Reply With QuoteNice tank MedicineMan. Looks awesome is there still anymore leaking?
Orlando what brings you to AquaticQuotient,lol
Im in search of rare plants that i can get overseas - Frozenbarb
Hi Dedy! Good to see some familar people here..You already know what I think of your tank/pond..
Nice tank MedicineMan. Looks awesome is there still anymore leaking?
Orlando what brings you to AquaticQuotient,lol
Im in search of rare plants that i can get overseas - Frozenbarb
Hey whats up! A friend of mine on the other side of the globe wanted me to join, so I did.. What plants do you need? PM me and I will get you prices with shipping..Good to see you over hear!
This is amazing....Gosh......well its def a great idea, truly inspirational...you gave me some ideas.
....will try and see if this can work out for a HDB flat....LOL...but on a smaller scale....much smaller....say abt a 6ft x 4 ft x 4 ft ? maybe as a wall display....?
Anyone else here thinks i have gone bonkers? Lol....
let me know how much the HDB fine you for having such a big tank in your house... lol...Originally Posted by Vaahnan
This is amazing....Gosh......well its def a great idea, truly inspirational...you gave me some ideas
Anyone else here thinks i have gone bonkers? Lol....
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Vaahnan,
First you got to get HDB's permission to install such a large tank.
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Vaahnan,
First you got to get HDB's permission to install such a large tank.
Haiz.....sad so sad.......but it's not that it's out of the question.....scale it down a bit....but for the background i am sure we can use styrofoam or something lighter...you know maybe like the ones they sell for fishtank backgrounds....but i was thinking more of a wall display....welll all the same....this dudes tank rocks!!!!!
@ExpelledBAN,
Not much leaking as before. But the setup will still lose water whatsoever, in considerable amount at least due to splashes and evaporation.
@Orlando,
Good to see you at "the other side of the world"
Folks,
The weight of such setup is something to be reckoned with. And the hazards of setup when construction is not done properly is very real. From leak to excessive room dampness, from mold to crumbling walls.
It could be done within an elevated building level, but you will need good experts to make sure that everything goes right to the very details.
You could try building a huge paludarium of a fraction scale instead, several feet base and high using thick glass. Then use styrofoam as the basic shape, covering them with mortar mix and sculpt it, then add finishing to look reasonably real (artistic hands needed).
There will be much less worry and it would be more versatile (not as a part of a house structure).
One more top view picture to show
Holy smokes~~ The orange lighting brings out another type of scape.
Look even more stunning then the white ones.
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Its an admirations of not only the set up but the effort put in!
hes work its so great
i wanna make my own someday
can i swim in your ponds?
i am a newbie and my english is no good
im sorry if im wrong or have a bad setence
Wanted to chip to say that i really do admire your 'project'. Simply stunning.....boy will it cost a bomb to get it done over here...and that is not talking about buying a place that has to come with it.
This is soooo OMG....it's perfect!!
Salute to you Medicineman...
Thumbs up!!
omg, this is beautiful..
too bad this isn't portable or i'll come and take it away secretly
Thanks for sharing, awaiting for further updates.......
Latest full overall pic
It has been some time and things have changed. One thing missing is sunlight. As the season change, so does the angle of which sunlight hits (yes, this does happen as well on tropical Indonesia). No more straight sunlight hitting the pond section directly for the last several months. It does bring some harm to plants (esp the ones demanding stronger light), problems related to lacking of light.
My artificial lighting system does help and prevent things from crashing completely, though it can never replace the dimming, natural light.
How I wish I have bought something stronger to light up this tank at the times like now :icon_roll
On the overall, they look great and the system is running stable. I managed to keep it running relatively free of algae (frankly, I have a bit of stubborn BBA, but they are much under control and hard to spot).
On the canopy section, a part of the photos hanging down are going a little bit bald. I suspect it needs a major supplement/overhaul at the pot substrate. Or perhaps it just abandon the more poorly nourished area and prefer to grow more near the nutrient stable water edge (look at how they colonize waterfall and the pond edges).
It is feeding time.
Some of the fish begging for food
A quick count of fauna up to date:
- 4 Angels
- 4 Bala shark
- 4 Puntius denisonii
- 100s of Rummy nose tetra
- 2 Puntius johorensis
- 3 Clown loach
- 2 SAE
- 5 CAE
- several wild rasboras (unidentified sp)
- A dozen of nerite snails
- A runaway red platy (I swear it was a baby fish hitchhiker)
It has been sometime since some of the fish were introduced into the setup and they have grown quite much. I'm giving the credit to ample living space and plenty of circulation.
What's surprising is how fast can bala shark grow in just less than a year, considering they started as much smaller fish, even smaller than a big SAE. For size comparison : Full sized SAE, young adult Puntius, adult platy and full sized rummy nose. You can see how dwarfed the others become when coming face to face. Used to have 10 of them, 2 jumped out and die (such accident is expected to happen when you have such uncovered setup filled with good jumpers), 4 was successfully caught and re-homed to a koi pond.
More of the underwater views... Enjoy!
Some of the echinodorus :
Echinodorus barthii, acquired as plantlet
This is a huge species of echinodorus, as shown here. The leaves alone are bigger than your palms.
It is somewhat damaged (and several other plants the same) by the activity of this fish, said to be striped barb from Sumatera. I got this one from a friend who swear he caught it from a stream while he was back at his hometown at Jambi, Sumatera.
Echinodorus rubin, also acquired as emmersed plantlet. Brought this one as a gift from a friend in Singapore.
Yet another echinodorus giant growing dozens of leaves. It could have grown better under stronger lighting.
Echinodorus marble queen. I started off with a motherplant. Soon it pops 2 plantlets and here they are now.
The setup pretty much fill itself up without me adding more plants (see how bare it was initially).
Gorgeous! But how are you dealing with the dampness and mold?
Last edited by Fei Miao; 1st Jul 2008 at 14:09. Reason: typo
...I love rubies too ...
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@fei miao,
Areas that are damp, some with thin layer of moss/aglae form growing are very limited to those nearby where the water are (including waterfall and nearby splashes). It gets quite dry some distance from that, and I do not see any moldy wall or serious humidity hike due to the setup exisiting in the house. It could be due to good ventilation/air circulation within as well.
It is important to keep the walls well sealed which drains to ground before one attempt to build such setup. Keep your walls safe from seeping dampness and related issues.
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