How to Make A Nano Riparium! An Introduction to Emersed & Submerged Plant Growth in Aquarium Scaping
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- How to Create A Riparium & What to Know About Emersed & Submerged Aquarium Plant Growth
Creating emerged growth in vivariums, ripariums and terrariums using the plants already in your fish tanks and aqua scaped aquariums. Using aquasoil, gravel, sand, wood and accent stones. We will bring plants to live in two separate but simultaneously worlds of submerged growth and the emerssed world of sturdy, flowering growth. A Great craft or hobby to work on while under isolation or quarantine & and a great activity for the whole family.
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I’m loving this project! Several months ago I bought a 38 gallon aquarium, not realizing the apartment complex limits aquariums to 10 gallons. Hoping to save the tank and all the plants, I want to turn it into a paludarium, using stone and land supports to reduce the water area to 10 gallons. I’m planning a waterfall as well as a hydroponic system for the terrestrial areas. I’m just waiting to get back out and about to get the materials I need. This video has given me the idea to pull the HOB filter and put in sponge filters and start reducing water levels to begin transitioning the plants.
Thank you! Keep the videos coming!
I realize this video is 2 years old now, but it's my first time watching anything on your channel. It's a very informative one too! Just about what I have been thinking about starting up, is a tank/bowl or whatever set up. Great timing to find your videos! I've subscribed and will look for more vids you may have on this or other subjects. Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
Welcome aboard! Im so glad you decided to subscribe. Cheers
This is very inspiring. I was making my own plans before it even finished! The nails make me giggle.
Hah right on! And im glad i can make someone smile a little :)
Cheers!
This is probably the most helpful and informative video on the topic of emersed plants and riparian setups, thank you so much
Thank you! I appreciate the feedback, I hope it teally can help encourage folks to try out some blending of hobbies from bonsai , aquascaping, wabi kusa, Fishkeeping, shrimpkeeping and botany/ gardening
Love those blue dreams! Gotta show you the mason jar idea I did. (Exotics and Aquatics)
I think what I’ve set up recently is a riaparium. I grabbed some plants from a local river and found a 2.5 gal rimless tank to add them to. No tech. Just sitting on the windowsill. I may add fish. But for now, I’m just seeing if the plants will make it. I’d love to send you a pic and get your thoughts. ☺️
Love this!!! Thanks for all the info.
Glad it was helpful!
Just set one of these up last night with a huge punch bowl I got from a thrift store. Got the idea from you lol but I went with some dirt on the bottom in there with a sand cap. Never done anything like that before or anything like these little bowl ecosystems so we'll see how it goes! Thanks bro 🤙
Right on! I'd love to see it in a few months especially! (Or even now lol)
@@Fishtory hey I'll send you some pictures of some of the things I've got going on. Pretty much all inspired by your videos lol. Send them through email? Dont really need a response I know you're super busy but i remember you said you'd like to see my chilis rasbora tank so I'll send that too
You should try hard fine akadama. Doesn't have any ammonia, is very similar to aquasoils, but without the nutrients, so you can add your own. That way you know what's in there. Although, once established with shrimp or fish or snails, I have found you now longer need to use ferts anymore. I think it's pretty cool how it pulls the ph down to a very stable 6.4 from my tap water which is 7.6. It also drops the tds while it's absorbing nutrients. You know when it's established when it stops absorbing anything anymore. I use it in all my aquariums/paludariums and in wabi kusa setups, plus I have made wabi kusa balls out of it. I had to mush it up and add coca fibre and a rock in the middle. I even sold them for a while. I have one in my paludarium setup that is now over 5 years old and still going. Give it a try!
Yes, I do like Akadama...fluval stratum is fairly similar also
@@Fishtory Hi, I have tried both and I have to say fluval doesn't do the sucking thing as akadama does. Fluval doesn't admit ammonia, but it is nice to seed the substrate to where you want it and that can only be achieved with akadama. Hope you are feeling better. I have had sepsis a couple times and it sucks. Have they still got you on intravenous antibiotics? I had to have a nurse come into the home one time because I refused to stay in hospital. They wont let you do it yourself. After a week of that, I was on amoxicillin for another month. Please take care of yourself. Even though I sometimes disagree with you and comment, we are more similar than you think. Eg: I have no issue with black beard algae, unless it grows on my slow growing plants. Algae is part of the ecosystem. If anything your tanks look very similar to mine. Peace, love and speedy recovery! BTW akadama tends to be cheaper too. Hehehe
Thats an awesome setup, inspired to go to the $1 store right now and get a glass structure of some sort...I even have a bit of Eco complete leftover... The Shrimp never gets out??
I love this, thank you so much!
Thanks!
Thank YOU, i appreciate your support immensely. I hope 2p24 is a great new year for you and yours! Cheers
Omg how many gallons is this! You’re amazing!
Only 2
Hello Alexander, do you think there is any point in cleaning a filter in a tech-free aquarium like the one in your kitchen ? My idea is that it could bring in good bacteria that shrimp, snails and even plants could use ?
Brilliant blue for the nails and even more brilliant that you are there alongside your wife, especially during the most stressful times of the pandemic ! 🤗
Hello Alexander, penses-tu qu'il y a un intérêt à nettoyer un filtre dans un aquarium without tech comme celui qui se trouve dans ta cuisine ? Mon idée est que ça pourrait amener de bonnes bactéries dont les crevettes, escargots et même les plantes auraient l'utilité ?
