So day before yesterday I somehow chipped my new 65 gallon tank. It did not leak but there was a small crack and I could never trust it to hold 650 pounds of pressure again. So I am thinking of what to do with it. I have had every animal under the sun so I won't be selling it....because i'd like to do something I have never done. I don't even know where to post this, herp forums, plant forums...both....currently I just belong to reef keeping and this forum. So first before joining others I am asking your advice. I would like to plant this tank with mostly perlite and some soil. I say mostly perlite because there obviously will be no drainage. I will have a solid layer of perlite on the bottom, I think. Then a 50/50 mix of organic soil/perlite on top. Then I would like to plant different kinds of plants and grow them with CFLs or T5s. I don't need large plants, just enough and the right kinds to sustain a couple of Anole (small) lizards or frogs. I could just have these animals the old fashioned way and clean their tanks every week but I am going for a living habitat because the tank is too large for me to clean by myself. Does anyone here keep other plants? Would it be possible to grow grass and/or moss indoors in a setup like this...and other plants like ferns ect? I would keep a glass top on the tank, so it would be moist, and water as needed, plus organic nutes if the animals don't produce enough waste. I would have either a 6 bulb T5 system which I already have or several CFLs which I also already have. Does anyone here have ANY experience doing this sort of thing? Any and all advice is appreciated! I don't even know if it's possible. I want only very small animals so their poop would not kill the plants and so I would not have to have a helped every time it needed cleaning. Any advice re: what kinds of plants could survive, how and what to plant them in, what animals....ect....all appreciated. I have never done this, nor have I read of others doing it but I am sure it's been done. Maybe we have some herp experts in the house mixed with our 'obvious' plant experts Also, some animals may require heat, does anyone know any plants that could live in a warm environment with ease? Instead of a below tank heater bad for roots, I was thinking just a heat lamp instead. It will most likely require plants that would be tropical that liked heat and moisture. Oh and here is the old tank. Another $200 down, best I can say is I like the new rock work islands a lot better. But damn it was so much work. Forgive me, I need to show the pics to someone and my other site is down! Last week Now Good help = rep for you!
Im calling you on that Canna!!! Under the sea maybe but i aint seen you with no giraffes,camels,snow mountain tigers and shit like that/:icon_rolleyes: You need to up your game before you make wild claims like that girl:razz3: Boa can sort you a decent snake or rat that would happily live in that tank. I kept rats in old fish tanks once upon a time cos my mate bred them just like Boa does so always a few spare. It seems these days the big money in animal breeding is furless cats, furless dogs. Im thinking maybe furless rats might catch on ? I actually feel pretty sorry for Rats cos hey get a bad name. The domestic ones i kept and help breed were all clever as fuck and tame too. Although i always found it strange he went from breeding budgies and canaries to breeding rats to breeding staffordshire bull terriers
You may be able to get around the no drainage issue. If you use a larger stone layer at the bottom you could discreetly run a hose from there and pump out the settling fluids. Might not be optimal but you should still be able to flush or clean out the waste at the bottom if your pump is powerful enough. Just a thought.
bahahaha that was funny alright Although we don't live together anymore. :/ Sadz (not really) But lol, still, lol. I have kind of put this on the back burner but when I do it I have decided to keep poison dart frogs. I am just about to head out the door or I would write more....but I saw this had replies so I had to check. lol, the ramp. God that was stupid.
Poison dart frogs? You throw at people? I liked the bearded dragons I had. They were cool. We had a couple others quite awhile ago that were really cool. I can't remember what they were at the moment but their bellies were a dark purple and they were fast bastards. That's how we lost them. My wife was going to feed them and one sprung up to "escape" and she instinctily slammed the hood down. Well he "half" escaped. My son loved his Anoles. They liked a "tropical" feel. And we had live plants all over it. I would have answered a lot of your questions, if you asked me about 15-20 years ago. I know all the ways to keep them and everything else for their enviroment has changed.
