How to Build a Paludarium

[Seriak]

Lit by a mitras no less

[sphelps]

Originally Posted by Ryanerickson

After looking up that word, [Paludariumcan] had to paste it can't spell it lol or not trying. Amazing tanks from what you have started with this should be a show piece, maybe look into making statues lol looks amazing I'm very impressed.

Thanks, so far it has turned out pretty good, hopefully I can keep it up.

Originally Posted by Seriak

Lit by a mitras no less

Lit by 3, I removed 2 for access but eventually will go back up. The gimmick features of clouds and storms seem more appropriate for my "swamp" than my previous reef.

[MarkoD]

looks awesome. i did one of these 3d backgrounds before. using a sodering iron will give you a rock like appearance

[sphelps]

Originally Posted by MarkoD

looks awesome. i did one of these 3d backgrounds before. using a sodering iron will give you a rock like appearance

Thanks, might try that on the sides.

[sphelps]

Power outage, not much else to do...



That's the left side.

[sphelps]

Step 3 relates to the plumbing, the rough in for the filtration has started. On one side is the intake which includes a surface skimmer, the two valves will control how much flow is skimmed from the surface vs a submerged strainer (still to be added). The skimmer box will also hold items like a float valve for level control. The output from the filter is roughed in on the other side of the tank.

[gregzz4]

Where's the pump go ?

[sphelps]

Backtracking to step 2 to finish the background, some addition foam is added to fill in the gaps and blend things together. Some vine work is also added at this time but will be completed in a later step when other rock and wood features are added. This virtually completes step 2, here's a full swamp pic to show the current result.