Brackish Pools.

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Hey, I've been thinking about this for a year now. Is it possible to create a mini mangrove swamp habitat for brackish water creatures? Here is what I'd need to purchase and work on to make one:
1. Get a small, plastic kiddie pool.
2. Buy some sand/mud/whatever is the soil of mangrove trees in actual forests.
3. Fill the pool with an inch or so of sand, then fill it with brackish water.
4. Buy a HUEG plastic tree thing or a mangrove tree with broad roots
5. Buy a filter that won't be able to be seen, as well as the bacteria and all that stuff needed for a normal tank.
6. After the tank is finished cycling and whatnot, get the fish. Preferably mudskippers and bumblebee gobies, and if the pool is big enough get monos and scats and puffers, and all those other brackish water fish you rich people have.
7. Get a small room or greenhouse to keep the habitat in so the animals won't escape.
8. ????
9. Profit!1!!!1
If you guys don't get what I'm talking about I'll upload a beautiful picture of the habitat drawn in MS paint. But seriously, could this work?
 
It could be neat... but why dont you take it one project at a time and get a great home going for your future puff?

thats a pretty good drawing in paint btw...
 
It could be neat... but why dont you take it one project at a time and get a great home going for your future puff?

thats a pretty good drawing in paint btw...
Well, I've always wanted a fish pool in my room since 2006, so if Project Puffer turns out to be a failure and the tank sucks, then I'll scrap it and try this one. I might continue Project Mudskipper and merge it with this idea since it is confirmed that they are legal in California. And with the cycle going very fast in the puffah's tank, I'm betting I can get the puffer by Sunday, which is the last day of the sale. Eventually I might move the puffer, my baby molly, and the fiddlers into a habitat like this and buy a mudskipper if things are looking good.

thats a pretty good drawing in paint btw...
Took 64 hours in MS paint.
 
i would ditch the kiddy pool and get a 150 gallon plastic horse trough or something smaller, it would be taller and much more appealing. and since mangroves would need a lot of sand for the roots taller is better

mangroves around here grow in sand covered in a layer of silt that smells like garbage, but in some full SW places its just bare sand. not sure how that would contribute to its health

i hope you got a lot of money for this, probably 100 lbs of sand, 100$ - 300$ for an adequate filter, horse troughs are expensive, and a strong overhead light

btw, how did you get the fish pictures in the drawing to look so clean around the edges?
 
how did you get the fish pictures in the drawing to look so clean around the edges?
FYAHWORKS MX.
Also I might not even do this providing the tank is fine and such, it was just an idea. But it would be cool for someone else to try it. Even if I did, I'd have to save moneys by getting a fake mangrove.
 
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