Odd. I wrote out a long description with the post but it isn’t showing up.
Anyways.
I am in the process of designing a vampire crab paladarium. I had a 45x45x45cm (18″ cube) aquarium and a large tree stump that will be the centerpiece of the hardscape.
I want it to look like a river bank where the tree stump has fallen over (still partially buried under the soil) and extends out over the water.
I’ve done a few planted aquariums and a riparium but this will be my first build that has more land than water so I am not 100% how to handle the water circulation.
I plan to basically make the bottom water but fill 3/4 of it with small lava rocks in bags and then put up a sort of barrier using larger rocks to seperate the dry part from the wet.
I’ll place some landscaping cloth on top of the lava rock and then cap that with a mix of aquasoil and coconut fiber. I plan to use the coconut fiber to help keep the water from draining too fast through the aquasoil.
I will add a DIY filter box in the back middle of the tank and add a pump with black filter sponge around it to keep debris from getting inside.
Does anyone see any issues witht his design and what can I do to make it better?
curvingf1re
That angle is probably gonna be too steep to have the digging soil they’ll want. As for the makeup of the soil, I’m not familiar enough with what they prefer, but aquasoil is probably not gonna hold the shape of a burrow, you’ll probably want some sort of loose clay, sand, and coco fiber heavy terrarium mix.
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Odd. I wrote out a long description with the post but it isn’t showing up.
Anyways.
I am in the process of designing a vampire crab paladarium. I had a 45x45x45cm (18″ cube) aquarium and a large tree stump that will be the centerpiece of the hardscape.
I want it to look like a river bank where the tree stump has fallen over (still partially buried under the soil) and extends out over the water.
I’ve done a few planted aquariums and a riparium but this will be my first build that has more land than water so I am not 100% how to handle the water circulation.
I plan to basically make the bottom water but fill 3/4 of it with small lava rocks in bags and then put up a sort of barrier using larger rocks to seperate the dry part from the wet.
I’ll place some landscaping cloth on top of the lava rock and then cap that with a mix of aquasoil and coconut fiber. I plan to use the coconut fiber to help keep the water from draining too fast through the aquasoil.
I will add a DIY filter box in the back middle of the tank and add a pump with black filter sponge around it to keep debris from getting inside.
Does anyone see any issues witht his design and what can I do to make it better?
That angle is probably gonna be too steep to have the digging soil they’ll want. As for the makeup of the soil, I’m not familiar enough with what they prefer, but aquasoil is probably not gonna hold the shape of a burrow, you’ll probably want some sort of loose clay, sand, and coco fiber heavy terrarium mix.