BareBottom Tanks question

[afamousjohnson]

So I was just lying under my tank looking up at a completely open bare bottom tank. Tank is 48"x24". My original idea does utilize some light getting thru to sump to show off a painted design on the front of it but that is going to be a lot of light even once I get my rock structures in.

What have others done under the bare bottom? I don't want to totally diffuse light and I like the fact of being able to see up under but I think I need to diffuse it a bit. Any ideas? Or things folks have done.

What do folks do under the tank to show thru as the bottom? Heard painting it white or black? Anything else?

 

[ritter6788]

My stand on my display has a wood top. My frag tank I built and didn't add the top. I didn't like the light coming through so I put a couple cardboard panels between the bottom of the tank and the stand. I can pull them out real quick if I needed to.

 

[afamousjohnson]

ya I was thinking about doing a cut out poster board type design. Figure down the road it will all be Covered anyways. Heard of peeps doing things to make it look like sand?

 

[ritter6788]

I picked up some tumbled marble tiles from Lowes for growing out frags on. After placing them in the tank I thought they would make a nice bare bottom substrate.


These are cut in half already. They are about dollar bill sized to begin with.

 

[afamousjohnson]

Gonna have to hop over and check out your thread. Sounds like a good idea not to mention I need some tiles for some zoas n chalice grow out. Thanks for the input ritter