Backgrounds

[Ethos]

Just wounderin.....

 

[Ava_Banana]

I have 4 tanks.......

.....I prefer the darker backgrounds (preferably looking like stone/roots etc).

1 tank has a dark picture background of stone and tree roots (one of the standard ones you get from your lfs).

1 has a completely black background.

My thin/window tank has no background so it can be seen from both sides.........however, this is freaking my convicts out a bit so I have some black card (big sheets going home with me today ) to put some of the way up the back of that.

My crab tank has no background.......but he doesn't mind....

I am not too much into the bright/garish backgrounds.........

 

[SirMinion]

None of our tanks have backgrounds as in our opinion most of the commercially available ones look tacky.

We also have a new problem with Martha in that if we put anything against the glass of her tank, it makes the inside surface into a mirror.

This makes Martha spend ages ramming and biting at the glass trying to get to 'the other fahaka'.
Silly Martha.

By the way, there's no 'U' in 'wondering'

 

[Fella]

I've got a dark blue/to light blue gradient currently in the tank, and it looks ace. Otherwise, fake plants, the arizona desert etc, don't really do it for me.

 

[Briarmoor]

I think backgrounds with reefs and stuff would look dumb with a FW tank, and vice versa. But I had a tank without a background and the fish seemed kind of weirded out. I also didn't like looking at a blue wall on the other side.

The backgrounds with plants and driftwood seem to add dimension to the tank. But I could do without the fish looking at themselves in the sides of the tank and swim up and down and back and forth and all that. The pleco only does it at night. The Phantoms got over it after a week or so. The gouramis have never been that dumb.

 

[boxman]

No background - I agree with SirMinion, (poor Martha - she only wants to say hello in the way puffers do! CHOMP CHOMP)

 

[Bloo]

Depending on setup, but generally backgrounds to hide the ghastly wires etc. and enhance the colours of the fish. My fish tend to freak out if there is NO background - whizz around manically or try and hide behind plants or wriggle into substrate
I (now) prefer sold dark background colours such as black or blue.

 

[Tropjunky]

For me i'd always like a background it's better than putting loads of stuff in a tank. If you have a background then u don't need to worry about the back of the tank looking like it's got a hole in it from where ur fish has knocked a bit of ur decor off and it's cheaper to get a pice of paper then loads of rock and plants.

 

[rdd1952]

I have a solid blue background on one of my tanks. I wouldn't use anything execpt a solid color. Not of the picture backgrounds as they look to "busy" or tacky to me. The only reason I use that one is to try to hid the cords and stuff behind the tank.

 

[tishygirl]

We have a neat roman column background. Mostly all blue with a few column photo structures and a roman statue. Its fairly simple and hides all my tubes, since I'm a bubble maniac and have to have a bubble wand and an air stone bubbling roman colosseum

 

[OohFeeshy]

I prefer having a background, my 15 has no background ATM on account of using it as an anti-suicide cover.... It'll be back when the betta is out though (the clips attatching his container to the tank stop the lid fitting, I've already had one khuli jump through a less than a cm gap...)

 

[Ethos]

I kindof like em, and I'll have to put one on my 55G.
A) I'll have tons of wires
B) The walls of the room I'm keeping my 55G in is bright yellow. And I mean bright, like sunglasses bright.( well, almost )

I like the more natural back grounds, when their not tacky

 

[Fish_Mike]

It's always nice to have black or blue backgrounding, otherwise, for me, it's a big NOOO.

 

[Ethos]

but dont black backgrounds 9Say that 10 times fast) make the whole tank look dark and danky?

 

[SarahBravo]

I have plain black, dark blue and dark grey backgrounds. They may sound boring but they do seem to bring out the colours of the fish and make the whole tank seem more intense. My newest tank doesn't have a background yet - you can see the wires and the cracks in the wall behind the tank, and you don't seem to focus in the tank somehow.....

I use free wallpaper samples from my DIY shop. Gotta love free stuff!