Goth Tank - Ideas?

The manzanita driftwood looks twisted and creepy, exactly what I'm looking for. Yeah the graves would be only present in a small area of the tank and I'm sure I can make some with some sculpey and acrylic polymer to seal them. I'm planning some DIY moonlights to give it that night time look (at night of course) but maybe a red one in the right spot with the right architecture would look nifty. I'll play around with some more ideas as I ge them. Great stuff so far and I appreciate it. =)
 
Glass Cats like this always freak me out.
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Ya know, 3/4 black guppies would work out pretty well in that tank. Seriously, they look like Mortitia Adams from The Adams Family, and some of them even have black lips. :)
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(pic found through google, not mine)
 
Some of the roman ruins could be tweaked to look spooky, maybe with moss draped all over them? .
 
If you want a natural look, try limestone (yes, I know, but bear with me), blind cave fish (they naturally live in limestone caves), moonlight blue lighting, black sand, and then invest (or if you live near a good Carboniferous fossil bed, hie thee thence and find thine own) in some good crinoid or trilobite fossils.

You're not going to get any plants to survive in this though.
 
I'd say use red and black.
Ember tetras.
Black substrate
And the manzanita driftwood would look pretty cool along with it.

But then again the blind cave fish/ 3/4 black guppy look a little more 'gothy' than my ideas
 
When I went to the LFS to get some stuff to set up a 10g for my kid, he insisted on this sabertooth tiger skull. It's, of course, some sort of decorative casting but it looks pretty real. Especially now that it has a bit of algae on it so it's discolored a bit, it looks very natural and very real.

My goal for the tank is a somewhat natural small plant/fish aquarium so I wasn't
initially very psyched about the sabertooth tiger skull. Now that it's in the tank, I like it and think it works. I'll try to post a pic sometime.
 
Slate could be shaped to look gravestone-ish, sand the edges so they aren't sharp. Comes in gray, black.

Tree like wood with just tufts of moss could be creepy. Or staghorn algae would be cool if you could control it, lol, scary in more than 1 way.
 
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