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Jabba the Frog: My first Paludarium


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#1 Offline ryanp347 - Posted December 14 2021 - 7:33 PM

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Going to start a journal for my first paludarium build! Right now it is home to a budgetts frog, some feeder guppies, anacharis, duckweed, selaginella, and a heart shaped philodendra.

Man these budgetts frogs are so derpy and amazing haha super fast and agile in the water with a huge appetite makes for a fun time when feeding them.

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#2 Offline ryanp347 - Posted December 14 2021 - 8:32 PM

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Video quality is pretty meh but here you go! Week one


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#3 Offline Leo - Posted December 15 2021 - 1:53 AM

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your selaginella does not look like it is doing very well


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#4 Offline ryanp347 - Posted December 15 2021 - 8:32 AM

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your selaginella does not look like it is doing very well


Thanks for the heads up! I literally got this maybe 2 days ago and that's how it was when I bought it so we'll give it some time and see what happens. Any recommendations?
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#5 Offline ryanp347 - Posted December 15 2021 - 8:37 AM

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BTW thjs is selaginella uncinata or rainbow peacock fern which is where the other colors besides green come from. It does look a bit unhappy though colors are light

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#6 Offline ryanp347 - Posted December 15 2021 - 9:29 PM

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Got some new members today! Tooooo many! So, I'm gonna build an aquascape aquarium thing soon because I'm impulsive and it'll look cool!

 

Here they are for now:

 

Male Guppy

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Male Guppy + Veil Tail Cherry Barb

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The whole gang

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Nerite Snail

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and Jabba of course but upside down version

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#7 Offline ryanp347 - Posted December 15 2021 - 9:32 PM

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Got a couple new plants too, again that didn't really fit well soooo some will end up getting used in the aquascape instead.

 

Added a Brazil sword semi-aquatic and another that I can't remember. Then the one that didn't fit was a carpet plant called dwarf baby tears. I did not plan this tank out. At all. But I'll get it to work eventually. 



#8 Offline Leo - Posted December 16 2021 - 3:20 AM

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BTW thjs is selaginella uncinata or rainbow peacock fern which is where the other colors besides green come from. It does look a bit unhappy though colors are light

 

Yes, I am well aware. That stuff is all over the place in the forests over here. In dim lights it is violet/purple, in medium light conditions it is blue-green, and in high lights is should a bronze copper color. When it is white like that it means the light was far too bright and that its already on the brink of death



#9 Offline Leo - Posted December 16 2021 - 3:29 AM

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As an example, this is a small cutting of S.uncinata in a paludarium like yours. the left side of the plant is healthy, the right side is already dead. Sometimes it does die off naturally, but you need some healthy green/blue parts so that the plant can establish itself without dying out.


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#10 Offline antsriondel - Posted December 16 2021 - 7:48 AM

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where's boba frog??????



#11 Offline ryanp347 - Posted December 16 2021 - 10:28 AM

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BTW thjs is selaginella uncinata or rainbow peacock fern which is where the other colors besides green come from. It does look a bit unhappy though colors are light

 

Yes, I am well aware. That stuff is all over the place in the forests over here. In dim lights it is violet/purple, in medium light conditions it is blue-green, and in high lights is should a bronze copper color. When it is white like that it means the light was far too bright and that its already on the brink of death

 

 

Awesome thanks again! Moved the light further away from it and also turned it down a bit. Pretty new into plants so I wasn't aware, probably should have done some research but I was impulsive with this setup.


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#12 Offline ryanp347 - Posted December 16 2021 - 10:31 AM

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where's boba frog??????

 

Haha here's a pic from today!

 

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#13 Offline antsriondel - Posted December 17 2021 - 1:30 PM

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where's boba frog??????

 

Haha here's a pic from today!

 

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awesome!!!






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