zozo
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Actualy i have no idea how the categorize this in our hobby terms.. Is it a Paludarium a riparium an aquarium?
It is something but i realy don't know. I leave it up to you if you have suggestion, i will add the winning term to the title.
Anyway the making off the tank itself you can find <here>
Dimension: approximately - 124cm x 32cm x 21cm
Hardscape material: Fosillized wood, not the typical one but sourced privately and dug up by a hobby fossil collecter somewhere in the dark outbacks of Germany.
Substrate: In the creek area submersed - Seachem flourite Dark
Base substrate for the emersed parts: Crushed Lava Rock to create the banking, in the baskets an Alfagrog type.
Capping substrate for the emersed parts: Not yet desided..
Filter: 300l/h Resun Hang on the back.
Lights: Her comes the sun.. 🙂 Thus natural light only.
Heating: Non
Plants: For now i can only say South/Central - American bog plants and a few terrestrials, will update the list later on the fly. Definitively a drystart.
Lifestock: Shrimps and snails.. Fish i yet not desided on, depends on how stable it runs in the future. And yet i do not know it's true water volume in the end.. Free swimming space will be around 10 to 20 litres estimate. Maybe small Corydoras sp. and or Otocinclus and or Ember Tetra. But for now i don't think i will hold fish in here.
Seen from above:
Detail on the filter tube feeding the hob. Did test run it on 300l/h without the drain holes and it ran like a charm. Drilled in the extra drain holes, it probably is going to function a small part as UGFilter embeded in lava rocks. The top of the tube sticking out of the substrate is also coated in the dust from the crushed lava. Later on likely covered in moss as well.
Left side, the steep cliff side.. After it is flooded there will be a small water lily planted in the corner where the 2 big rocks meet. I'm yet not sure but i think that will be the only aqautic plant totaly submersed. For the rest it will be some trailing marginal plants hanging over the rocks.
Finding that Seachem Flourite Dark in my country realy was a treat.. I've searched for days for other alternatives. Was rather getting frustrated, nothing out there, than by chance i found 1 shop in the entire country selling seachem flourite. Never seen it before, had to choose between black and dark.. Took my chances and ordered the Dark.. Was a lucky shot. I don't think black would have looked beter. What do you think?
No carpet plants in the submersed substate as you would expect to see in a creek in nature. Only mosses on the rocks.
Still far from done, have some more little and medium sized rocks left and still might add some other hardscape details in the creek. Any suggestions on improvement on details in the middle are more than welcom.
I have one little dilemma i need some advice and suggestions about.. 🙂 I can't realy deside what to use as capping substrate to fill up the sides and top off the lava rock.
Should i go Inert with a fine black lava bases gravel or should i go Organic peaty pond soil? Or should i mix in both?
What do you guys think? What should i cap it with?
SInce it's going to be very plant heavy and dry starting i'm leaning towards Organic soil.. 🙂
And still need ti fill in an extra bag of crushed lava around the baskets. I'm not realy expecting anaerobic pockets in the deep layer substrate. The soil will only fill up the spaces between the lava rocks at the glass as much as possible. Probaly with a lot of free space between it in the middle only holding water. I guess shrimp fry can and will get into that cave labirynth.
Another question i yet can't deside about.. Should i cover the back panel in black foil?
To be continued: 🙂
It is something but i realy don't know. I leave it up to you if you have suggestion, i will add the winning term to the title.
Anyway the making off the tank itself you can find <here>
Dimension: approximately - 124cm x 32cm x 21cm
Hardscape material: Fosillized wood, not the typical one but sourced privately and dug up by a hobby fossil collecter somewhere in the dark outbacks of Germany.
Substrate: In the creek area submersed - Seachem flourite Dark
Base substrate for the emersed parts: Crushed Lava Rock to create the banking, in the baskets an Alfagrog type.
Capping substrate for the emersed parts: Not yet desided..
Filter: 300l/h Resun Hang on the back.
Lights: Her comes the sun.. 🙂 Thus natural light only.
Heating: Non
Plants: For now i can only say South/Central - American bog plants and a few terrestrials, will update the list later on the fly. Definitively a drystart.
Lifestock: Shrimps and snails.. Fish i yet not desided on, depends on how stable it runs in the future. And yet i do not know it's true water volume in the end.. Free swimming space will be around 10 to 20 litres estimate. Maybe small Corydoras sp. and or Otocinclus and or Ember Tetra. But for now i don't think i will hold fish in here.
Seen from above:
Detail on the filter tube feeding the hob. Did test run it on 300l/h without the drain holes and it ran like a charm. Drilled in the extra drain holes, it probably is going to function a small part as UGFilter embeded in lava rocks. The top of the tube sticking out of the substrate is also coated in the dust from the crushed lava. Later on likely covered in moss as well.
Left side, the steep cliff side.. After it is flooded there will be a small water lily planted in the corner where the 2 big rocks meet. I'm yet not sure but i think that will be the only aqautic plant totaly submersed. For the rest it will be some trailing marginal plants hanging over the rocks.
Finding that Seachem Flourite Dark in my country realy was a treat.. I've searched for days for other alternatives. Was rather getting frustrated, nothing out there, than by chance i found 1 shop in the entire country selling seachem flourite. Never seen it before, had to choose between black and dark.. Took my chances and ordered the Dark.. Was a lucky shot. I don't think black would have looked beter. What do you think?
No carpet plants in the submersed substate as you would expect to see in a creek in nature. Only mosses on the rocks.
Still far from done, have some more little and medium sized rocks left and still might add some other hardscape details in the creek. Any suggestions on improvement on details in the middle are more than welcom.
I have one little dilemma i need some advice and suggestions about.. 🙂 I can't realy deside what to use as capping substrate to fill up the sides and top off the lava rock.
Should i go Inert with a fine black lava bases gravel or should i go Organic peaty pond soil? Or should i mix in both?
What do you guys think? What should i cap it with?
SInce it's going to be very plant heavy and dry starting i'm leaning towards Organic soil.. 🙂
And still need ti fill in an extra bag of crushed lava around the baskets. I'm not realy expecting anaerobic pockets in the deep layer substrate. The soil will only fill up the spaces between the lava rocks at the glass as much as possible. Probaly with a lot of free space between it in the middle only holding water. I guess shrimp fry can and will get into that cave labirynth.
Another question i yet can't deside about.. Should i cover the back panel in black foil?
To be continued: 🙂
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