Substrate and Background Color

[Itsadeepbluesea]

I have a 36 gallon bow front and I am converting to eco complete for plants. I keep going back and fourth between using red and black eco complete. I keep flip flopping on this so I figured a poll was in order. What are peoples thoughts? My back ground is painted black.

 

[ehh]

Depends on the red. An earthy red, like clay red, is nice. Crayon red I don't like. If crayon red is your option then I vote black.

 

[Frank Castle]

I think it depends even more on what FISH and what COLOR fish you re keeping

 

[Itsadeepbluesea]

Right now they are fairly dull colors but in the future I'm looking for brighter colored fish, reds, yellows, blues and oranges.

 

[bbortko]

Had black for a few years and loved it. Got bored this summer and did a reddish with brown gravel mix and like it but I want to up the brown to red ratio.

 

[SandNukka15]

Depends on stock but most of the time black on black

 

[Yuki Rihwa]

Black sub/background most likely can go with anything, any speices, while red substrate only certain species that might boost up its color with red substrate. Another thing is that you wanted to go with plats than black is always good and red is just out of place.

 

[arlo]

I think it depends even more on what FISH and what COLOR fish you re keeping

I agree...

 

[Itsadeepbluesea]

I decided to go black on black, and am very happy with how it looks

 

[Itsadeepbluesea]

Now we'll just have to see how my plants do