New native paludarium... I think you'll love it!

froggsong · #1 09-30-2009, 06:28 AM

Heh... way to reuse a title, huh?

So... I redid the newt tank!!!! She's native too, so I used all native plants in her tank. The only thing not native is the fish, and they are supposed to be food anyway.

She had an aquarium setup before, but I have been wanting to do a paludarium for her again for a long time. I want to encourage her to become more terrestrial so that I can build her a permanent paludarium.

It's simple, but I like it!

Here's some pics:

And here is a video!
Newt Paludarium Video

auggie · #2 09-30-2009, 08:40 AM

Great work froggy, i just saw your video and your tank looks fantastic. Also the newt looks very happy.

also how were you able to get the plants to go on the side of the wall like that?

P.S. nice creativity with the title

beckdg · #3 09-30-2009, 10:52 AM

saphira looks quite content where she's at. i hope she moves on up for you soon. honestly, i'm interested in what you do next.

froggsong · #4 09-30-2009, 12:32 PM

Thanks guys.

I've got the vive bug at a very inopportune time... I'm going to have to take everything down in just a couple of weeks to move! Hopefully I'll be able to move them without removing all the plants and whatnot.

Luke, I'm not sure which plants you are talking about... The plants that are in there came out of the frog tank I just did, they were all stuck together in such a way that I just pulled out a whole row of them, then I set them on top of a piece of screen on top of the land I built with gravel. Then I went outside and grabbed some more moss and put it around the plants to keep the soil from eroding. I even put a little down into the water to see if this particular moss will survive under water. The ferns are just stuck under the moss, that's how I found them when I collected them, so that's how I "planted" them. All of the other plants are water plants (water lettuce, and duck weed... I hope the water is deep enough for the water lettuce's roots).

auggie · #5 09-30-2009, 06:58 PM

Thanks... actually looking at the pictures some more i realized they are mainly on the ground. when i saw the video i thought they were growing on the walls of the tank never mind.

froggsong · #6 09-30-2009, 09:39 PM

No problem

I was having trouble getting good shots of the tank because it's in the corner of the kitchen counter. I can see where it would look a little odd, lol.

froggsong · #7 10-01-2009, 05:00 AM

The ferns have perked back up nicely! They look so much better now. I am really happy about that. I hope they make it.

One thing about this tank that's really cool, my husband LOVES it. He even told me "I love it". He doesn't normally care about my obsession, lol, so that just tells me what an awesome job I did!

Epiphile · #8 10-01-2009, 08:16 AM

It's always nice to have the support of loved ones- my lady just recently started commenting nicely on my latest ones. What she doesn't know, though, is that I've taken this as a go-ahead to make more, ha ha.

And it looks great.

froggsong · #9 10-01-2009, 01:35 PM

He told me last night he was actually excited about what I might do next, so that's a plus! I think I have determined that it's not about how elaborate your "stone" work, or your GS carving/covering/etc, it's all about the plants you use. If you don't have enough plants to make it look natural, it's not going to look natural.

Epiphile · #10 10-01-2009, 01:50 PM

That's a good point- a lot of times the sense of scale is really important, too, I think. It's really tough to find plants that are appropriate for use in, say, a 10g tank at your run of the mill garden center. I think that that's a big reason I've ended up primarily with orchids- there aren't too many vendors north of the border that deal in smaller-sized plants, and it's an arm and a leg to get them shipped up.