Hi, I'm new. Did lots of research by the AI but couldn't get the answer. Will this work? Would the land saturated and water level throughout the tank into the terestial if there's no drain water flowout from the land area.
by EXZgame
Hi, I'm new. Did lots of research by the AI but couldn't get the answer. Will this work? Would the land saturated and water level throughout the tank into the terestial if there's no drain water flowout from the land area.
by EXZgame
13 Comments
yes.
Yes. Won’t the water just drain at least down to the level of the retaining wall?
Yes
Yes
Your land will saturated. On god. Fr fr.
Just build one wall to hold water. Shallow area can be simulated with plants in pots.
Do you need Chat GPT to tell you that gravity affects water? I’m scared for our future
A few things about this, one is that the water level will want to be equal everywhere. If it can find a way somewhere where the water level is lower, it’ll go there. This also means that itll wick over absolutely anything that is touching both water and land. This can be as simple as a root, a bit of sand, a piece of wood etc. It often doesn’t work, also due to the fact that you might not build it well and then the glass barrier will leak. Most people who do this end up with big big issues. I’d do a false bottom, however I understand that’s tricky with a deep water section.
make the retaining wall higher than the water level. then use rocks or a platform on the water side to create a graduated step. this will give you a shallow “buffer zone” and will keep the land side dry
As aquarium builders have painfully found out water can wick out of anything given the slightest option and enough time. Even if you manage to fully separate the water section with a wall, the other section is going to need a drainable drainage layer or else your soil will be saturated.
Even with a false bottom and plenty of vertical separation my paludarium became a bog.
like in just an hour if you build it right
Try adding a good layer of corse rock where the water meets the sand, so the same sits high enough on top, that the rock doesn’t carry the water up to the soil.
Careful, the new models of chat gpt have like a 40-50% chance of straight up just making things up. It’s ok for light research, but it’s told me blatantly wrong and dangerous info before, don’t trust it, do your research elsewhere.