Anyone do vivarium style tanks?

[snowballs99]

I have a large African water fern I've been growing emersed, along with some buce species that seem to only do well emersed

Skeleton king, Goliath etc.

I was thinking of a 10 gallon tank that's half emersed, so that the tips of the plants can remain growing out the water. It will have aquasoil + small internal filter for flow. I want it to be non-co2, but I can start it off with CO2 for a month if it helps.

Anyone have any tips or tricks that would help with this?

 

[Naturescapes_Rocco]

Do you mean like this?



Here are two tanks I tried that have both land and water. Let me know what questions, if any, these tanks could answer!

 

[JuJuFish]

I would love to see more of these style tanks if anyone else has them to share.

 

[Jeff Miotke]

 

[techman81]

So this post made me curious as to what the difference was between a Paludarium and a Vivarium. This is what Google AI told me:
A vivarium is the broad, overarching term for any enclosed habitat for plants or animals, while a paludarium is a specific type of vivarium that features both significant land and significant water sections, simulating a swamp or marsh. Think of it this way: all paludariums are vivariums, but not all vivariums are paludariums; a paludarium must have both land and water, whereas a vivarium could be fully aquatic (aquarium), land-based (terrarium), or semi-aquatic (paludarium).

 

[snowballs99]

Do you mean like this?
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Here are two tanks I tried that have both land and water. Let me know what questions, if any, these tanks could answer!

yes, that is exactly what i was talking about! Except it's even better.

I did have some questions about fert or humidity causing mold but I don't think any of those are problems in your set up.

Also wondered if being half emersed rosetti style plant like crypts get confused if their leaves are halfway emersed and submersed.

 

[snowballs99]

Thanks for your help everybody.
I decided to just go fully submerged instead. It was just going to be a 5.5 gallon shrimp tank.

My African water fern fills up 40% of the tank by itself and looked much better fully submerged so I'm going with that.

 

[TRyan]

Do you mean like this?
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Here are two tanks I tried that have both land and water. Let me know what questions, if any, these tanks could answer!

Love both of these. The rabbit's foot fern and ficus look amazing!

 

[Naturescapes_Rocco]

Love both of these. The rabbit's foot fern and ficus look amazing!

Thank you! They are extremely low maintenance tanks. I would do water changes once a month or so.

I love rabbit's foot ferns, but those are actually Asparagus "ferns"! Not actual ferns, but fern-like. While they look nice, they grow much larger than you'd think and they drop those needle-like leaves into the water a lot. Great emersed plants, though.

 

[Jeff Miotke]

Thank you! They are extremely low maintenance tanks. I would do water changes once a month or so.

I love rabbit's foot ferns, but those are actually Asparagus "ferns"! Not actual ferns, but fern-like. While they look nice, they grow much larger than you'd think and they drop those needle-like leaves into the water a lot. Great emersed plants, though.

Hah yea and they will make you bleed! i had one shoot a vine up to the light and grab the suspension cable, reaching about 5 feet up and then coil on the ceiling all within a few days. They are aggressive!