black sand, black rocky background with light colored fish looks great. i have one of my tanks like that with only silver colored fish in it.
which one?
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Fine black gravel or coarse grain black sand and several fistfuls of polished or faceted semiprecious gemstones, seriously. 6-30 carats or so each, if you go to a gem and mineral show you can buy low grade faceted amythests, topaz, sunstone, rosequartz, and polished snowflake obsidians and tigereyes for pennies a carat. I used to have a couple ashtrays full of them on the coffee table as conversation toys, they ended up in a 12g tank because the cat kept scattering them around. The tank also contained some spiral vallisneria and a small potted anubias. The inhabitants were just some blackstripe rasboras, cardinals, marbled hatchets, a three bandit corys, and a licorice gourami. It looked great. It was in the bathroom.
Yah thought it would be neat to get others input/ideas and see what they have done, glad its helpfull =) I am thinking of mixing up guppys, fins and fangs and maybe fish are fish foods ideas and mixing them up a bit just to see what happens, I like the dark light contrast idea, the sand is what I am going with for sure and maybe throwing in some of those stones with a few rocks or something or maybe try out that wet desert thing.. sounds... fun, I'll post a pick when I am done with it it'll prob. take me a week or two to get everything set up and what not.Dargath78 said:
Thanks for the ideas everyone!!
bluedempsey said:i wouldn't use crushed coral. it gets dirty very quickly
so unless your going to pull all of the crushed coral out every month
and scrub it down, stay away from it
, wish i had known all this before i got it. 
Hey I got the sand today, I get the tank tonight and what not, prob. wont set it up till after this hurricane biz blows over, but with the sand I got the freshwater kind, when I have gravel I always clean it b4 putting it in my tank, do I have to clean sand before putting it in????
Better safe than sorry when it comes to cleaning substrates is what I always say. There's nothing worse than adding substrate to a tank only to have it cloud up the water something fierce for several days.
And I can't believe you're gonna let a little hurricane stop you from setting up a tank. Where are your priorities?
And if hurricanes are such a bother, why not move out here to sunny So Cal?
And I can't believe you're gonna let a little hurricane stop you from setting up a tank. Where are your priorities?
And if hurricanes are such a bother, why not move out here to sunny So Cal?
