I think a black background would look awesome!

very nice.. i want to do this with a 48" 45 g tank. nothing special just some firebelly newts and toads. some white cloud minnows. maybe something else.

I like white clouds because they reproduce rapidly. i had a set up simular to what i mentioned above just newts dwarf frogs and white clouds. totally self sustaned. newts and frogs would eat the white cloud fry and were too slow to catch the adults. always had around 15- 20 white clouds in the tank. white clouds would eat the hornwart thus i never had to feed this tank.

Cool, yeah I hope to keep this tank really low maintenance. I will have to figure out what fish to add, if any, down the road. I don't know how the white clouds would do cus I am heating the water?

You know, I religiously put a black background on every one of my tanks. But on this one I have decided against it. I just think cus its a rimless tank and I have a white and black asian "zen" bedroom thing going on that not having a background looks really cool. It also makes the tank look more open and airy. We'll see down the road, but for now I'm digging the look. :mrgreen:

-Diana

wow, very nice.

ahh your tanks made me catch the terrarium bug again:neutral:

very nice terrarium, can't wait to see the inhabits.

i have kept white clouds in heated and unheated tanks. they max outabout an inch. they are a mountain stream minnow.

Don't know how well orchid's will do, but bromeliads should work nice..:biggrin:

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Very nice ,but watch out, you may end up getting bit by the Dart Frog bug like me! Just what I needed another expensive hobby! That leads to the Bromeliad and orchid bug and the etc. etc. etc. bug.
Best of luck!
Keith.

Sooo sorry to do this to you guys but I went to the nursery today and got some amazing plants. So I just had to post more pictures to make everyone jealous :mrgreen:. Last pictures I promise. I really wish I could capture the colors, but pictures just don't do any of this stuff justice (but we all know that ;) ).

Full tank shots

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...ulltank4-1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2.../fulltank1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...ulltank3-1.jpg

Air plants & bromeliad on the log

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...0/leftside.jpg

Pitcher plant

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...00/pitcher.jpg

Sundew carnivorous plant

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...r00/sundew.jpg

Venus fly trap

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...ar00/venus.jpg


Cheers,
Diana