I was wondering if anybody keep rays in a white bottom? if you do please post pics on this thread! i was planning on having a white bottom on a tank im setting up... does the white affect the rays in any way? does the black in leos fade out a little? does the light reflection messes with them? i always had black bottoms with white sand... pool filter sand... and i wanted to try something diffrent! so please feel free to chime in! thanks in advance!
White bottom?
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i just added a natural color gravel to my leo tank and it kinda sucks. my black backround didnt go good w it either.
but when i look at my tank from the side, my wall behind it is white and i like the way it looks. i was actually thinking about getting a white backround for the whole tank
as for the white bottom, im not totally sure but i think its a pretty good idea
but when i look at my tank from the side, my wall behind it is white and i like the way it looks. i was actually thinking about getting a white backround for the whole tank
as for the white bottom, im not totally sure but i think its a pretty good idea
I have found that the color of the sand totally affects my rays, and I am finding that Lighting too has impact on my rays color.
For example, my motoro's get so dark on black sand that it is hard to to see any patten or spots on the but when put on light/white sand there patterns and color really come vibrant,
Leos on the other hand for me on the white sand made there white spots become really bright white from have a little yellow shading when they were on black sand ( I have heard that feeding only fresh prawns will have the effect of making the white dots turn a slight yellowish shade and I was only feeding fresh prawns at the time ) Also the black on the leo's did fade to a dark steel gray color on the white sand.
Now for lighting, as of recent I had to replace few bulbs that burnt out so I decided to replace all the bulbs on two of my tank from 6.7k to 10k bulbs and as of so far I really really am pleased with how my rays look under them. The leos really look great and seem that there white spots have become very vibrant and this is on black sand and my Xingu's really look amazing now, before they looked pale and not very definded even yellowish or pinkish shades to them but not no more.
Now they have been many varibles to my results. The biggest one being stress on the ray and its effects and saying that I never tried to put stress on my rays, only times i moved rays from one tank to another was because of aggresion or because of separating males out to give females a break from breeding. The one time I did decide to change the sand color in my tank I got stung, So serves me right for pissing around in they in envirioment lol.
Pic 1 Female motoro being moved from tank with black sand.
Pic 2 Female motoro pic taken yesterday.
Pic 3 Male Xingu earler this year natural light only.
Pic 4 Male Xingu yesterday 3 weeks under 10k lights added.
For example, my motoro's get so dark on black sand that it is hard to to see any patten or spots on the but when put on light/white sand there patterns and color really come vibrant,
Leos on the other hand for me on the white sand made there white spots become really bright white from have a little yellow shading when they were on black sand ( I have heard that feeding only fresh prawns will have the effect of making the white dots turn a slight yellowish shade and I was only feeding fresh prawns at the time ) Also the black on the leo's did fade to a dark steel gray color on the white sand.
Now for lighting, as of recent I had to replace few bulbs that burnt out so I decided to replace all the bulbs on two of my tank from 6.7k to 10k bulbs and as of so far I really really am pleased with how my rays look under them. The leos really look great and seem that there white spots have become very vibrant and this is on black sand and my Xingu's really look amazing now, before they looked pale and not very definded even yellowish or pinkish shades to them but not no more.
Now they have been many varibles to my results. The biggest one being stress on the ray and its effects and saying that I never tried to put stress on my rays, only times i moved rays from one tank to another was because of aggresion or because of separating males out to give females a break from breeding. The one time I did decide to change the sand color in my tank I got stung, So serves me right for pissing around in they in envirioment lol.
Pic 1 Female motoro being moved from tank with black sand.
Pic 2 Female motoro pic taken yesterday.
Pic 3 Male Xingu earler this year natural light only.
Pic 4 Male Xingu yesterday 3 weeks under 10k lights added.
White background would be sweet! Thanks for your input,vamptrev;4679812; said:
Hmmm... I have the bottoms of my tank painted black with white or natural color sand but my marbled motors stay real dark! Where there grooves and marbling doesn't even really show! But when I had them in a other tank that was just clear they were really vibrant! That's why I wanted to see how they will do in a white setting... But if black rays start to change color and get a faded look I wouldn't want that! Hmmm... I'll see what happens! Thanks!Gumby79;4680022; said:
I have my Motoros on just plain brown gravel and they look good.
Maybe brown is the happy medium?
Maybe brown is the happy medium?
these are nice but i was actually talking about a white bare bottom tank... no sand... i have white sand right now...
