How to Build a Paludarium

[brotherd]

Originally Posted by sphelps

Thanks guys. No real plans for livestock yet as I'm not very experienced in the fresh water and haven't done much research. Open to any suggestions for some fish that are good with plants and the theme, also things like vampire crabs caught my eye just don't know much about them. The main goal is to keep maintenance down, don't want anything that requires special feeding on a regular bases, the whole point of this transformation was to have something I can essentially leave unattended for weeks without issue.

Pisces had some cool looking little frogs. Black with yellow stripes. Don't recall the species though.That is looking very cool!

[lorenz0]

Originally Posted by brotherd

Pisces had some cool looking little frogs. Black with yellow stripes. Don't recall the species though.That is looking very cool!

Those are dendrobates Tinctorius (dart frogs), As of last december dart frogs are not illegal to keep as pets in alberta. Debating if they know about the law yet. Besides that, tank looks amazing.

[Myka]

Originally Posted by lorenz0

As of last december dart frogs are not illegal to keep as pets in alberta. Debating if they know about the law yet.

I think you got your words mixed up. As of December 2014 dart frogs are banned in Alberta. Not sure why...seems well intentioned, but ill-informed.

[sphelps]

So added some livestock, just a bunch of random stuff. Will see what does well and what doesn't then clean things up a little. Some of the plants have been in there now for over 3 weeks and all seem to be doing well.

[sphelps]

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[sphelps]

For fish I added 4 discuss, 4 gouramis and 3 clown loaches. All seem to be doing well.

[sphelps]

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