Hey I'm new here, I've only posted a few time but I've been looking around for awhile. I keep snakes and turtles but I've recently have become interested in fish and planted tanks. I've looked at a lot of the ones on here and they look awesome. I've built several vivariums before and I enjoy doing it so this is right up my ally.
I've recently reorganized my room (senior in high school, still living at home) and moved my animals around and I have this, what I believe to be a 36g tank with stand. I got it from a friend two years ago, it was his aunts reef fish tank but I guess it had a leak in it and was throwing it out. Since then I've just used it to house a corn snake and a black rat snake(not at the same time of course!).
I've resealed the sides and have it filled with water at the moment to check for leaks. Its been about 4hours now and I've been checking it hourly and so far it seems like I got where ever the leak was.
Now once I'm sure its 100% ok I'll start working on this. I'm hoping to possibly make a paludarium although I don't think I'll be putting anything in that would use the land and it would just be for looks, so the land would probably not be very high at all and just be for short plants. I'm not sure if I'm going to do a paludarium yet though because it might not be enough room to work with. The tank is 36"L x 12"D x 20"T, and I want enough room to house a decent number of decent sized fish.
For inhabitants all I have in mind so far are a pair of rams, a snail that isn't to harsh on the plants, and maybe a colony of ghost shrimp or another similar species of shrimp. Any other ideas would be awesome.
I'm hoping to use this thread to help me with any questions I have along the way, if anyone wants to give me tips, and as a journal to post updates as I construct it. Heres what I'm working with so far.
and a cool picture of my snapping turtle I thought I'd just throw out there lol.
I've recently reorganized my room (senior in high school, still living at home) and moved my animals around and I have this, what I believe to be a 36g tank with stand. I got it from a friend two years ago, it was his aunts reef fish tank but I guess it had a leak in it and was throwing it out. Since then I've just used it to house a corn snake and a black rat snake(not at the same time of course!).
I've resealed the sides and have it filled with water at the moment to check for leaks. Its been about 4hours now and I've been checking it hourly and so far it seems like I got where ever the leak was.
Now once I'm sure its 100% ok I'll start working on this. I'm hoping to possibly make a paludarium although I don't think I'll be putting anything in that would use the land and it would just be for looks, so the land would probably not be very high at all and just be for short plants. I'm not sure if I'm going to do a paludarium yet though because it might not be enough room to work with. The tank is 36"L x 12"D x 20"T, and I want enough room to house a decent number of decent sized fish.
For inhabitants all I have in mind so far are a pair of rams, a snail that isn't to harsh on the plants, and maybe a colony of ghost shrimp or another similar species of shrimp. Any other ideas would be awesome.
I'm hoping to use this thread to help me with any questions I have along the way, if anyone wants to give me tips, and as a journal to post updates as I construct it. Heres what I'm working with so far.
and a cool picture of my snapping turtle I thought I'd just throw out there lol.
