Display Paludarium Build

[VicSkimmr]

Thanks! The plants I used are a variety of common aquatic plants for terrariums. Some cryptos, anubias, mondo grass, java fern, etc. The idea (at least for my plan) is to starve the plants of a lot of light, which helps to inhibit algae growth. Do a google search for low-tech planted aquariums to learn more about it. All of my plants were growing fine with the given amount of light.

The nice thing is that they'll also grow out of water in a vivarium quite well I didn't lose any plants in the conversion.

[Kristen87]

That's awesome that you could use all your aquatic plants still! I didn't know anubias grew out of water, might have to try that. I have java fern and anubias in a 3 foot high tank at the moment that are starting to die and I thought it was the distance from the light, but maybe they were just getting eaten by snails or something... Looks like I'll have to do some more research hehe.

[VicSkimmr]

I imagine there's a fine balance between just enough light and not enough to survive. I did have to move a few of my plants around as they were being blocked from the light by the ground area above it. My light is quite bright, so they may have been receiving more light in the water than you would first expect.

[Kristen87]

Oh ok thanks. Darn, I was excited that it looked like you had some plants thriving under the land area haha.

[VicSkimmr]

Wow I haven't updated this in a while.

The tank is still growing in nicely, but I'm considering tearing it down to put a freshwater planted tank in its place.

Then the next day I found a froglet


a couple days later


So now I'm not sure what to do, but I guess I have time to think on it since I won't be able to catch/move that guy for a while. I could potentially catch the frogs, tear down the bottom portion of the tank and replace the botton pane with something a lot thicker. Then I could potentially turn it back into a paludarium. Or I might just move the frogs to the little tank downstairs and make a nice planted freshwater tank. I'm so torn

[VicSkimmr]

more random pics


didn't realize this one was so underexposed when i hosted it

[deranged chipmunk]

Funny, even being under exposed, it's much better pic than i could have ever taken.....lol and i only skimmed this post (spoiled from the completed posts on tpt..lol) but did i see an original rhd mini in that first pic?? They are such a blast to scoot around in

[VicSkimmr]

I did have a RHD mini I ended up selling it to a friend because it spent all its time in the garage. It felt like a death trap during tourist season. It's the same reason why I haven't gotten into motorcycles despite loving them to death.