Anyone doing a Ripirarium

[eklikewhoa]

This is what I plan to use if I start this project

[Totenkampf]

i have done many paludarium and some riparium in the past, they are far easier than planted aqauria. Any bog type plants will do since they are basically growing hydroponically in the wild. Many aquarium plants really shine when grown this way, like swords, crypts, and acorus. My favorite are dwarf taro which some call "elephant ears". The Black Magic variety is stunning. Some fave bog plants are Aglaonema "silver queen", aluminum plants, and golden pothos. This list of aquarium plants too avoid are all great for ripariums:

http://en.microcosmaquariumexplorer.com/wiki/Worst_Aquarium_Plants

I will be making a paludarium for my daugthers hermit crabs in the next month or so. You can even put a cork wall along the back and mount bromeliads since they appreciate the humidity. Some nice sites for plants and supplies:

http://ripariumsupply.com/

http://www.blackjungleterrariumsupply.com/

http://www.tropiflora.com/

I have done one in a riparium in a HOB fuge for a Rainbowfish tank to keep nitrates down and it looked cool. Plants growing in an emmersed state have a higher metabolism than submerged plants and they will out compete these for nutrients much like submersed aquatic plants will out compete algae. Keep this in mind when adding them to a planted aqaurium, the results may not be favorable.

[TonyO]

i have done many paludarium and some riparium in the past, they are far easier than planted aqauria. Any bog type plants will do since they are basically growing hydroponically in the wild. Many aquarium plants really shine when grown this way, like swords, crypts, and acorus. My favorite are dwarf taro which some call "elephant ears". The Black Magic variety is stunning. Some fave bog plants are Aglaonema "silver queen", aluminum plants, and golden pothos. This list of aquarium plants too avoid are all great for ripariums:

http://en.microcosmaquariumexplorer.com/wiki/Worst_Aquarium_Plants

I will be making a paludarium for my daugthers hermit crabs in the next month or so. You can even put a cork wall along the back and mount bromeliads since they appreciate the humidity.

You're right. Quite a few of the common aquarium plants are actually emergent vegetation that are only occasionally submerged. At the very least, they live along the edges of aquatic areas, so that they can be pollinated when they bloom. Anubias, for example, is a beetle-pollinated plant.

I'd appreciate some pics when you're done. I'd like to see how you mount the bromeliads.

[eklikewhoa]

That's what I want to do! A lot of the aquatic plants look so much nicer emergent grown! Crypts come to mind also Bacopa looks way nicer that way too!

[SunnyHouTX]

I've been planning to do something like this as a wetlands type filter whenever I go into a house and have a proper fish room. I want overflows from multiple tanks drain into a segment with bio balls in the first 2' - 3' of a 7ft 210 and have a riparium in the next 3' - 4', and the last segment housing all the different return pumps or a single pump with a manifold.

[Totenkampf]

I'd appreciate some pics when you're done. I'd like to see how you mount the bromeliads.

I wish that i had some but all the pics stayed with the ex. i was into herps 15 years ago, mainly dendrobates and phyllomedusine frogs along with day geckos. i always mounted the smaller neoregilia and tillandsia bromeliads with liquid nails when i was mounting to wood or cork, it isnt toxic and sets up pretty well. i think hot glue would damage the plant. i usually carved backgrounds from styrofoam and spray packing foam so the i could cut pockets out for plants. make sure you cut a hole in the bottom of the pocket and mount a hose in there so it drains. the pockets could be filled with the appropriate soil (or soilless soil) for earthstars (cryptanthus) or other bromeliads. i usually but some moss around the base to cover the glue but not too much or it will retain too much moisture and promote rot. cork tubes are cool too since you can plant in the top and also punch holes in the sides to root things into, like a natural strawberry pot. there is a great bromeliad society here in houston too, i have been to their sales at mercer botanical gardens. i will photodocument the hermit crab vivarium when i get time to make it. i love how aquariums meet terrariums in the form of riapriums!

[digitallinh]

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[eklikewhoa]

http://www.plantedtank.net/forums/sp...-complete.html

I want some of his plants and there are listings right now by others with some seriously amazing plants.... decisions decisions

[eklikewhoa]

Balling out of control...

http://www.plantedtank.net/forums/ri...ice-setup.html

[SunnyHouTX]

Damn, Jacob need to catch up.

[digitallinh]

Wow, awesome tank. I need one of those in my living room.