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Got tired keeping up with the water changes and cleaning the filter and all that jazz. It really wasn't that much work but I wasn't getting rampant semi aquatic moss growth like I had when I first setup the paludarium. (The lack of background allowed light in from the window and thats all it takes sometimes.) I'm going to be upgrading the lighting sometime soon to include a high power LED fixture, or else the broms will loose all their color. I'd go HQI, but they are so hot and the room is a good 80F anyways.
So I basically just dumped in some soil I made ontop a layer of leca and added some tropical moss from a nursery in California. Nothing too fancy. Drainage was taken care of due to the plumbing the paludarium used to have.
Due to the weather this summer being just plain brutal, 100-108F for weeks, the only things that survived in my greenhouses were broms so the plant selection was a bit limited. (That and the weekend before I went to a brom society show and I just had to use a few of them.)
All the rocks are artificial resin/foam replicas that I mold/cast in my spare time. I can take only about 1-2 orders a week at this point since I'm devoting all of my free time to finishing up a series of DIY products chemically formulated for the vivarium/saltwater hobby. (Not just re-purposing something and putting a reptile sticker on it. I have standards.) So if you are interested in the rocks pm me and I'll send ya a link, but I'm not ready to become a sponsor just yet as I don't have the time to keep up with anything but the slowest of order demand. In time though.
Here are the pics. Its for a vine snake that should be visible in the full tank picture.
Started like this, but the cats pooped in it all the time so I changed it to below.
Then the water was becoming annoying to keep up with and bla bla bla so now it looks like this:
So I basically just dumped in some soil I made ontop a layer of leca and added some tropical moss from a nursery in California. Nothing too fancy. Drainage was taken care of due to the plumbing the paludarium used to have.
Due to the weather this summer being just plain brutal, 100-108F for weeks, the only things that survived in my greenhouses were broms so the plant selection was a bit limited. (That and the weekend before I went to a brom society show and I just had to use a few of them.)
All the rocks are artificial resin/foam replicas that I mold/cast in my spare time. I can take only about 1-2 orders a week at this point since I'm devoting all of my free time to finishing up a series of DIY products chemically formulated for the vivarium/saltwater hobby. (Not just re-purposing something and putting a reptile sticker on it. I have standards.) So if you are interested in the rocks pm me and I'll send ya a link, but I'm not ready to become a sponsor just yet as I don't have the time to keep up with anything but the slowest of order demand. In time though.
Here are the pics. Its for a vine snake that should be visible in the full tank picture.

Started like this, but the cats pooped in it all the time so I changed it to below.

Then the water was becoming annoying to keep up with and bla bla bla so now it looks like this:











