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Very first riparium attemp

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Had some fun in my LFS again. This time they liked me to make a Riparium of sorts. Not easy to figure out how to get the water flow to all plants to keep them moist and I had only one morning to do the whole thing.
It's not totally finished yet, it need some nice plants (Orchid, Bromelia and/or Fern) on the big wood piece.
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It also could use some flouters and Anubius or small crypts submersed.
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And what is your solution to keep plants wet?
Just pumped the water up the "hill" which I made of foam. Hollowed out a bit on the top to be able to let the water flow from all sides, than I cut a zig zag pattern out for the water to go down in that fashion and to slow it down, on this I could place stones and plants.
 
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Here you can see the foam and how I carved it in a zig zag shape. Pump and hoses are also visual.

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Planting is easy, just poke a hole in the foam and plant you plant in that hole, I made some holes bigger o be able to hold some substrate
 
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