Hey people. Okay, the following is my plans so far for my planted paludarium. This is not going to be my final attempt at doing this, rather a "Trial and Error"; or a draft, so I have something to learn off when constructing one on a larger scale for bigger fish.
My tank is 1220X460X460 mm and I'm running a Fluval 404 through it. I need help with in this project are; Materials for the shelf to hold substrate, technique for holding the walls together, where to put my input and output for my filter, possibly creating a waterfall with my filter output, and I'm sure I'll have a million more questions since I don't stop asking them.
In the tank at the moment are 2 Figure Eight Puffers, 10 Neons and 1 Pleco. The water is strictly fresh (the puffers were adjusted to it a year ago by previous owners), but once I have completly sorted out my dry land and tank, I'll be removing Neons, Pleco and some of the Aquatic Plants. So then I will be slowly adjusting the tank to brackish water and adding my friends Archers in once the waters right.
Here are some rough ideas of what I want to accomplish.
Note: This is not all that will be in the tank, I'm just showing how I am thinking of doing the Dry land part of it.
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Question Time:
1. For the walls, I was thinking of using Clear Perspex Acrylic. Attached with a lot of strong silicone. And possibly some small strips of perspex where the substrate will be (between tank wall and perspex) siliconed in for extra support. Will this be strong enough?
2. I have looked at lots of different paludariums on the net. Many of them have the platforms made out of carved resin or rocks whatever, but i want mine to be different and actually grow land plants like a raised garden or riverbank. The hood on the aquarium will be pretty high at the back of the tank, giving the plants room to grow.
3. Which of the diagrams do you think would be best? Just the back wall, or the L Shaped garden.
4. In the raised land, I'm planning on having; a few small pieces of driftwood hanging over the ledge and some into the water, for the archer fish to shoot bugs of. Some small plants like grass, moss or some plants from a specific region if i choose to stick to a specific biotope. Would plants work, what would be the pros and cons and what plants would look good?
5. Also, I'm going to have a go at growing some mangroves (in NZ we only have the "Grey Mangrove". I don't know how successful it will be, but I may as well give it a go. I was thinking that if I tried growing them in the dry land, the roots might push out the perspex? Or I could try growing them fully submerged.
Well thats all the questions for now LOL! Oh and, Do you think this could work at all or am I just wasting my time? Any Suggestions would be great!
Thank you for taking the time to read ALL of this, ill be back with more questions very soon
My tank is 1220X460X460 mm and I'm running a Fluval 404 through it. I need help with in this project are; Materials for the shelf to hold substrate, technique for holding the walls together, where to put my input and output for my filter, possibly creating a waterfall with my filter output, and I'm sure I'll have a million more questions since I don't stop asking them.
In the tank at the moment are 2 Figure Eight Puffers, 10 Neons and 1 Pleco. The water is strictly fresh (the puffers were adjusted to it a year ago by previous owners), but once I have completly sorted out my dry land and tank, I'll be removing Neons, Pleco and some of the Aquatic Plants. So then I will be slowly adjusting the tank to brackish water and adding my friends Archers in once the waters right.
Here are some rough ideas of what I want to accomplish.
Note: This is not all that will be in the tank, I'm just showing how I am thinking of doing the Dry land part of it.
or
Question Time:
1. For the walls, I was thinking of using Clear Perspex Acrylic. Attached with a lot of strong silicone. And possibly some small strips of perspex where the substrate will be (between tank wall and perspex) siliconed in for extra support. Will this be strong enough?
2. I have looked at lots of different paludariums on the net. Many of them have the platforms made out of carved resin or rocks whatever, but i want mine to be different and actually grow land plants like a raised garden or riverbank. The hood on the aquarium will be pretty high at the back of the tank, giving the plants room to grow.
3. Which of the diagrams do you think would be best? Just the back wall, or the L Shaped garden.
4. In the raised land, I'm planning on having; a few small pieces of driftwood hanging over the ledge and some into the water, for the archer fish to shoot bugs of. Some small plants like grass, moss or some plants from a specific region if i choose to stick to a specific biotope. Would plants work, what would be the pros and cons and what plants would look good?
5. Also, I'm going to have a go at growing some mangroves (in NZ we only have the "Grey Mangrove". I don't know how successful it will be, but I may as well give it a go. I was thinking that if I tried growing them in the dry land, the roots might push out the perspex? Or I could try growing them fully submerged.
Well thats all the questions for now LOL! Oh and, Do you think this could work at all or am I just wasting my time? Any Suggestions would be great!
Thank you for taking the time to read ALL of this, ill be back with more questions very soon
