anyone ever do native paludarium???

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Hey as the title says im curious to know if anyone has every thought or tried to do it. i think it would look super cool having a lake side paludarium with bullrushes and cattails sticking out.

the idea came to me from this photo. I'd love to see something like this but with reeds sticking out and almost a down tree in the water style. Imagine the possibilities. various native minnows, sunfish, perch would be super cool

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Owain4;5026217; said:
Hey as the title says im curious to know if anyone has every thought or tried to do it. i think it would look super cool having a lake side paludarium with bullrushes and cattails sticking out.

the idea came to me from this photo. I'd love to see something like this but with reeds sticking out and almost a down tree in the water style. Imagine the possibilities. various native minnows, sunfish, perch would be super cool
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Sounds like a cool idea to me.

I'll have to look into doing something along those lines because I have been wanting to do a planted aquarium for quite some time now. If I did a natives planted aquarium, then I would probably end up doing various sunfish and maybe some minnows, and I would use some of the cattails from my pond since they are spreading like wildfire.
 
What you are describing sounds like a riparium (emergent plants, but no emersed land portion). I have set up a couple of those. They are lots of fun, and great for weedy backwater fish like pickerel, warmouth, dwarf sunfish, etc, as well as many amphibians and invertebrates (not all in the same tank, of course). The fish show their best colors with lots of vegetation around them.

Check for posts in the planted tank subforum by hydrophyte to see some really nice ripariums (not native, but should still give you some good ideas).

Just be sure to size your plants to the space available or you'll be overwhelmed. Native cattails and some bulrushes spread aggressively and get prohibitively tall; unless you have a very large tank, go for dwarf cattails (Typha minima, available from many nurseries and pond suppliers) or smaller, tamer emergents such as Eleocharis, Juncus, Cyperus, and Equisetum species.
 
This has definitely crossed my mind a few times but I have yet to actually set one up.:)
 
i would love to do this a onenta gorge theme trout copes salamanders and bull head in the water and red leg frogs on the land
 
I think this has inspired me....I can't do it now cause my tank demensions suck but in about 5 years when I upgrade I may have to get an extera wide tank just do this. :)
 
that would be pretty cool, i've thought about having frogs in them aswell... but that means you would have to have a tight lid because they would just climb up the side of the tank.
at the end of the month im going to a aquarium auction and hoping to get a 100 or 125 gallon tank. i'm planning on housing 4 yellow perch, lots of native caught minnows (for food and hopefully some that are big enough to avoid being eaten) a crayfish or two and maybe a rock bass. i've thought of styles and lay outs of the tank. and the idea of a riparium is very interesting to me. but im worried about having emergent plants in it because i would prefer to have a lid to avoid minnows jumping out of the tank. Im expecting that they will try because i am housing them with yellow perch. the plan so far is a lake bottum style with drift wood and rocks with some hornwort, hairgrass and hopefully some native species of plants.

Im suprised no one has any tanks of this style on the coldwater forums. or atleast any tanks they are willing to post pictures of, hopefully someone will soon
 
I'm waiting on my permit to take 3 perch for my tank hopefully soon. I plan on having them for 10+ years so hopefully in a few years i can get a nice 400-500 wide and do the paludarium but probably will only put plants on land as most natives other than minnows will eat frogs and such. :)
 
good idea ha, I'm not sure a perch would take a frog though, unless they turn out to be 12" monsters (which are very common in canada). my 4 yellow perch are only 4" each, they are pretty quiet most times because i think they are still a bit scared from being in the tank. they are in a 55" but im upgrading so they have more room to swim i think that will help.
you would certainly need a 400 at least to do a paludarium. i'd try to plant it like a steep bank or maybe even just a beach getting shallower.
im hoping my perch will be good in a community tank with minnows. they all love to eat them but one in particular goes insane for minnows, he ate 12 in two hours once.... thats a 4" perch take in mind, thats crazy. hopefully i can find a couple creek chubs etc.
 
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