ok, so i got to do a bit of work tonight. my main concentration was "sealing" the aquatic section from the false bottom. this was a very important step for this build because it will be housing shrimp and fish, and i cannot allow them to get underneath the false bottom and possibly die there, polluting my water. so what i did was cut pieces of egg crate to appropriate lengths and heights, and then i wrapped them in weed blocking sheet, then tied it up with brown monofilament fishing line. yes, i could have used fiberglass screening, but baby shrimp can get through that. and since i have like a grillion feet of this stuff and no mosquito netting, i went with it. we'll see if that is a mistake when i get to the water testing portion of the build. here's the left side land mass :
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i took a bunch of pics from the top so that you can see the different diameters of pipe i am using for my supports. because the mass is 5" to it's bottom, and space is limited because i have to install a filter and heater under there, i combined 3" pipe and 2" pipe on the land section. 2" pipe for the shallow water section. height was the factor there. it's only 3"to the bottom of the shallow section, so 2" pipe will suffice. the right side also uses 2" and 3" pipe.

in the next couple pics, you can see my filter, a fluval nano, which has served me well for years in shrimp tanks, in the top left corner.


i also worked on my fogger setup. i plan on using an ultrasonic fogger. not so much for adding humidity to the tank. the aquatic section will handle that task very well, but for the cool effect it should give on that cool stump!! i mean come on, that stump just is begging to be planted and fogged out....lol now, the thing i have learned and hated about ultrasonic foggers is the fact that they shoot water EVERYWHERE!! or so it seems. it actually does shoot a small fountain up about 2-5". so the difficult thing with them is concealing it. after about 6 hours of testing the fogger in all sorts of containers, and trying to control the fountain, i remembered someone gave me a few of these containers a while back. don't ask me what they are used for, but for some reason i can't help but think it was racquetball balls. so anyway, i played with it for about an hour, and came up with this contraption:


i didn't cut the bottom off, because i needed the height right where it is. actually, i wish it was an inch longer, then it wouldn't have to sit on a rock i siliconed to the bottom of the tank. but that's fine, there will be rocks covering it from view anyway. i drilled some holes into the sides so that it can get a fresh water supply and not go stagnant, and notched the top portion to direct the fog. there is also a lid for this as well. it hides the fountain and also directs the fog. this also needed to be accessible in case i need to replace the fogger's membrane. here it is covered up:

this is what it looks like with it before the wood was replaced, and after:



and don't worry, that moss is getting scraped off and the stump baked (again!) before it goes in for real. that's it for tonight, i think it took me longer to type this than to do the actual work...LOL