90g FW Vivarium/Aquarium Build

[deepfathom]

So I got this bright idea a few months back to build something Zoo quality or better. But I wanted to include my cold blooded friends with the amazon crew I was already planning on build a new aquarium for. So I picked up a used 90g long tank and started the design. My game plan was to stand the tank on end and do a rock background with a floating island and ledge work for plant life and the chameleon and geckos to hang out on. With the bottom half of the tank being design as a 40g aquarium. So game plan was to drill the tank, crave the background out of foam, and glass off the bottom half of the tank and screen off the top half. If your lost on were I'm going with this hopefully the pictures help. Below are pics of the project. (NOTE IT IS STILL IN PROGRESS AND ANY INPUT IS DEFINITELY WELCOME)

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[deepfathom]

Most recent update, Final Coats of Concrete added! Tomorrow once everything is dry I need to clean up the edges with a razor blade and sponge and then off to the glass store!!!

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[johnnymisty]

Looks good so whatcha keeping in it

[deepfathom]

Dry half is going to house a Chameleon, anole, maybe a dart frog and flying geckos. While the bottom I'm looking at doing archers, maybe puffers, and blood parrots. Once its complete it will have a 15g sump with about 8ft worth of spounges and bio chem-zorb for filtration. The end game though is that the plant life in the top portion filters the entire system with out the need for the sump filtration.

[aquabee]

Really nice! Love the idea of archers. Can't wait to see how it all turns out.

[sdaley6999]

Update please... I'm really liking where this is going.

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[mnemenoi]

Looking very nice, some of the more aboreal frogs would likely work well in it. Thumbnails could work, but their size and general failure of any PDF near any deep water would make me a bit worried.