How to add color to a FOWLR tank

[phixer]

Any ideas on how to add color to a FOWLR tank. I've heard of dying dead coral skeletons but then the color quickly fades. The fake stuff just looks too...fake.

Are there any marine plants I could used that would be safe from Puffers, Triggers, Eels or large Angelfish chewing on them?

Mike Palletta mentioned in an old book about the colors of the fish fading in less colorful backrounds and that the fish were more colorful when in a colorful backround. Looking for some options.

Thanks

 

[geridoc]

I personally have always favored a neutral background (black painted rear glass, coral skeletons covered in coralline algae, and then adding color with brightly colored fish. Right now I have an adult red velvet fairy wrasse and a yellow wrasse that could burn afterimages into your eyes. Combined with a shoal of blue chromis for movement and a seagrass wrasse and you have a very pleasing display, soon to have a juvenile queen angel added.