My 25G Paludarium comments love / hate?

  • We are currently upgrading MFK. thanks! -neo
aclockworkorange;5085762; said:
Ottos die a lot. One theory is that they're collected with cyanide (they're almost always wild caught!).
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Really? i never knew that... so thanks for the heads up...

Liquidplants;5088972; said:
looking great! I'm battling some hair algae also and would love some suggestions also.
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Thanks, and yeah hair algae is a P.I.T.A

JamesF;5090065; said:
Ottos won't touch hair algae. Try amano shrimp. They should eat it and stay small enough for that tank.
Looks good!
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Actually, i've been so stupid all this time i forgot about this type of Chinese Red Nose Shrimp as its called over here... extremely hard workers and will take care of any algae... i must go and see if i can get some this weekend possibly?

Anyway, will be updating some pics in the next few days hopefully... so keep an eye out...
 
As promised... here are some updates of the tank, the plants and its residents...

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A shot from above
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Directly above, as you can see, the plants have really filled the area up
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Feeding time (Sorry bout the dirty glass)
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One of the shrimp
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And another one
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Happily grazing away...
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^ Thanks :D, I definitely recommend it, its actually quite a lot of fun planning out the whole process and actually getting down and doing it...

Plus theres a few of them on here, so you can always steal some ideas on how to set yours up if you decide to set one up...
 
Hahah I have cleared out my 1 of my small fishtanks. Im going to the LFS tomorrow to ask for some advice :D Can't wait!! :D
 
AOmonsta;5096161; said:
Very nice. I'm sure you'll be wanting to build a monster paludarium soon.

Oh and is the watefall the return from the canister? If so thats a good idea.
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You know it :naughty:

But yeah, this tank is basically a test run for me to see how the plants would do, as well as to test out any problems i may encounter setting up a paludarium... hoping that in a year or so to maybe upgrade to a 4' wide tank and possibly keep a chameleon or some other reptile on the land area...

Oh and as for the waterfall, yes, it was built to serve as a way to hide the return from the canister filter...

OddBallKeeper;5096527; said:
Hahah I have cleared out my 1 of my small fishtanks. Im going to the LFS tomorrow to ask for some advice :D Can't wait!! :D
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Good to hear... i think you'll enjoy the project, lots of fun learning and trouble shooting how to setup such a system... albeit at times it can be frustrating...
 
Good to hear... i think you'll enjoy the project, lots of fun learning and trouble shooting how to setup such a system... albeit at times it can be frustrating...[/QUOTE]

Can't wait and im expecting some frustration from this project.This is my first project >_< :D
 
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