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hi guys, this is my tank This is a riparium, for those of you who havent seen a tank like this before the tank is half filled and planted with submerged and emmerged plants creating an image of a rivers edge. The emmerged plants are house plants in my set up that can survive with their...

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hi guys, this is my tank This is a riparium, for those of you who havent seen a tank like this before the tank is half filled and planted with submerged and emmerged plants creating an image of a rivers edge. The emmerged plants are house plants in my set up that can survive with their...

but surely i would have to source them from a supplier who grows them emmersed? I know the conversion from submerged to emmerged requires a lot of moisture

good idea but id need to cover the tank for humidity and am not going for emmersed plants as ive hung the light, i have another tank with a musk turtle in which im thinking about doing a humid riparium with emmersed plants like crypts and some of the plants you mentioned above!

update, light hung, back painted

heres some updates have plants in!!

have a new tank! its the same litre as the previous set up but its a long. Still waiting on some riparium supplies then ill plant up.

yeah thats a good idea, your tanks great. Like the fact all your heater, filter e.t.c is external. heres my tank at the moment, its half way between being converted back to something like this. After buying a house in stevenage last year with my girlfriend the tank just went down hill and...

lol, i know, seems the only way to find good advise is on forums! The best plant website I found has a minimum order on it so annoying when only want a couple of plants! What tank have you got? thanks to everyone else for responses

lol, i know, seems the only way to find good advise is on forums! The best plant website I found has a minimum order on it so annoying when only want a couple of plants! What tank have you got? thanks to everyone else for responses

looks good, im in stevenage too! Whats your local shop, koi company?

i have an external fluval filter and am fed up of paying so much money for filter media, amy one know a cheap source or an alternative?!

from this to this

Acorus Gramineus Ogen ( Golden Japanese Rush ) Cyperus Aternofolius ( Umbrella Palm ) Chamaedorea elegans (palour palm) Pilea cadierei (Silver tree) Pilea lysimachia nummularia (creeping jenny) diffenbachia spathilium (peace lilly) Houttuynia cordata (chameleon plant) Houttuynia Cordata Plena...

ok cool, ive got a couple of plants already, whats the first plant you have in that picture looks really good?! want to send me a cutting?! lol

yeah i know that but you then have to consider covering at least some of the the tank, getting a mister and actually converting the submerged to emmersed! i mainly focused on using house plants like spathilium and pond/marginal plants like "creeping jenny"

sorted out the tank ready to recieve the planters again, have had to order a couple of bits that i had lost/damaged. then need to search for some acceptable riparium plants.

havent posted for so long! ive brought a house moved and and this is my tank now!! obviously not a riparium! but i am setting it up back to its fomer glory! more updates soon

havent posted for so long! ive brought a house moved and and this is my tank now!! obviously not a riparium! but i am setting it up back to its fomer glory! more updates soon

Good tank! The swords could be having a problem because they are growing along the surface, are they close to the light source?

thanks guys! as these are all emmergant plants any way, or house plants they dont need to keep moist. plants like the spathiluim(peace lilly) in their natural habitat they live on river banks or in really moist soil so their roots a near enough submerged all the time. Other ripariums need to be...

thanks! heres some newer pic updates

looking great!

im moving all my bettas to another tank along with the kitty tetras that are left. So the two species of fish left in the riparium will be a brisstle nose plec and three panda cories. I really want to make a tetra riparium and not sure which way to go? Either to have jus one species of 12 fish...

Thanks so much guys!

thanks! Just gettin the water paremeters back up to standard now!

right so moved house now and eventually found some time to sort out my tank looking good, cut the creeping jenny right back as it melted a little but its started to grow back already! also trimmed the pilea as they where getting taller than the spathilium! sorry for some refelctions in...

hey guys thinking about trying to train the creeping jenny up a piece of larger driftwood, id rescape the rest, any thoughts?

any ideas?

thanks! the lily grows really fast but is easily controlled. The pads start small but grow really large. How would you improve the under water section? Im fairly new to aquascaping and would love some pointers!

he's making bubble nests all the time and i think one female is pregnent but not sure if its the righ conditions for fry?

pic updates

yeh they love the riparium set up! They like "sitting" on the lotus pads!

just a few new pics of growth spathilium bloom found a bit of pilea floating in the creeping jenny and it has started growing floating!

I came back from a weeks vacation the day before yesterday and waterchanged and trimmed right back, was like a jungle even after a week!

hydro, I have a really thin layer of "oil" on the top of my water when i disturb the water it breaks up, then reforms a while later, any ideas?

th parlour palm? Yeah its doing great not the fastest of growers but all the same growing and rooting!

got my moonlights!

