300gal plywood paludarium project

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I saw this tank in person guys, and trust me pictures DON'T do it justice. This tank is AMAZING. Lets just put it this way, I have a 75 gallon tank, that my girlfriend soon to be fiance was making me get rid of because we will be moving a lot. I was trying to convince her to let me keep it, and after she saw this tank, she said I can keep it as long as I promise to build her a tank like this once we settle in. Now if that's not proof to how awesome this tank is, I don't know what to tell you.
 
the_deeb;4588641; said:
Great suggestions, tscharf and Noto. As far as emergents, I was thinking it would be nice to get some sort of lilly/lotus, but I don't want it to completely overtake the water section. Might do some sort of floater instead, but I think the lilly would look best, and the stems would give the fish some more cover. I might add in a couple of hydrophyte's riparium rafts in the back so that plants can start out growing there and hopefully work their way up the background.

I'm going to try some of the java fern trident and riccia emersed. Bolbitis would be cool too. Pitcher plants would be my carnivorous plant of choice if I can get one to survive in there as an epiphyte - I love the way those things look.

I may add in some more loaches. I like the look of kubotai. For long fish I was thinking I might get some sort of spiny eel (not fire or tiretrack - I think they grow too big) or some ropefish. I'd like to get some dolphin morymids too if I can find them and maybe archers. My wife thinks a stingray would look great in there and I agree, so I'll be keeping my eyes open for a male hystrix.

I think dartfrogs would be awesome (I've been posting this build journal on dendroboard as well), though there's a lot more water in the setup than is typical. Once some floating plants get established it would probably work out. I also don't want to deal with breeding fruit flies in my apartment right now. Maybe some time in the future.
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as for the morymids make sure there the same species, my dad mixed a elephant nose and a dolphin whale in the same tank and the elephant nose killed the dolphin whale. im sure you probablly know but these fish are slightly electric so be careful what you put in there with them.
 
jrpsaros;4596617; said:
I saw this tank in person guys, and trust me pictures DON'T do it justice. This tank is AMAZING. Lets just put it this way, I have a 75 gallon tank, that my girlfriend soon to be fiance was making me get rid of because we will be moving a lot. I was trying to convince her to let me keep it, and after she saw this tank, she said I can keep it as long as I promise to build her a tank like this once we settle in. Now if that's not proof to how awesome this tank is, I don't know what to tell you.
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Ha! Thanks man. Glad I could help out :)

The loaches seem to be settling in well, except for the big guy who's still pretty shy. I'm planning on moving the rest of my loaches in tonight so hopefully the extra company will perk him up.

I've gotten the first round of planting done and I think the tank is looking even better. I'll post more pics when I get the air circulation system installed.
 
cant wait, how long did you let the tank cycle before introducing fish?
 
tscharf;4599844; said:
how long did you let the tank cycle before introducing fish?
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Only a couple of days, but I've temporarily added some canisters filters from another tank that's already running. I've got the dripwall running now and once the riccia and other plants start to take hold I doubt I should have any ammonia problems.
 
yea you shouldnt have any problem with ammonia at all
 
Great job- put some plants in the water section and your instantly cycled! Very realistic background. Its a shame how much work we put into the background but as soon as the plants start to grow in- it dissapears.
 
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