Looks great. As far as using Great Stuff, I have read about but haven't found yet, a version made by the same company designed for ponds and underwater use.
My New Asian Mangrove Brackish tank!
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Thanks. Yeah, it took a while to complete. I was looking at it empty for months in my office, and then I had to have it full and running (without anything in it) for a while to cure the concrete that was even worse, lol. Now that it's setup and theres some inhabitants I cant help but to keep going over to it, lol.
Here's some pics of the new Butis butis in the tank.
EDIT: If you want to see the pics from post 10 in a larger size just go to http://www.imagebam.com/gallery/fe546eae619ee79c6453f530b4cad460/, for some reason MFK is breaking the links for the hotlinked images and only showing the thumbnails.
Here's some pics of the new Butis butis in the tank.
EDIT: If you want to see the pics from post 10 in a larger size just go to http://www.imagebam.com/gallery/fe546eae619ee79c6453f530b4cad460/, for some reason MFK is breaking the links for the hotlinked images and only showing the thumbnails.
what is coco fiber?Im guessing the hairs from a coconut shell or something?And that was just for the look right?I wonder if while the foam is fresh if you could just cover it with sand and that be good enough without the whole cement process?I know anything will stick to that foam so it may be possible..........just a thought.great idea though.
itsbadlands;2779545; said:
Coco Fiber is often used as a reptile substrate. It's sold in compressed bricks that you soak in warm water, which causes them to expand dramatically, providing alot of bedding from a tiny brick.
It's also sold in Garden Centers, sometimes loose sometimes compressed, as it's used in planting media as well. It can work as a substitute for Peat Moss I believe.
Yep, they have been holding up great too. Them and the Java Fern seem to be the most tolerant of brackish conditions. The Anacharis crapped out a little, the Valisenaria is almost all gone (I used Italian Val, I was supposed to use American) and the Crinum is holding up alright but they were in bad condition when I got them so switching them to brackish in that condition didn't help them to much.micstarz;2781135;2781135 said:
I just started dosing fertilizers, using Seachem Flourish and Flourish excel and normal doses. I will see how they react to that. I might wind up doing CO2 as well just to see how good I can get brackish plants to grow
. I choose plants from the Brackish Adaptable list at www.plantgeeks.net to stock my tank.
ABSOLUTELY SICK!!! Congrats. Ive always wanted to do something like this. It seems to me that the coco fibers would probably end up slowly falling out/off and just polluting the tank... Sand might be cool. Wed have to see what it would look like.
Thanks.FLESHY;2885197;2885197 said:
I am glad that I wound up redoing it and going for the cement instead of the coco fiber. If I woulda went with the siliconed coco fiber, I think it would have all started peeling off eventually.
My smaller paludarium has a few spots that peeled away, and thats not fully submersed. I think once it started to pull the water would work behind the silicon and keep spreading.
