pronounce that whiteness or paint it dark in order to intensify their natural white color?

 

[duanes]

one in a tank with a light background

and a dark background to compare

I personally prefer black for all fish

even the dark ones

 

[Tahn]

Thank you, are they yours?

 

[jeaninel]

I personally prefer a dark background and feel it makes the colors of the fish "pop". A light background may kind of wash them out. Here's a couple pics of an argentea I used to have against a dark background.

 

[Chockful O Phail]

I personally prefer a dark background and feel it makes the colors of the fish "pop". A light background may kind of wash them out. Here's a couple pics of an argentea I used to have against a dark background.
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Damn that's a good looking fish!!

 

[duanes]

The argentina in the photos were mine, but they killed each other. My tank was too small for more than one, at 150 gallons once the alpha hit about 6", almost over night, hit wiped out 6 others.