Thanks for posting this. I have been considering black sand for my festae. I had been meaning to ask.
What fish are nice/not nice with black backgrounds and sand?
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its something rarely discussed but ever so importantMy GT, Texas, and JDs looked great over black sand. However, although I've never tried it, I feel as if my Syn would look better over something lighter.
Go with the salt and pepper african cichlid sand. It balances out better with festae in my opinion.
My JD looked horrible over PFS. Looked great on dark substrate.
My GT looks great over anything.
My mayan looked great over lighter substrate, and looked horrible over dark substrate.
I mostly use PFS with a black painted background. Seems to work relatively well on a wide variety of species.
My GT looks great over anything.
My mayan looked great over lighter substrate, and looked horrible over dark substrate.
I mostly use PFS with a black painted background. Seems to work relatively well on a wide variety of species.
I was going to say pretty much the same thing. I personally think fish with lots of greens and blues in them like the ones mentioned above, Texas, GT, JD, look awesome against black sand. My creamsicle midas is in a tank with black sand and background and I think he looks pretty sweet in there. I also would throw in salvini into that mix of fish. They have a lot of cool blues and greens. Good luck!
I had a salvini in a tank with black gravel and although the blues and greens really POPPED the base color of the fish was often a dark brown/mustard color instead of that bright yellow you usually see in pics.
Just sold two red terrors and a veija synspilum that looked terrible in my black sand black background.
Look at the difference between the veija in my tank and the veija in a lighter natural background.
The first is just minutes after he got in the buyers tank. The second is in my tank.
Look at the difference between the veija in my tank and the veija in a lighter natural background.
The first is just minutes after he got in the buyers tank. The second is in my tank.
I have my young male living in black sand and he looks great in it. On the other hand my red terrors look horrible in black sand. So I agree that some cichlids look good and some look bad in black sand. I wouldn't necessarily say that everything looks bad in black sand
my green severums sometimes look nice and sometimes dont. I am starting to feel that black substrates drown out color of most fish
