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LuQEE
post Apr 11 2012, 10:03 PM

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can anyone teach me how to make the background step by step.
im stuck with at what to use to hardened it? read a few names that they used, but not sure or familiar what i am looking for in hardware shop since they always said the brand name, here in malaysia, we dont even have that brand name.



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post Apr 13 2012, 08:56 PM

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hoho thanx for the tons of info brows.gif

wonder any lfs near my place they sell terrarium background. NA got them?
but my tank got middle glass bracers in them, you think i should cut those background into 2 parts (1/4 form the original 2ft size) so i cant put inside the tank?
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post Apr 16 2012, 11:02 AM

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hurm, cutting the brace itself seems hard for me since my razor cant even go through between the glass to cut the silicone glue.
so instead, planning to ditch the background idea for the time being since my 2ft tank is currently not large enuff in width length (30cm).
any comments on my layout test scape? playing with the hard-scape while waiting enough budget to get holland sand and submersible water pump.
*substrate gonna be about 2 inches deep so the scape will look like mini island like in riverside
*on the left side, will topup with amazonia on top of the lava rocks for emmersed plants while output filter will constantly water it there and hopefully the barricade rocks will become mini waterfall ..lol whistling.gif
*branches, some of them will be tied with creep plants like pokok duit2 and btween brances will be T. ionantha's.
*Right side will be the basking spot for turtles, underneath will be placed water pump to regulate flow and redirect them to input filter.
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post Apr 16 2012, 12:17 PM

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QUOTE(broken_string @ Apr 16 2012, 12:00 PM)
btw, can i ask how high will the water level be?
and what kinda wood is tat ? will rot or not ??

and what kinda filter will you be using for this setup ?
after adding the gravel, and the hardscape will be higher, water level i guess must be middle level point of the barricade rocks
the wood planning to change to more hard wood type later when everything is complete, but for now use that first la, also 80-90% of the wood will not not touch water and hopefully it will not rot. but fear the wood will soak the water at the bottom and all those branches will end up wet/damp.

filter, planning to use internal filter, hidden behind the immersed plants or at the back of the woods & rocks.
if not, will use my unused 2213 la.
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post Apr 16 2012, 01:56 PM

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thats the one!!! i got that T.Ionathia idea from that scape..love it rclxms.gif and
with the mixture of this idea

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want to have that kind of tank, the bottom one but since lack of space, budget and parents permission to keep more than 1 aquarium, have to do this one and put inside my cramped room sweat.gif but i prefer all of them are in my room though. help me relax.

the wood will have to wait till i found a good and cheap replacement, LFS charging them quite expensive for me.
yup, will reconsider on the 2213 filter then, much easier and will not cramped the small tank.

dont care if youre asking me a lot of questions, i prefer it to be that way, easier to improve my skills and helps eliminating careless mistakes which might had been done by previous peers. hehe
thanx anyway rclxms.gif
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post Apr 22 2012, 03:05 AM

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dont mix turtles with lizs or frogs or newts or salamanders... they will get bitten or worse, eaten.
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post Apr 22 2012, 10:55 PM

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^ riparium... and nice one rclxms.gif
im still looking for cheap Cynops orientalis.. used to have lots of them brows.gif since they are quite cheap, RM4-5 in lfs each near my home
nowadays, their price is too high or no stock hoho
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post Apr 23 2012, 12:33 AM

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well, one advice, before putting any wood into any tank, i usually boil them up to kill those unwanted stuffs.
in my case, since they are too big, i just dumped them in a basin, filled with hot boiling water till it covered all of them, then let them untill water is cool down and dry it right back.

the wood im using is a mixture of cut wood i found along the road by the MPSJ (lol) and my longan tree. i found out, hard wood are better since they take a very long time to rot.
the MPSJ woods already starts to become britte and break easily lol

need to refer to the sifus here la, my method i got them from my planted tank method hehe
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post Apr 23 2012, 08:40 PM

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thats y we collect/pillage them from the wild~ brows.gif
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post Apr 23 2012, 10:15 PM

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if anyone happen to go hunting for Driftwood/bogwood/branchy stuffs/flora/fauna in the wild~ tongue.gif ,
can take a few extras and sell them cheaper here?
i know some of us in here, wont mind paying for it rclxms.gif
besides, this way, we can eliminate invasive species of flora and fauna in our country brows.gif , well, if you know how to differentiate for one tongue.gif
just caught 10 huge Rana catesbeiana last 2 weeks and sold them to Chinese restaurant lol..
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post Apr 23 2012, 11:45 PM

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those woods got from LFS or pillaging?
trying to get that type of wood while going for an adventure, end up not found anything liek that.. cry.gif
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post Apr 23 2012, 11:51 PM

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need some estimation, how much is the average price for the small one and the price for the big one (each)?
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post Apr 23 2012, 11:59 PM

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cheap..maybe bcoz they are bogwood instead of the branchy driwftwood..
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post Apr 24 2012, 12:09 AM

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hurm... so in the end, my turtles riparium have to hold yet again..due to limited budget(one almost cost me about RM80+ each) and not finding cheap suitable branchy driftwood.. sigh..
its the 5th time~ vmad.gif
their current temporary holding cell:
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post Apr 24 2012, 12:26 AM

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lol jk jk

i knew it would result to this..
hurm.. so far, the small CSST usually tries to dig alot... so planning to put barrier rocks while the rest just plain gravel or sand.
for the RES issues, barrier rocks will prevent the RES from eating my plants(immersed), and the plants will help a bit by sucking down those excess poo, and using 2 filters, eheim 2213 and hob or internal filter rated 500l/h type..sigh~
later after 2 years, need to throw them to a cement pool like youve said , since cannot fit the tank already lol
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post Apr 24 2012, 08:34 AM

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lol genielee.. haha..tibe2 chanas crop pix inside that paludarium hehe
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post Apr 24 2012, 09:17 AM

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QUOTE(broken_string @ Apr 24 2012, 09:12 AM)
so much work juz for those guys ?  notworthy.gif
well i think a terrarium for them can work and be quite nice but only if its huge.
at least 5ft and above  tongue.gif
sigh, im having backache just to WC them evryday lol...
now every evening, dumping them in my temporary 2ft community tank for them to excercise and swimming lesson, they manage to scare my weird tilapia fish shitless which is 5 times the size, turtles double team attack ftw lol
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post Apr 24 2012, 10:04 AM

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haha, that pic.. lol.. youre waiting for my kura kura , while i waiting for ure channas inside that pic lol
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post Apr 24 2012, 01:32 PM

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hehe.. this thread is soo alive... rclxms.gif
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post Apr 24 2012, 07:54 PM

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mine is like that too... totally ruined the view lol..
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