I have a shiny black background on one of my tanks. The main occupant is a 14" Oscar. If I turn on the lights, he sees his reflection and tries to kill.....himself. I would like a background that is non-reflective. I am looking for ideas so my bastard oscar doesn't destroy the tank.
Shiny background issue. Need ideas.
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the trouble is, the glass itself is reflective. i'm not sure there is much you could do OTHER than line the back of the tank with plants, live preferably or fake. this will prevent him from looking at the background. I believe anything else you add, even if the background isnt glossy, will reflect from the glass. does that make sense?
right, but thats b/c the side or front doesn't have something that allows the glass to mirror his image. once you block the light from pasing through the glass, there will be SOME level of reflection...... know what i mean? if you reduce the gloss of the background, you will reduce the reflective properties. but even still, the glass will have some reflective properties since light is not passing directly through it as it can on the sides or the front of the tank. try taking the background totally off and replace it with some non-glossy paper and see if the behavior stops. take it from there. you could always paint the background with flat spray paint to reduce gloss.ewurm;3246335; said:
thanks for not thinking i'm crazy! haha. yeah, matte black will reduce the glare and the reflectiveness, but it STILL will show the shape of the fish in the reflection. however, i think if you get the background to be a flat black and add some plants along the back, this will greatly reduce the stress and solve your problem. plus, some amazon swords would look nice in any SA tankewurm;3246371; said: