zozo
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I would like to build me a Paludarium, depending on plants and it's stocking possibilities it either be open or closed. It's going to be an epoxy coated plywood bottom panel 90x40, x 100cm coated plywood back panel. 100cm glass side panels and a 30cm front panel for the water part. Actualy want to build it in such a way that i can easily close it with 2 glass panel doors from the front. That are mounted with stainles steel glas display box door hinges. That can be put and taken out.. It will get a wooden lid on top for the lighting eventual spraying installation..
Since succesfully testing and running the lately build in tank sump filter, the paludarium will be filtered with an equal in tank system at the back. It can't get any beter than having part of the emersed background planting growing in that filter. And use that water compartment also for the spray installlation. Than all will be in tank and absolutely no external equipment other than a cable exit from the backpanel going to the power sockets
It will be South American themed and i want to model a land part at the back as if it is an eroded overhang with marginal plants growing on it and a stream running over it that comes down from the backpanel and feeds the tank as a little waterfall comming down from the planted backpanel and over the overhanging land mass.. The question is as in Topic title, does anybody have experience with keeping small dwarf South American rain forest tree gecko's in a relatively wet paludarium setup. In that case it would definitively needed to close it with doors.
I know they are kept in terrarium setups with rather small water parts and i have zip experience with keeping animals like this. Are there people around here having experience with these lovely small critters. Or maybe know some threads at other places on the net discussing and showing setups like this. Can't imaging i'm the first with this idea. I've searched, bit can't realy find any paludarium setups with gecko's or dart frogs whit such a large water section. So i thought there might be a reason to advice against it. Thus ask, thoughts, experiences and hopefully advices from somebody familiar with the topic. To maybe get to know what i'm up to, before the build is started.
Thanks up front for reading this..
Since succesfully testing and running the lately build in tank sump filter, the paludarium will be filtered with an equal in tank system at the back. It can't get any beter than having part of the emersed background planting growing in that filter. And use that water compartment also for the spray installlation. Than all will be in tank and absolutely no external equipment other than a cable exit from the backpanel going to the power sockets
It will be South American themed and i want to model a land part at the back as if it is an eroded overhang with marginal plants growing on it and a stream running over it that comes down from the backpanel and feeds the tank as a little waterfall comming down from the planted backpanel and over the overhanging land mass.. The question is as in Topic title, does anybody have experience with keeping small dwarf South American rain forest tree gecko's in a relatively wet paludarium setup. In that case it would definitively needed to close it with doors.
I know they are kept in terrarium setups with rather small water parts and i have zip experience with keeping animals like this. Are there people around here having experience with these lovely small critters. Or maybe know some threads at other places on the net discussing and showing setups like this. Can't imaging i'm the first with this idea. I've searched, bit can't realy find any paludarium setups with gecko's or dart frogs whit such a large water section. So i thought there might be a reason to advice against it. Thus ask, thoughts, experiences and hopefully advices from somebody familiar with the topic. To maybe get to know what i'm up to, before the build is started.
Thanks up front for reading this..