Blackwater guru
Fish Fanatic
So I have been keeping my first aquarium so far for nearly a year now which is a 145 l freshwater aquarium filled with roiboi tea to add tannins to the tank without affecting the pH negatively and a large piece of hollow wild caught treated driftwood for my cories to hide under or behind during the day .
I keep 30 tetras which are 15 rummy nose tetras and 15 wild caught cardinal tetras , 4 wild caught marbled hatchetfish , 5 corydoras duplicareus catfish and 4 otocinclus catfish.
I recently graduated high school and I am pursuing a higher education and eventually I am going to move out from home.
Once I have the right amount of money space and time which might take quite a while to happen I hope I can get to work on my first paludarium build and my first attempt at keeping reptiles.
I will migrate my various fish to that new and bigger enclosure which will be intended to replicate the native environment of my fish in the most intricate of details such as possibly adding a built in rain system and sticking to only plants native to the area I am trying to recreate.
I was also thinking of how in the amazon jungle the rivers are commonly located above large trees and canopy so if I could somehow create a canopy area above the water with a safety net under it for aboreal reptiles and a ground area+basking area for semi aquatic reptiles like turtles that would be perfect.
I was thinking of making a bioactive enclosure that can be at the very least somewhat self sufficient such as a bottom layer filled with isopods and springtails that keep things nice and clean.
When it comes to reptiles there are a lot of choices but only a few are actually going to work for me and they have to leave the fish alone such as dart frogs or tree frogs or other reptiles that are insectivores.
My fish do eat insects and small crustaceans as well so it would be the best option by far.
I am not an expert at this but I have looked at quite a few videos regarding the topic and I did see one beautiful paludarium that used an arduino combined with a raspberry pi to make it rain in the enclosure + very beautiful lighting effects.
I keep 30 tetras which are 15 rummy nose tetras and 15 wild caught cardinal tetras , 4 wild caught marbled hatchetfish , 5 corydoras duplicareus catfish and 4 otocinclus catfish.
I recently graduated high school and I am pursuing a higher education and eventually I am going to move out from home.
Once I have the right amount of money space and time which might take quite a while to happen I hope I can get to work on my first paludarium build and my first attempt at keeping reptiles.
I will migrate my various fish to that new and bigger enclosure which will be intended to replicate the native environment of my fish in the most intricate of details such as possibly adding a built in rain system and sticking to only plants native to the area I am trying to recreate.
I was also thinking of how in the amazon jungle the rivers are commonly located above large trees and canopy so if I could somehow create a canopy area above the water with a safety net under it for aboreal reptiles and a ground area+basking area for semi aquatic reptiles like turtles that would be perfect.
I was thinking of making a bioactive enclosure that can be at the very least somewhat self sufficient such as a bottom layer filled with isopods and springtails that keep things nice and clean.
When it comes to reptiles there are a lot of choices but only a few are actually going to work for me and they have to leave the fish alone such as dart frogs or tree frogs or other reptiles that are insectivores.
My fish do eat insects and small crustaceans as well so it would be the best option by far.
I am not an expert at this but I have looked at quite a few videos regarding the topic and I did see one beautiful paludarium that used an arduino combined with a raspberry pi to make it rain in the enclosure + very beautiful lighting effects.
