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shuks · 10-26-2005, 07:16 PM

Im not to sure what you mean by the waterfall effect, but here is an idea of mine that I'm going to do with my 30 gallon...

It's going to be turned into a vivarium. about 1/4 water for fish, and 3/4 plants and rock for frogs and anoli. Im going to make a waterfall effect with an HOB filter. I'll build piles of rocks up in the corners like little islands. Then im going to grow moss -that I found in my back yeard- all over the rocks. The hob is going to act like a water fall, falling onto the rock island. I'm going to have to silicon glue all the rocks in place so they can stay up.

Then I take a thick plastic garbage bag and put it betweyne the rocks and the glass. It will seperate the dirt form the fish water. Then I plant everything with terestrial plants and some easy growing aquadic plants and ferns. Its kind-of hard to clearly explain this idea, especialy the rock and garbage bad thing, but once I'm done I think it will look really cool. Ill post some pics when it's finnished

10-26-2005, 07:16 PM	#2 (permalink)
shuks Planted Tank Enthusiast (View User Tanks) PTrader: (0) Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: vancouver, bc Posts: 623	Im not to sure what you mean by the waterfall effect, but here is an idea of mine that I'm going to do with my 30 gallon... It's going to be turned into a vivarium. about 1/4 water for fish, and 3/4 plants and rock for frogs and anoli. Im going to make a waterfall effect with an HOB filter. I'll build piles of rocks up in the corners like little islands. Then im going to grow moss -that I found in my back yeard- all over the rocks. The hob is going to act like a water fall, falling onto the rock island. I'm going to have to silicon glue all the rocks in place so they can stay up. Then I take a thick plastic garbage bag and put it betweyne the rocks and the glass. It will seperate the dirt form the fish water. Then I plant everything with terestrial plants and some easy growing aquadic plants and ferns. Its kind-of hard to clearly explain this idea, especialy the rock and garbage bad thing, but once I'm done I think it will look really cool. Ill post some pics when it's finnished __________________ 75 gallon, fillstar xp2 with inline reactor, 12 Lb pressurised co2, 4.2 WPG-corallife 3x96 watt PC-, fluorite/silica-sand substright.