My old FW setup

[krackel]

This is a 1/2 terrarium 1/2 aquarium I did about a year ago, I have since taken it down, but I figured I would share it with you guys anyways...

The tank was 55 gallons, it had 4 4' vhos, the only filtration was power heads and waterfalls, and suprisingly waterfalls do a great job filtering and a lot of great algae can form on the waterfalls... the tank had all kinds of stuff living in it, the water had 2 big plecos ( other misc LFS fish you wouldnt care about) it had a siren (for those of you who dont know what a siren is, its like an axolotl, mix between a fish and newt, only two front legs and frilly gills) it lived in the water and would climb up on shore to munch on mealworms, there was also a tiger salamander, some fiddler crabs, firebelly toads, and some firebelly newts.
I never knew any of this was possible, to house so many different sepcies together, and have everyone live in harmony, but I did, and it worked great. These animals will really burrow and build tunnels and caves when given the right amount of substrate and plants.




thats a big tomato plant growing on the right side of the tank, I have no clue how it got in there, I just decided to let it grow and see what happens, it killed some of the plant under it, oh well...

[Stang69]

That looks frickin cool withthe crabs and the fire belly toads in there.



Jeff

[krackel]

thanx, heres a couple more shots


this was my tiger salamander, he was awesome, but he had a tendancy to tear things up, and make a mess.


This was a shallow area I used a special rock to make, the red line shows the depth of the pool, about 3-4" deep (depending on top-off rates, some times I would let a lot of evaporation to occur to stimulate plant growth) this area was where the frogs gathered, it went back at least 9-10". At one point I even got some tiny floating pond plants for that area.

[jagt48]

Wow, thats really cool. I have an extra 20 I was thinking of doing something like that to. What kinds of plants did you have?

[Marco]

Very cool set up, why did you take it down? I only have saltwater but have been doing some heavy reading on Loaches and am seriously considering setting up a river tank.

[krackel]

I took it down because I had to move, but I plan to do another one, in an acrylic tank. Its easy to set up, and once it has enough growth, its fairly self sustaining.

[VWD]

I like that , Nice what You did with it.


Vince