1.60m Riparium
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March 13, 2011 at 12:12 am #301204
Because I moved to a other city, I sold my 1.20m tank and bought a 1.60m tank for it instead.
The tank measurements are: 160x50x50cm.
I got the idea to make a riparium after looking for info about the Copella arnoldi. I wanted to keep these beautiful fishes a long time a go but after reading that these fishes will come more appropriate in a riparium instead of a full aqaurium, I started to make a plan for how to set up the right tank for them. The water area will be 160x50x20/max. 25cm (lxdxh).
Decoration underwater:
Small Echinodorus plants
Hydrocotyle leucocephala
Spiderwood
Oak and beech leavesDecoration above water:
Philodendron scandens
Vriesea
Davalia bulata
Moss and some more plants
Liana and some woodThe fishes that are going to swim in it are:
2m 5f Dicrossus maculatus
2m 6f Copella arnoldi
6 Hypoptopoma
3 Hemiloricaria eigenmanni
1 pair Laetacara curviceps
and if there is still some place over there will be a school of 25 Nannostomus unifasciatus or eques in it.There will be no land animals like frogs are other creatures.
Because I will take a slow time on this project I decided to try to make my own background for the tank. For the land area I will later on use Epiweb or fernroot plates.
I am still looking for what kin of lightning I will use above the tank. I think I want to use 1 70W HQI with 2 T5 or T8 TL lubes and make them dimming.
Now some photo’s:
This is how the tank looked like before I worked on it:
After sanding and removing the background:
After two paint layers:
Start of making a part for the waterfall where I later on will make a root structure on it with PUR foam:
Start of making my own root:
Total of how far I am now:
Any tips or ideas are more then welcome.
March 13, 2011 at 9:38 am #341690nice project! Looking forward to seeing how this shapes up
March 13, 2011 at 11:29 am #341695Yeah looks fantastic so far! How does it work with the polystyrene? Does all that stay in the tank?
March 13, 2011 at 5:53 pm #341698I’m not sure if al the polystyrene stays in the tank. Maybe I will remove the polystyrene above the red line. The red line indicates the maximum water level of the tank. For the background above water I want to use Epiweb or fernroots plates or granulate, haven’t figured it out yet.
The root section will stay at that point. The rest of the polystyrene will get more depth by cutting a way some parts or adding more parts.Instead of using HQI light and T5 or T8 TL lubes, I will going to use LED lights.
I will use a 10W LED construction lamp (similar to 100W halogen) of 6000K and on both sides of the 10W LED construction lamp one Power LED with GU10 fitting.March 13, 2011 at 6:27 pm #341701Now that’s Dutch quality! Ziet er erg mooi uit joh!
March 13, 2011 at 9:33 pm #341705Thanks Stefan
March 14, 2011 at 8:14 am #341708So you coat the poly in something later?
March 14, 2011 at 3:55 pm #341726Yes the Poly gets a coating together with a colouration.
March 14, 2011 at 8:43 pm #341735Great looking project Gert! Look forward to watching it progress. Could you please give some info on the product you will use to coat the foam? Thanks!
March 14, 2011 at 9:26 pm #341736Haha Jim pre-empted my next question!
March 14, 2011 at 11:32 pm #341741There are two ways to coat the Poly so far I know.
I hope I got the right English words for it, not sure if the things are called the same.* Using Tile adhesive and then Exopy resin to finish it
or
* Using Elastopur and pigment or turf or fernroots granulate mixed with it.I haven’t figured out which way I will take but will let you guy’s know what I will do.
July 4, 2011 at 4:11 pm #344438Been a while since I’ve posted an update of this tank. Meanwhile this tank is almost ready.
I’ve changed the background and added a lot of real wood in the tank. The background is coated with Elastopur mixed with some brown colour pigment and sand. Her are some pictures of the background when I coated it:Here a picture of the background in the tank:
July 4, 2011 at 4:11 pm #344439Here with the wood and sand:
Her with water in the tank but no lights above it, water level is 35 cm:
Here some details of the tank:
Plants that I will use in this tank are:
3 Echinodorus radicans
few Hydrocleis nymphoides
Eichhornia azurea or diversifolia
Maybe some South American moss for the stream. (any ideas which moss is perfect for it?)Above water:
Philodendron scandensThis is what I had in mind for the fish:
2m 5f Dicrossus maculatus
2m 6f Copella arnoldi
25 Nannostomus unifasciatus
6 Hypoptopoma thoracatum
4a5 Hemiloricaria teffeana or sp. AmazoniaMaybe when there is some space left I will add some Taeniacara candidi and maybe a L183 or L264.
July 4, 2011 at 6:57 pm #344441Looking very good indeed.
July 4, 2011 at 7:16 pm #344442The sand that I am using is just filter sand.
For the plants I will use clay to put it at the roots of the plants.AuthorPostsYou must be logged in to reply to this topic.

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