New project 75g paludarium

[danotaylor]

Looks awesome Steve, nicely done mate. Great to see this project come together. What are your plans for fish in there? A school of hatchets or Australian Archer fish would look amazing!

[Steve]

Not fully decided just yet but thinking guppies and or neons and maybe couple CAE's. Thinking about maybe some shrimp as well but not sure on those yet either still kicking around that idea.

[Steve]

Basically finished it today. Other than moving over a group of about 25 bloody mary shrimp I just got for it, and add a shoal of cardinal tetras to it as well.

First here's a vid of it- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiJtNPrpJE8&t=4s

And pics

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

[danotaylor]

That looks so amazing mate! I was thinking shrimp would be good, and bloody Mary's are one of my faves. You're creativity is really shining with this project, just WOW!

[Steve]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt-gF7qabMA

Fog is rolling in on the paludarium tonight. Can even hear the spring peppers singing away (sound on) 

[Regalblue]

Soooo cool looking!

[Brianyfishguy]

Great work it looks amazing you did a wonderful job very relaxing to look at.

[Steve]

Thanks guys.
Palurdarium is fully cycled now so added some life to it today in the form of four giant danios, 2 doz bloody mary shrimp, few guppies and few snails.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRpZM_twnXo

[Steve]

Added four male fancy guppies today. Hard to believe because guppies are such a common fish, but these are actually the first time I have ever owned guppies.

[Steve]

Figured I'd do a little 5 week update on my first ever paludarium. Things are going surprisingly well in it so far. I did not experience any sort of die off of any plants during the acclimation period which was a little surprising. Only thing that happened was the ficus bonsai tree on the left dropped all its leaves when I repotted which is normal for it, but now it's pushing out a whole new set of growth the past 2 weeks. Shrimp are doing well and some are pregnant. Snails have been thriving and went from 3 snails to who knows how many now, 50+? Added 7 male guppies and 4 giant danios and they are doing well. All plants are doing great and even have some very nice lush green moss growing naturally on the rocks and wood now which is nice. For my first paludarium build I could not be happier with it so far.