I love the picture backgrounds and use them in my biggest tanks though really the plants block most of the picture. I dont use any backgrounds though in my fry tanks.
Aquarium backgrounds
- Thread starter Grundy
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i've got a background in mine, it's loads of jungle plants, looks deadly....i just realised after i bought it that it's for a terrarium but i think it looks really good.better than lookin a the wallpaper behind it!
my bf has one thats just a load of rocks like a cliff or something, that looks cool too
my bf has one thats just a load of rocks like a cliff or something, that looks cool too
I have this background on my tank it's waterproof & self adhesive. http://www.thatpetplace.com/Product...On/T1/F05CX+0413+0014/EDP/40504/Itemdy00.aspx The pics are cool. I know lots of folks who have no b/g at all. Guess it's just a preference.
I went natural for years, gravel, dritwood, plants, and dark background. All had to have the most natural look I could get in a rectangular glass box. I had some awesome tanks! Man I was anal! :joke: The kids are getting interested now, and since they are only young and interested in anything you do for a short while I've found my tanks changing. I've got resin coral reefs and bubbles in my freshwater 40 gallon breeder, we are picking out items to turn the 55 into a mountain Asian village complete with stream, bridges, and houses. They are now hinting for a 10 gallon in their room with a Nick toons theme, "Sponge Bob". They are begining to look like the tanks I had as a kid.
Anyone remember the skeletons at the ship's wheel or with the rum jug that moved when you hooked up an air line?
So to get to the point, my backgrounds now are in theme or as bright as the kids can find! I'm finding that while I may not have chosen them myself, the fish nor I will mind in the long run.
I have also relearned a valuable lesson from my humble beginings before worrying about my chichlids pairing up or who I knew had the best looking fish and tank, keeping fish is fun. Fun for kids of all ages. Now I think that all that thinking you can recreate a slice of nature in a 10-20-40 gallon box is just pretense and ego.
Sorry, I'll shut up and put up my soap box now, before someone calls me a 13 year old troll. :joke:
Anyone remember the skeletons at the ship's wheel or with the rum jug that moved when you hooked up an air line?
So to get to the point, my backgrounds now are in theme or as bright as the kids can find! I'm finding that while I may not have chosen them myself, the fish nor I will mind in the long run.
I have also relearned a valuable lesson from my humble beginings before worrying about my chichlids pairing up or who I knew had the best looking fish and tank, keeping fish is fun. Fun for kids of all ages. Now I think that all that thinking you can recreate a slice of nature in a 10-20-40 gallon box is just pretense and ego.
Sorry, I'll shut up and put up my soap box now, before someone calls me a 13 year old troll. :joke:
I have a black poster board on the back of my planted 20Gallon but on my other tanks I don't have a back ground. However, our basement is finished and when my parents bought the house the interior was modeled after a barn so everything was covered in this dark wood panaling. The upstairs has since been updated but the basement still has the rough barnyard siding. Behind the tanks it doesn't look half bad!
