What colour for background (SORTED page 2)

[Aquila]

Yeah put it a bit lower Warm water rises! And soon those plants will cover up the rest of it.

Looks good

[SamH]

I hid my heater behind the plants, still goes fine. Too bad they don't make subtley coloured heaters...

If you put enough light and not enough CO2 and ferts, you can have a lovely green wall like mine. Hopefully the new Otto's will get onto it soon.

[twinkles]

i think the blue backing makes tanks look deeper, as if behind the rocks and plants there's a big open blue pond, and the black makes everything in front stand out much more, shrinks the area that grabs your attention to the main plants and fish. I have black on two of my tanks and one with metallic blue textured paper, might try plain blue next time.

Yours looks great

[diver21]

I hid my heater behind the plants, still goes fine. Too bad they don't make subtley coloured heaters...

now theres an idea

[phoenix44]

they do make subtly coloured heaters. the new fluvals cost a bomb but are a mirror, so take up the colour of the surrounding.

[JazzyJeff]

they do make subtly coloured heaters. the new fluvals cost a bomb but are a mirror, so take up the colour of the surrounding.

Now these sound great Phoenix! How small wattage wise do they go and just how pricey are they?

[phoenix44]

they come in 100, 200 and 300 watts.

I think they start at like $100 and are up to $130 or so.

[darkfur]

sometimes they look better with a heater cover over them if you can find one of those matte black ones

[Zev]

Rena do a nice smart heater, it is black and you can lay it down virtually on the gravel, it has the evil HAL eye, though, that indicates if there is a discrepancy in the temp setting and the actual temp.