We started working on the large tank tonight. We should have a lot more done on it tomorrow :-) This is our rough plan for the layout (plenty of small tweaks to the design still to come). The black plastic webbing will be the base for the land area, the rest will be water which will house a bunch of Red Cherry Shrimp. We are going to use ecoweb and hygrolon for the background. There will be a fair amount of hygrolon and Aquamat attached to the branches as well. One of the hopes is to let this tank grow in quite thick so I'm hoping the hygrolon will give me a hand in achieving that. We have a couple more small branches and a small stump like piece that will be added to the land area but are in Chub's (the milk frog) current enclosure.

The overall design



The root area. This is all Manzanita that I gathered from northern California.



This is a close up of the material that I'm using in place of a traditional false bottom. It's a rigid spun plastic that I got from a local pond store. I still have to cover it in screening and then Aquamat will be placed around the edges to keep the shrimp out.



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