Hey can anyone tell me the best place to get moonlight LED's in a strip, with fixtures included? thanks

thanks hydro! Only got them because of a list you suggested to me! As thats all my planters used up now I think I will let the plants I have grow in and see what happens! Thanks again! Lol I think you should try! I'm so happy with my riparium!!!

oh cool, yes mine is doing the same shooting straight up for the light source, think I might trim it down to try and get it more bushy

two new plants, golden japanese rush and umbrella palm new tank shots thanks for replying!

oh and your website is amazing!

Ok cool so im getting there! I have a riparium and have loads of floating plants! thanks for the help

mine has started to build a bubble nest (sorry to ask on this thread) but no fry yet! he has four females with him, will they breed succsefully?

thanks for your help guys

ill test my tap water, if this is the cause is 40ppm too high or ok?

hey guys, I have tested my water in my riparium and the nitrates are 40, which is higher than i would like, I have done water changes and dosed nitrate minus by aqua tetra. I have root medic tabs in the planters which could be leeking nitrates into water (not sure though!) I have to top up water...

any updates?!!?

no sorry hydro ment bloom of creeping jenny

thanks again hydro, Its growing really well I just want it to bloom! Its a shame I cant send you one!!

Update on new plant its a Houttuynia Cordata Plena ( Orange Plant ) or (rainbow chameleon plant) simmilar to the other chamelon plant I have already in the tank. tank shots as it is now

thanks hydro, and tbro anubius is a good idea but i dont want to over crowd the submerged section at the moment.

pic update, added driftwood and 3 more female bettas

to add to previous post, the Kitty tetra - Hyphessobrycon heliacus, if any one does want to knoe more go here http://www.aqua-fish.net/show.php?h=kittytetra

that is what they was labeled up as in my local maidenhead aquatics

ok thanks

I want my tiger lotus to gro up rather than growing newer leaves and become bushier, do I need to trim the smaller leaves that are growing to make the larger ones grow up? Thanks for input guys

Hi guys have made a journal for this tank but thought I would post a pic here as well as i'm fairly happy with the scape so far let me know any critiques all are wlcome thankyou!

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Forgot to add I have two new inhabitants, new panda cories. So the fuana list now is, 3 panda cories (shoaling nicely!) 4 kitty tetras male/female betta (plan on getting one or two more females) and a brittles...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I teste my water for the first time today ammonia 0.25 ppm PH 7.6 nitrite 0.25 nitrate 40 as the nitrate is high I have added some nitrate down hope this helps, new pilea and floating plants

im hoping mine does too! To be honest no! this one came already flower but has produced another two already!

laputa is an amazing film! miyazaki's finest! your tank really embodies that film!

going to get another pilea tomorrow i think have one nano trellis left, the palm looks like its doing well cant tell if its rooting, thanks!

filter is back up and running!!! creeping jenny is growing everyday hope it flowers!

ouch, makes my filter not seem so bad!

lol, the filter, the clip which connects the piping to the external filter has a tiny little bit snapped off and water is leaked everywhere!

i'm so pissed off! was cleaning out my filter (fluval 105 external) and was clipping the hosing unit back into the filter and heard this slight snapping noise, taking no notice I started to pump the water back into the fiter. Looking down I saw water leaking everywhere!!!

its growing really well, the other plant, which i am nearly trimming daily is the creeping jenny! im onnly trimming as i want a thick spread on the raft.

just thought id shar this pic of my red tiger lotus really love the colourations on this plant

thanks for your advise darrel, maybe i wont go out of my way to breed them as I have no spare tank to house the fry/other fish. Luckly the male in the tank now is a vary placid and doesnt even look at any of my other fish!

thanks TBRO, I have one female in there at the moment thinking about getting two more but unsure of specific betta breeding!

new plants, pilea and aluminium plant I think!

thought it was a pilea! I have root medic tabs in the planters, have easy carbo(liquid c02) think im going to start dosing that to the water and Nutrafin Plant Gro . Not at home at the moment so cant give the exact specs of the Nutrafin Plant Gro . Here is a link to it if you can see if its...

Ok thanks a lot!

how is the cynobacteria doing? I had that in my 70 litre when it was full with water, gave it a 3 day black out and it was fine!

following on from my first post Im going to show you the stages I went through, firstly a pic how my tank did look, After joining the Planted tank forum, I read and saw a alot of really great threads about ripariums, this made me want to convert my tank! So I got my planters, trellisis...

if you can find a garden centre that does pilea! all the ones close to me doesn't! if any one lives near london let me know if you see any thanks!

yeah from garden centre its doing great! I cant find pilea any where! its getting really annoying now!

I have been on the planted tank forum from the beggining of the year and decided it was time to join a more english based forum and as hydrophyte suggested this one!! I have a 70 litre tank which has just been converted into a riparium, also a 7 gal shrimp tank but ill make another journal for...