Water cooling colour scheme issue

[Sida]

I've been planning my water cooling setup for a few days now. I've got most things covered (except for deciding whether to use cylinder/bay res) but I just realised I may have an issue with the colour scheme.

My plan was to use red lights on the case (fans, leds etc) and have green uv tubing however it just occured to me that it may cause a strange blend of red/green/purple once I add the uv lights. How bad do you think it will be and is there any way to get the tubing lit up without having the uv dominating the case?

Also while I'm here I figured I'd ask about the whole red/green as I simply can't find any examples of anyone who has used green tubing in a red-lit case. Do you think it will look naff? What colour schemes would you recommend if so (I know some people like plain simple themes, but I really do want it lit up, though not looking distasteful). I'm not keen on an all-blue theme either incase it gets suggested.

 

[Sida]

Ok honestly I have no idea how I put this in project logs. Can someone move it to the proper place please?

 

[Sida]

Hmm I see what you mean about the red and the UV. That's a shame as my HAF-X already has a large red fan, my mouse is red and my keyboard has a red light option. I do really want UV though, and green looks just awesome. How about blue/green? I guess the purple uv won't ruin the blue so much? And my PSU has blue leds so I guess that works.

I'm going to be playing around with the lighting a lot, but the thing I have to get right first time is the colouring. I'm cutting down on spending as much as possible and can't afford to be switching out tubes, fans, lights etc to try other colours. I would try all green but the mono-colour schemes always seem a bit plain. I'm not using dye either, just distilled water so all colour is coming from tubes and lights.

 

[Sida]

Play up the purple - purple and green!

Xigmatek do purple LED crystal fans in 120mm and 140mm sizes.

In fact 120mm is right here on OcUK:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FG-004-XG

You could still even keep the red fan in the front of your HAF and it wouldn't look so bad.

Lol, I've been worrying about what I'm going to do about all the purple light and it didn't once occur to me to use purple in the scheme! I love it. The purple and green would also look freekin sweet with the Frozen Q double helix res I plan to get in the future.

I'm thinking though, the only green will be the tubing. With all the purple uv light, it may be too much purple and not enough green if I use purple fans. You reckon green fans would look better? Maybe UV green. That way the green is the glowing focus colour sitting in a background of deep uv purple.

 

[Sida]

The first option sounds great. How many UV cathodes do you think I'll need? I've read that using two doesn't give off enough light to light the majority of the inside of the case and using 4 provides a better effect.

I'm getting a bay res so I'll put green LEDs in that. They shouldn't have too much of an effect on the rest of the case though as they're pretty limited to when you're actually looking at the res. I'm wondering how I would go about getting something like the image below as I think that would look great with a green LED. The image uses multiple LEDs and is too bright, but I'd probably just use a single one, maybe one at each end. The card will be an ATI 6950

 

[Sida]

I'm getting the XSPC Single Bay res and would really like to have the water illuminated so you can see it from the front of the case. I'll be replacing my HAF-X side panel with the one shown below so the res should really be hidden when looking through the window:

Can you put an LED inside the plexi top cpu block? Or does it have to be close to it but not inside?