Hello, converting form reefkeeping to dart frogs

[rockytop47]

Here is what the tank looks like right now! Not much I admit, but then I had a HORRIBLE algae bloom because of the lights and I just got tired of the hassles.

[rockytop47]

[Heatheranne]

Hey Thanks Bill! I HAVEN'T begun to even research plants I'd like to have. In between work and the wife's birthday party, research, research and then some frog research, I know it'll come together. LADIES! By all means chime in! I think a ladies touch is always welcome whether a man would admit it or not. y'all seem to have an eye for detail we sometimes lack! Anywhoo, I'll be going the pink insulfoam/drylok route for my background and I'd like to do the whole back and angle in the 2 sides. The tank sits where it is in full front view from my living room and I can see it as well from the dining room table. I want a "layered" look for the plants, low in front, tall in back, "flowing" off the back wall and sides, ledges for tsillandias AND frogs, columns for depth, Blah, Blah, Blah. Got to get the wife's camera looked at and fixed or the build pics will be with my Iphone!

I am doing a similar approach in either my retf viv or my dart viv...layered back wall with cascading plants out of it, cascading waterfall down the right side and plants and pool on the main floor space it there's enough room .

[deranged chipmunk]

LOVE those perculas!! Algae is a mother isn't it? Lol i'm purposely trying to grow it, and i can't!! But it has no problem rearing it's ugly head in my planted tank, no problem.....lol

[rockytop47]

Yea Heather, that sounds AWESOME! I'm going to do my background in the color of Alabama clay, if you've ever seen it, you'll know why. Here's a link to a pic alabama red clay - Bing Images
Just found out one of our lady cashiers at work keeps a Whites dumpy, now SHE'S all about me getting up and running. Bill! We named the Perculas Jack and Dianne, hope to find them a good home, they have been entertaining and they were ORA tank raised, so they had no CLUE what an anemone was, until I shut out all the lights and shined a flashlight over the anem, they took to it literally overnight. I NEED a place online where I can get driftwood! I want a planter for my Orchid made out of a stump, I know, no pine. I'll be walking the Conecuh national forest Thursday to see if I can find a stump on my own, then using a peanut pot at work to boil it down, then home to the oven to bake. I know it's overkill, but go big or go home...

[deranged chipmunk]

I am doing a similar approach in either my retf viv or my dart viv...layered back wall with cascading plants out of it, cascading waterfall down the right side and plants and pool on the main floor space it there's enough room .

there better be enough room for a pool....i'm sending you an a$$load of plants for it saturday.....LOL

[rockytop47]

Seriously? By a$$load, you mean a bunch, or so many plants I'm going to have to move out? Or FedEx is hooking up a 53 footer right now? C'mon Bill, tell me how REALLY feel, LOL! You all all are going to talk me into a water feature yet! I saw the COOLEST fogger setup on youtube last night, the guy hasd his fogger cascading over a waterfall! It falls into the tank just like water it was so cool!. I've been frantically trying to find it ever since I've been home!

[deranged chipmunk]

jack and diane...sweet!!! here's a link for driftwood
The Planted Tank Forum

[deranged chipmunk]

well, i was actually talking to Heather, but when your's is ready for plants, the 53 footer will be pulling up to your door....lol

and you are talking about this tank
Waterfall Paludarium - Creating A to Z

[rockytop47]

That is the COOLEST Paladarium, sp? I've ever seen! Sorry about the confusion there on my part. I've read a LOT of don't do's when it comes to water and darts...Like trying to take Nyquil AND Nodoze. I'm certainly set-up for a water feature. I can even run my mister lines up through my "drain" side of my tank, I've got big enough bulkheads, large enough drain pipe, PLENTY of quarter inch quick connect elbows...?

[rockytop47]

Also, Thanks for the link Bill! I've already sent him a pm, we'll see what he's got and if he can help me out! Thanks man!

[deranged chipmunk]

That is the COOLEST Paladarium, sp? I've ever seen! Sorry about the confusion there on my part. I've read a LOT of don't do's when it comes to water and darts...Like trying to take Nyquil AND Nodoze. I'm certainly set-up for a water feature. I can even run my mister lines up through my "drain" side of my tank, I've got big enough bulkheads, large enough drain pipe, PLENTY of quarter inch quick connect elbows...?

check out this guy's build, maybe it will ease your mind about water and darts. http://www.frogforum.net/vivarium-te...aludarium.html

[rockytop47]

Yea that was an awesome build! I'm already a step ahead of the game because I can keep all my pumps under tank in my sump, hence the need for the protein skimmer, lol. All my lines would already feed under tank, making it really easy to maintain. I could even use the sump as a holding tank for my mistking and fogger(yea I want both), and could only run the skimmer as needed, when the tannins browned up my water. I'm already hooked up to an auto-topoff on my rodi, evaporation would never be an issue...ARRRGH!

[deranged chipmunk]

yeah, you can officially call me jealous.....LOL i was thinking about running a 10 gallon sump for that build, but i really hate to drill a perfectly good tank......lol so instead i made the 10 an algae tank for the tads to live in, if i ever have any

[rockytop47]

Well, just got in from walking around in the woods behind my house. I found an interesting piece of an old root for a tillandsia planter, not too big. There are a lot of vines, hanging from the trees down here, not sure what they are, but if I can figure out what they are, I'll use a couple pieces. I know it's not Kudzu...Bill I use a 6700 Kelvin lamp over my sump to help my Chaeto grow, can't understand why'd you NOT have algae. In my dealings with it, it's fairly EASY to grow and grow and grow...