Quote Originally Posted by Bombina Bob View Post
Hi there
More room is always great! with a 120 gallon you can fit in six ACFs but i dont know
or think you would want any more, the ACFs rarely come out of the water and usually
if it's a drought. The Palidarium style seems great! but i would suggest much more water
than land. if your planning to do a 120 gallon setup with trhe paludarium, you can silicon
egg crate to the top where the land is and use PVC pipes to support that, then when
finished, a foam backround covering all plastics used can be covered, i dont know if
this will be an option since you want less land but if this dosent work, you could
always have pieces of land floating, notlike plain corkbark but maybe something
larger with a few plants.

Good luck with your build!
The reason I'd like to try the paludarium is because I do like plants and I would love a nicely 'scaped lush tank. Quite frankly terrestrial plants are just cheaper and all the CO2 you need is in the air.. water has much less CO2 obviously. I'm YouTubin' all the methods for these tanks, it seems involved so I don't know if I will have this project done in the near future lol..

I do like the style though, I am not a risk taker and having an 'awesome' planted tank requires CO2, fertilizers, and strong lights. I don't want to blast my frogs with lights and poison them with fertilizers and CO2 gas.. I would obviously have more of a 75% water 25% land paludarium vs the 50/50 or 75/25 land/water ones I've seen. I will add aquatic plants but I'll just keep the kind that suck up nitrates, not for show.

I fully do not expect the frogs to care for any land. They simply do not leave the water unless in dire straits, this is true. They may enjoy being able to rest near the land though, they do hunt terrestrial insects in this way in nature. I thought it may be a more natural set up, and look rather awesome too.

I may add more frogs. I am not sure yet, to add frogs I need a 'grow out' tank because I can't find any frogs sold in stores large enough to coexist with my current group. I would just be effectively feeding the frogs to add any store bought frog at this time. I am pretty sure I have three female frogs at this point though, I kind of like the idea that I won't have to deal with mating, eggs, tadpoles, cannibalism....ect..