110 gallon Paludarium

[TropicalCreations]

Hey everyone! My name is Chris and figured I would share with everyone the paludarium I built for the AGA conference/ 2015 competition. I started this tank back in Jan. and will update it once a month and list what changes I did as well. I hope you enjoy


Day 1 of Planting:

This part was probably the most difficult part of this build. The bank in the aquatic part was so steep it took days to get the sand to stay just right.


Bump: Day four:

I had to cheat a little and use the driftwood to hold the slope some in areas it kept falling down


Bump: Day 7:

This is when the aquatic plants started to be planted. I plan on doing a dry/ wet season with this aquarium so I used plants that would best fit this wish.


Bump: Day 18:

Ignore the pots and gars on the glass. I was playing with the idea of some plants in those spots and trying to get rid of a fly issue.

Bump: Day 68:

This photo was taken two weeks before the AGA conference in DC

 

[Fat Homer]

Tank looks pretty good... although it doesn't look like you have any livestock of any sort in there?

Definitely makes me want to do another paludarium again after seeing these pics...

 

[TropicalCreations]

Tank looks pretty good... although it doesn't look like you have any livestock of any sort in there?Definitely makes me want to do another paludarium again after seeing these pics...

Here is a video I shoot last night. I apologize in advance for the video as I was shooting it with my new DSLR camera and was checking out the video section of it.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7jz86E1CME

 

[Yuki Rihwa]

Very nice works and look awesome, good luck and I hope you gonna win some prizes

 

[xraycer]

Fantastic job!!!

 

[TropicalCreations]

Here is the plant list:


Terrestrial plants:


Cissus Amazonicus
Marcgravia rectiflora
marcgravia sintenisii
Macgravia sp. Peru
Rabbits foot fern
Rhaphidophora cryptantha
Purple Passion
Anubias Nana
Begonia 'Little Darling'
Bucephlandra "Hades"
Bucephlandra "Skeleton King"
Crypt. Undulata
Crypt. sp. "Yellow Ring"




Aquatic Plants:


Dwarf Sag
Crypt. Undulata
Crypt. Wendetii
Crypt. bangkanensis
Crypt Nurii
Nymphaea sp. Santarem
Nymphaea Daubenyana
Sword "compacta"


Im sure I forgot one or two but ill post if I add more

 

[Jdreal21]

Any updates ??