My new Paludarium

[Diana]

I did some tinkering today. I am just loving playing in this tank. I can't wait to get some orchids and stuff in there:










-Diana

[PoonTang]

Wow very cool. I saw one like that yesterday. It had neons in the water and water dragons living in it.

[viperfish]

I think a black background would look awesome!

[ElGuappo]

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.

[Diana]

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?

Originally Posted by medhatreefguy

I think a black background would look awesome!

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.

-Diana

[mark]

wow, very nice.

[LeeR]

ahh your tanks made me catch the terrarium bug again

[steve fedyk]

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

[ElGuappo]

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

[dsaundry]

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