My tank is 1220X460X460 mm and I'm running a Fluval 404 through it. I need help with in this project are; Materials for the shelf to hold substrate, technique for holding the walls together, where to put my input and output for my filter, possibly creating a waterfall with my filter output, and I'm sure I'll have a million more questions since I don't stop asking them.
In the tank at the moment are 2 Figure Eight Puffers, 10 Neons and 1 Pleco. The water is strictly fresh (the puffers were adjusted to it a year ago by previous owners), but once I have completly sorted out my dry land and tank, I'll be removing Neons, Pleco and some of the Aquatic Plants. So then I will be slowly adjusting the tank to brackish water and adding my friends Archers in once the waters right.
Here are some rough ideas of what I want to accomplish.
Note: This is not all that will be in the tank, I'm just showing how I am thinking of doing the Dry land part of it.
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Question Time:
1. For the walls, I was thinking of using Clear Perspex. Attached with a lot of strong silicone. And possibly some small strips of perspex where the substrate will be (between tank wall and perspex) siliconed in for extra support. Will this be strong enough?
2. Filter/Waterfall. Would it work if I had the filters output going onto a slope? Kinda like the end of a hydroslide, made with bent perspex.
3. Which of the diagrams do you think would be best? Just the back wall, or the L Shaped garden.
4. In the raised land, I'm planning on having; a few small pieces of driftwood hanging over the ledge and some into the water, for the archer fish to shoot bugs of. Some small plants like grass, moss or some plants from a specific region if i choose to stick to a specific biotope. Would plants work, what would be the pros and cons and what plants would look good?
5. Also, I'm going to have a go at growing some mangroves. I don't know how successful it will be, but I may as well give it a go. I was thinking that if I tried growing them in the dry land, the roots might push out the perspex? Or I could try growing them fully submerged.
Well thats all the questions for now LOL! Oh and, Do you think this could work at all or am I just wasting my time? Any Suggestions would be great!
Thank you for taking the time to read ALL of this
