What are some African plants that could survive in a riparum environment? I'm hoping to make an African biotope and I was wondering what plants would work. Pictures would be awesome! Thanks
African Riparium Plants?
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Hey here are a few ideas...
Open-top, "pond style" riparium
High-humidity riparium
Open-top, "pond style" riparium
- Cyperus 'Baby Tut'
- Anubias hastifolia
- Bolbitis fern (with adaptation period to grow emersed)
- Avicennia germinans black mangrove
- mangrove leather fern
- various emersed aquarium stem plants, certain Bacopa and others
High-humidity riparium
- various Anubias
- Bolbitis fern
- various aquarium mosses
ideas:
Nymphoides
Anubius
you'd have to find the species that is specifically africa but there ya go for two broad ideas
Nymphoides
Anubius
you'd have to find the species that is specifically africa but there ya go for two broad ideas
If you do a high-humidity riparium the best kind of emersed midground plant would be Anubias barteri var. nana. And this is the best way to plant them, with several rhizomes on the larger trellis raft, the view from underneath...
I have a high humidity paludarium in progress for my ACFs and it contains; Anubias barteri 'nana', Anubias Hastifolia, Saintpaulia inconspicua, and Lemna minor.
It's probably going to be open pond style as the main animal in it is going to be an African helmeted turtle, and depending on her tolerance to fish, possibly some African fish and cichlids.
Brewster320;5130187; said:
We have 3 helmeted turtles. They are laid back most of the time unless something catches their interest. Put a 4" comet in with thm to see what they'd do. There is no more comet.
Does that turtle bask? If it does then you won't be able to keep any plants on trellis rafts because he will trample them. There are several nice sturdy plant that you could keep in hanging planters though. If he basks then he'll also nice a separate floating basking platform off to one side.
Ripariums are generally a lot better for fish than for turtles and frogs. Ripariums don't have any real land area.
Ripariums are generally a lot better for fish than for turtles and frogs. Ripariums don't have any real land area.
It is a basking species but from what I've read they aren't a frequent basker. I've et to see mine climb onto her basking site. I was going to construct a different basking structure anyways. I know someone on this site does have a red ear slider in a riparium without issues so I'd assume the less active, more bottom reselling species would be ok. And I guess I'll have to see what she does with fish.