Génial le bleu pour les ongles et encore plus génial que tu sois là aux côtés de ta femme, particulièrement au moments les plus anxiogènes de la pandémie ! 🤗💝💖
I think just adding plants and wandering around the house with clothes you wear out in the world, actually introduces plenty of bacteria... It's nearly impossible to avoid bacterial and fungal spores and cells. They're everywhere. But you dont need a filter for shrimp or snails... necessarily. But for fish ive decided other than air breathing species like gouramis and bettas... they like oxygen in the water via a pump, airstone, or a filter...just to move the water a little.
Closest thing I have is my fiddler crab tank with Java fern, anubias, and cryptocoryne... but the emersed growth is still all in the tank... (that's a lie... I added a pothos... it hasn't died but it isn't growing super quick either)
And I have a philodendron in the top of my quarantine tank... and I just set up my medaka over winter tank with king tut grass and cattails in terracotta pots I sealed to keep them rootbound and smaller to grow out the back of the lid where I used to have a hang on back filter
Sounds awesome!
Interesting. :) Since you mentioned European plant sellers, I thought I'd add Tropica.com. I think they are Danish. Their website is in several languages including English. They have a very good search system for plants. You can not only sort them according to height and use, but also according to how easy or difficult they are to look after.
Great helpful video :D question about using aquarium water do you use like water change water or do you take water between water changes?
Either way...but i just don't use gravel vacuumed water thats had the silt and mulm all churned up, unless i want to inoculats a tub outside or something that won't contain animals....so its great to gravel vac and get the sludge plus water for planted set ups...but basically just full of nitrates and even ammonia if you use it to get a tank going.... a piece of filter floss, sponge or even wood from the tank works far better for that... all the good bacteria without the detritus that needs to be broken down to be healthy for fish to interact with.
Cool video .like
Hey really amazing video,was curious how do you trim and replant the emersed plants. Will they regrow when you put them back in water (even after they flower)
So it depends if they are perineal or annuals, but most tropical plants can be planted via stem even after flowering, and then resume vegetative growth. However some cabombas and bacopa plants, which I've seen flower emersed (and beautifully so)...totally melted under water immediately after flowering, and the roots stayed and re-sprouted but the actual stem and leaves/needles all fell away into mush.
So it's case by case, but as a general rule tropical plants can survive flowering and return to vegetation growth, where as some emergent growth from suntropics or temperate regions, tend to melt and regrow after flowering completes.
The Secret History Living in Your Aquarium The Secret History Living in Your Aquarium thank you so much, very detailed and helpful response. Just to get more specific, if I had some stem plants like indica bonsai and limnophila sessiliflora. and they grew out of my aquarium and flowered. I would just snip them off from the stem under water and replant it submerged with the flower still attached ? Or would it be smarter to keep some plants always submerged, so When I propagate, the transition will be easier. I believe most aquatic plants are perennials.
Also any tips for how to promote emersed growth ? Saw people say cover the aquarium top with Saran Wrap, and mist plants daily as they emerse and after...Working on a shallow pond style tank, trying to get as much information as possible to aid in maintenance.
How is the water circulation done? It looks like you have none doesn't the water turn stagnate and smell?
No, the plants and super deep substrate will take care of it, as long as you remove / trim the excess plant material semi-regularly
Also in this small of a space. The shrimp and fish stir the water by moving around too
😷💅🏼🌿Lovely, Very useful video-thanks. I’m an absolute beginner and researching videos to build a tank with plants and look forward to your content. Sub’d from Bezerkeley. Also, I like your E.Munch screamer 😱 tchotchke on the sill. Peace!
Right on! Welcome. Stay safe from the smoke monster down there...we have it too, but my friends shared some gnarly bad photos of Oakland and Sanfran
So cool❤️❤️👍
Thank you! Enjoy
interesting philosophy
I like a small messy tank with lots of Algy wood and let it Rip
Have the shrimp been breeding in there? Do you do water changes? I feel like I’d bet a sail explosion if all those dead leaves were left at the bottom.
The shrimp breed very very rarely...and usually only 4 or 5 shrimplettes seem to hatch. The 2 mothers are still the originals and each have had maybe 10 to 15 in 2 years in there with 3 males
Also i expected snail explosion too but its just the 3 lil ones...oh and the shrimp stay babies in there...stunted until i move them to a big tank ..then they get bigger
Water changes are just top offs ...but my tds is about 30 out of the tap
I’m curious about an update on this! Love it!
What are the pros and cons to making a riparium, either open og enclosed?
Some animals like turtles, archer fish, gouramis and bettas need humid air, or their eggs are hatched floating on bubble nests... also animals like mudskjppers need that 80%+ humidity and warm air, so that's the main reason to enclose one.
Also some people want to grow plants, mosses or even lichen that need that humid air as well...many tropic plants fail to flower or flourish without it.
@@Fishtory That makes sense. I'll do a tank with a lid then. Then I also dont have to worry about mold in my apartment
@@Desmond000007 also a good point hehe
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Dude what's with the nails? Not hating just curious?
Hah cabin fever + bored wife and i sitting on the porch while we started chatting and she claimed it was really hard to do her nails and i said "osshst i bet i could do a better job my first attempt...gimmie the bottle."
Plus i suppose it actually gets people's attention to whatever i point at