Building Large Planted Aquarium/Terrarium/Paludarium 10x11 feet
- Thread starter Abin Philip
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Abin,
I am not from India though many of my friends and two of my most important teachers are.
In America they are expensive but there is nothing more exotic and beautiful than a school of discus fish. They are hard to keep and need perfect water. Once your tank is 6 months old and the water is perfect you could begin adding Discus. There are many colors. Schools of Angel Fish are also very nice. A tank that big would have room for turtles, too.
Again, you are buying so many that someone from a local fish store would come to your house to help you choose.
Do you want to fill the tank immediately or will you take many years to grow the plants and fish? Over many years you may have many different schools of fish.
When your tank is new you could add 500 guppies and they would make many babies. Later you could add something that would eat guppies and grow a new school of larger fish.
Guppies now. Angels in 6 months. Discus in 1 year. And every other fish you see that you find beautiful. Your tank is so large you can have everything.
Nate
I am not from India though many of my friends and two of my most important teachers are.
In America they are expensive but there is nothing more exotic and beautiful than a school of discus fish. They are hard to keep and need perfect water. Once your tank is 6 months old and the water is perfect you could begin adding Discus. There are many colors. Schools of Angel Fish are also very nice. A tank that big would have room for turtles, too.
Again, you are buying so many that someone from a local fish store would come to your house to help you choose.
Do you want to fill the tank immediately or will you take many years to grow the plants and fish? Over many years you may have many different schools of fish.
When your tank is new you could add 500 guppies and they would make many babies. Later you could add something that would eat guppies and grow a new school of larger fish.
Guppies now. Angels in 6 months. Discus in 1 year. And every other fish you see that you find beautiful. Your tank is so large you can have everything.
Nate
WATERFALL PLAN
Hi friends, its been quiet sometime...the work is progressing slow as we plan to complete it alongwith th home being constructed...the rock work is over, next is th painting and front glass fixing. The front glass will be 19mm thick toughen glass....
Meanwhile let me show you the plan of waterfall....there will be water pumbed up and collected at middle area as shown that will flow back as waterfalls....
Hi friends, its been quiet sometime...the work is progressing slow as we plan to complete it alongwith th home being constructed...the rock work is over, next is th painting and front glass fixing. The front glass will be 19mm thick toughen glass....
Meanwhile let me show you the plan of waterfall....there will be water pumbed up and collected at middle area as shown that will flow back as waterfalls....
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Plz do give feedback, advice/suggestions on problems i may face....how does the set up look.....cz it was not actually how i planned it to be.....i wanted to build it with natural rocks...th contractor came up with this telling me of the problems using natural rocks..
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i think it looks great. I think it looks very natural and the way you have the waterfalls planned, it will look spectacular. Once you get it planted with submerged plants below the water ( I see all the pockets for them) and plants and moss above as well as maybe adding a large piece of driftwood the goes both above and below the waterline, the rockwork will be in the background at that point.
It's like the canvas of a painting - it's very important, it's the base of the art, it gives a lot of texture but it will be covered by the "true stars" of the "painting" when it's finished.
Eager to see how this continues to progress
It's like the canvas of a painting - it's very important, it's the base of the art, it gives a lot of texture but it will be covered by the "true stars" of the "painting" when it's finished.
Eager to see how this continues to progress
Do you mean you plan to paint the background? Personally, I'm not sure I would... I like the color of the "rock" in the pictures and painting just seems like alot of work to maybe make it look better. Most of it will be covered up by moss/plants as it fills in anyway. My best advice to you is once you have it planted to keep things pruned (for health/plant growth) but otherwise kinda let things be. It's alot of fun to watch how some plants will thrive in 1/2 the tank and wilt elsewhere.
Also, I saw something neat awhile back that might be a cool idea for your tank: glowing mushrooms! I was going to buy them but then I realized I had nowhere to put them.
Also, I saw something neat awhile back that might be a cool idea for your tank: glowing mushrooms! I was going to buy them but then I realized I had nowhere to put them.
THE WATERING SYSTEM
Hi all,
there was a major decision to be made regarding the watering of the plants above water level. Thought of manual watering at first then realized wont be feasible in the long run. Then thought of having a sprinkler system at top, but there was still problem of water not reaching evenly.
Then came up with this idea(shown in pics below).
A pipe runs through the whole sides where ever there are burrows to plant the plants. The pipe is pierced at each burrow and an extension pipe put. the flow of water into each burrow can be set easily just by turning the blue end you see..this idea seemed more efficient to me in the long run
the pipes u see in the first pics were hidden using the cement work merging into rock, leaving only the tip pipe out as u see in the 5th and 6th pic. that too would be eventually hidden as plants come.Pls give ur comments. Next lies painting of the rocks and front glass fixing. then testing for leaks and finally planting
Hi all,
there was a major decision to be made regarding the watering of the plants above water level. Thought of manual watering at first then realized wont be feasible in the long run. Then thought of having a sprinkler system at top, but there was still problem of water not reaching evenly.
Then came up with this idea(shown in pics below).
A pipe runs through the whole sides where ever there are burrows to plant the plants. The pipe is pierced at each burrow and an extension pipe put. the flow of water into each burrow can be set easily just by turning the blue end you see..this idea seemed more efficient to me in the long run
the pipes u see in the first pics were hidden using the cement work merging into rock, leaving only the tip pipe out as u see in the 5th and 6th pic. that too would be eventually hidden as plants come.Pls give ur comments. Next lies painting of the rocks and front glass fixing. then testing for leaks and finally planting
I personally think it would have been best to run tubing into the background ( I decided maybe I wanted that after all in my tank once I had finished my background too...) for aesthetics but I think the way you have it setup allows you to easily modify/change it if necessary. Good call though, relying on manual watering for such a large setup would not be a good idea.
Ya it would be hidden in th background only ..only thing seen outside is th little pipe u see in th last pic...rest of the pipes is covered by th cement ...merging into the existing rock look..ya it wz double work..bt a solution to th main problem in the long run ie watering...
