300gal plywood paludarium project

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Here are a few updates after the initial round of planting. The plants so far are:

submerged - anbias nana, java fern 'narrow', java fern 'trident' and a little bit of bolbitis heudelotii.

emersed - riccia covering most of the ecoweb, a tiny bit of christmas moss, two types of selaginella, white rabbit's foot fern, pteris fern, pepromia 'mini melons' and three neos (not sure on the IDs).

It's only been a week or so, but so far none of the plants have really taken off. I think the tank really needs more foliage so I'm on the lookout for other plants that will work well in this setup.

Also, as you can tell from the pics, my fan system isn't quite able to keep the glass clear. I hoping for it to be a pure air circulation system but that didn't really do anything to de-fog the glass so I have some small openings in the top for ventilation. I may replace the current 50mm fans with some 80mm fans to more more air.

Overall tank:


Closeups of the water area (believe it or not, there are 11 good-sized clown loaches and a flag tailed prochilodus hiding in the shadows there):




Closeups of the top part (notice all the water streaming down the background):





 
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That's really amazing!! You did a really good job with making it look natural.
 
awesome job man...
 
Biggest reason I'm annoyed at myself for not taking the sand......I didn't get to stop by and check this thing out in person:ROFL:

Its looking awesome man. What are you planning to keep in it?

edit: I just read the rest of this last page....I think the ropefish would be awesome with frogs & clown loaches.
 
Moloch;4615324; said:
Biggest reason I'm annoyed at myself for not taking the sand......I didn't get to stop by and check this thing out in person:ROFL:

Its looking awesome man. What are you planning to keep in it?

edit: I just read the rest of this last page....I think the ropefish would be awesome with frogs & clown loaches.

2nd that... well 3rd since i originally think it was my idea lol
 
nice work!!!!
 
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