WhistlingBadger
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Set this one up yesterday. I recently got a pair of scarlet badis and two firebelly toads for my 55g paludarium, but they're both way too small to play with the big boys. The toads will go in the 55 once they grow up a bit, but not the badis. They probably won't get any bigger than their current size of <1". I appear to have confused the scarlet badis (Dario dario) with Badis badis, which gets about three times as big. So, they're probably in here for good. I am fairly sure I have a male-female pair, so who knows; maybe in a species tank they'll give us some babies.
For good measure, we added around a dozen huge (c. 1") scuds we found in a pond yesterday. Hopefully their babies will keep the badis fed.
So, here it is. Unlike most of my tanks, with this one I've made absolutely no effort to recreate a certain place. I just tried to create the healthiest badis and frog habitat possible. The frogs are currently hanging out on some floating water fern and rhododendron. They'll have a moss-covered, floating island to live on as soon as the paint dries. Water is still a little cloudy from fresh substrate, but that should clear up soon.
Check out the size of that scud. There are at least a dozen of them in here.
Such photogenic little guys...
For good measure, we added around a dozen huge (c. 1") scuds we found in a pond yesterday. Hopefully their babies will keep the badis fed.
So, here it is. Unlike most of my tanks, with this one I've made absolutely no effort to recreate a certain place. I just tried to create the healthiest badis and frog habitat possible. The frogs are currently hanging out on some floating water fern and rhododendron. They'll have a moss-covered, floating island to live on as soon as the paint dries. Water is still a little cloudy from fresh substrate, but that should clear up soon.
Check out the size of that scud. There are at least a dozen of them in here.
Such photogenic little guys...