To Paint or Not to Paint?

[Enigma]

Craig: What are you doing to the aquarium?
Shelley: I'm taping it off to paint the back black.
Craig: Don't do that! Why the heck would you do that!!!???
Shelley: Brad told me to.
Craig: Who is Brad?
Shelley: Some dude on the Internet.

Works for me.

But, in all seriousness, could moving the lighting fixture towards the rear wall of the tank offset some of the effect of painting the back?

Also, could we expect the same effect from LEDs? The T5 fixture will only be temporary: until we have the opportunity to build the LED fixture.