Last summer, I was given a young stinkpot/common musk, and in the fall I was given a 65 tall full setup (yes, for free) from one of the professors at my school. I've come up with an idea to design a paludarium setup around the stinkpot and include some small native fish, some live plants, and mybe even eventually some treefrogs for the upper portion (but they will be the last thing added, if at all). It will probably be sometime in the spring/summer when I have the time/money to complete the project, but it is currently in the planning stages.
I downloaded Google Sketchup a few days ago and have been figuring it out and coming up with designs for some projects I've had in my head for a while.
Here's the basic design for the plumbing and also a small shelf/container for some terrestrial plants (which will probably be constructed from some scraps of glass from an old broken 29 I have laying around). The tube on the right will be the filtration intake. The two on the left will be the output. One is a spraybar across the back of the tank, and the other will be the start of a small stream/waterfall. They are connected outside the tank, and will have valves to adjust the flow between them. All the in-tank plumbing will be hidden in/under a stump/root structure constructed mainly from styrofoam (as you can see in the next pictures).
Here's a basic idea of what I want the hardscape to look like, although the real thing will probably have more branching and roots. For the terrestrial plant area, I'm thinking about a carnivorous plant bog for some venus flytraps and small American pitchers.
Let me know if you have any suggestions or questions about it.
I downloaded Google Sketchup a few days ago and have been figuring it out and coming up with designs for some projects I've had in my head for a while.
Here's the basic design for the plumbing and also a small shelf/container for some terrestrial plants (which will probably be constructed from some scraps of glass from an old broken 29 I have laying around). The tube on the right will be the filtration intake. The two on the left will be the output. One is a spraybar across the back of the tank, and the other will be the start of a small stream/waterfall. They are connected outside the tank, and will have valves to adjust the flow between them. All the in-tank plumbing will be hidden in/under a stump/root structure constructed mainly from styrofoam (as you can see in the next pictures).
Here's a basic idea of what I want the hardscape to look like, although the real thing will probably have more branching and roots. For the terrestrial plant area, I'm thinking about a carnivorous plant bog for some venus flytraps and small American pitchers.
Let me know if you have any suggestions or questions about it.