Made a paludarium last summer/fall.
55 gal bow front.
Like many of my tanks undirectional flow going left to right and circulating around behind the rockwork with a 5000L/hr circulation pump and filtered by a 1200L/hr canister. The canister outlet is in a small pool which creates a mini waterfall and then flows along the top section as a small tributary stream that enters the main water at the far left of the tank.
It was made to simulate a forest tributary stream with lots of riparian growth. The base is a PVC frame with black lava rock siliconed into place and filled with expanding foam.
Plants
All easy plants with no CO2
Anubias (a lot)
Bucephalandra (about 6 or 7 varieties)
Java Fern Windelov
lots of moss
I think rotala above water
Mondo grass
2 species of crypts (immersed and on land)
Lots of monte carlo
creepers
and a few other plants
Fish
10 x dwarf chain loach ( Ambastaia sidthimunki )
8 x glowlight danios (Celestichthys choprae)
6 x stiphodon ornatus
4 x orange finned danio ( Danio kyathit )
2 x Otocinclus
2 x Bamboo shrimp
8 x blue cherry shrimp which I highly suspect have become a snack
The Bamboo shrimp which don't often come into the light. They have perches behind the rockwork directly in the circulation pump flow.
Buce and anubias
Moss, crypt, premna tree, creeper and monte carlo. Oh and frogbit too. This is the last section of tributary before it reaches the tank water.
Top of the stream below the "waterfall".
Mondo grass, buce rhizomes which finally took, monte carlo. This pic is below the one above where water trickles down the slope.
I had a pair of scarlett badis in here. They were doing really well. I eventually decided to move them into a tank with 3 other scarlett badis in a 10gal tank designed for them.
Dwarf chain loach horde
Rarely seen oto chilling where the tributary runs into the tank.
55 gal bow front.
Like many of my tanks undirectional flow going left to right and circulating around behind the rockwork with a 5000L/hr circulation pump and filtered by a 1200L/hr canister. The canister outlet is in a small pool which creates a mini waterfall and then flows along the top section as a small tributary stream that enters the main water at the far left of the tank.
It was made to simulate a forest tributary stream with lots of riparian growth. The base is a PVC frame with black lava rock siliconed into place and filled with expanding foam.
Plants
All easy plants with no CO2
Anubias (a lot)
Bucephalandra (about 6 or 7 varieties)
Java Fern Windelov
lots of moss
I think rotala above water
Mondo grass
2 species of crypts (immersed and on land)
Lots of monte carlo
creepers
and a few other plants
Fish
10 x dwarf chain loach ( Ambastaia sidthimunki )
8 x glowlight danios (Celestichthys choprae)
6 x stiphodon ornatus
4 x orange finned danio ( Danio kyathit )
2 x Otocinclus
2 x Bamboo shrimp
8 x blue cherry shrimp which I highly suspect have become a snack
The Bamboo shrimp which don't often come into the light. They have perches behind the rockwork directly in the circulation pump flow.
Buce and anubias
Moss, crypt, premna tree, creeper and monte carlo. Oh and frogbit too. This is the last section of tributary before it reaches the tank water.
Top of the stream below the "waterfall".
Mondo grass, buce rhizomes which finally took, monte carlo. This pic is below the one above where water trickles down the slope.
I had a pair of scarlett badis in here. They were doing really well. I eventually decided to move them into a tank with 3 other scarlett badis in a 10gal tank designed for them.
Dwarf chain loach horde
Rarely seen oto chilling where the tributary runs into the tank.
