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If you have regular plate glass...it may not look as white as you may think especially when you add different light spectrums to it. Here’s one I did a while back.

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Here is the starboard bottom of my new tank.

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Leave room for the silicone bead on bottom panel. This is usually 1/2”-1” depending on manufacturer. Simply measure your bead and allow for 1/16” - 1/8” from bead. This will allow starboard to lay flush on glass. Flame polish starboard and install within 30 minutes after treatment. Apply silicone to glass instead of Starboad to keep from making a mess during installation. Avoid black silicone so that the squeeze out doesn’t get on your white Starboard. This will prevent hours of work. Don’t worry about detritus that will accumulate in the crack. Makes it very easy to suck out. Also, people that didn’t silicone found very little detritus under the board even after years of use.
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I prefer StarBoard for BB tank- I like the dark gray. Coral colors pop.

They have a color for everybody. I think Grey looks good. You mostly see black or white, but I’d perfer grey over black.

I’m trying to figure out what background color to go with. Black hides overflow box and pumps, but it’s so common. I’m more of a colorful background guy. It’s hard to know what the color will actually look like.

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They have a color for everybody. I think Grey looks good. You mostly see black or white, but I’d perfer grey over black.

I’m trying to figure out what background color to go with. Black hides overflow box and pumps, but it’s so common. I’m more of a colorful background guy. It’s hard to know what the color will actually look like.

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I like those 3. I think I like the vivid blue best but I'm a black background guy (or always have been in the past).
 

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I'm with you on colorful backgrounds. I actually ordered my 294 with a blue background, but they messed up and sent me black. Since all my fish and corals were in temporary quarters, I didn't want to wait to send it back and have it redone. My 150 with a blue press-on-vinyl background is so much brighter and more appealing.
 

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Where do you get blue press on background? I have loose blue ocean background. It shows cleats and the odd thing that has fallen between the back ground and aquarium. I used to use tin foil. It sure brightened up the aquarium.
 

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Where do you get blue press on background? I have loose blue ocean background. It shows cleats and the odd thing that has fallen between the back ground and aquarium. I used to use tin foil. It sure brightened up the aquarium.
I got mine at an LFS. Unfortunately I don't remember exactly what the product was called. You spray the glass with water (there may have been some kind of soap or something mixed with it), put the background on, then slowly work any bubbles out with a squeegee. The first one I tried didn't work so well, but the one I have now has been on for four years and still looks perfect.
 
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