Filling a tank obly halfway?

GHOSTLY · Feb 27, 2022

So ill be moving out soon. They don't allow fish tanks but they don't care for half filled fish tanks so that got me curious. Would a half filled tank for fw be harder to care for? Would nutrients and stuff be harder to manage?

blaxsun · Feb 27, 2022

I'd probably get clarification on "half-filled" fish tanks. To me, that reads terrarium, ie: reptiles.

JachPot · Feb 27, 2022

blaxsun said:
I'd probably get clarification on "half-filled" fish tanks. To me, that reads terrarium, ie: reptiles.

Kind of sounds like turtles? Which turtles are disgusting and really stink, so that's wild to me lol

Vinman · Feb 27, 2022

Maybe do a mangrove tank half full of water with the rock pile that extends up past the water line sort of a lagoon type

GHOSTLY · Feb 28, 2022

Vinman said:
Maybe do a mangrove tank half full of water with the rock pile that extends up past the water line sort of a lagoon type

Thing is its fresh water

GHOSTLY · Feb 28, 2022

Its supposed to be like an Amazon river tank but is that possible?

afrokobe · Feb 28, 2022

Id imagine they are thinking of paludarium. something like this

mdb_talon · Feb 28, 2022

There is little practical difference other than water volume and limiting the equipment you can use. A hob for example likely will not work without modification and even then would be a lot of splashing even if it did work. A canister though would likely work fine though may need to modify a bit of the plumbing.

Overall I dont think it will be harder to manage nutrients (again other than the fact you have half the water volume of it being full)

GHOSTLY · Feb 28, 2022

afrokobe said:
Id imagine they are thinking of paludarium. something like this

Exactly like this. Do yoy know how to get it to look like that? How do they hold up the walls?

SlugSnorter · Feb 28, 2022

GHOSTLY said:
Exactly like this. Do yoy know how to get it to look like that? How do they hold up the walls?

thats a whole rabbit hole. look up paladarium building videos

GHOSTLY · Feb 28, 2022

SlugSnorter said:
thats a whole rabbit hole. look up paladarium building videos

Would an under gravel work for those?

afrokobe · Feb 28, 2022

GHOSTLY said:
Exactly like this. Do yoy know how to get it to look like that? How do they hold up the walls?

SlugSnorter said:
thats a whole rabbit hole. look up paladarium building videos

lol yea thats whole another rabbit hole. It takes a bit more planning. Serpa on youtube has built a few:

SlugSnorter · Feb 28, 2022

GHOSTLY said:
Would an under gravel work for those?

theres no water under those rocks. just where you see water, so likely no.

TLDR: most setup walls to separate water and substrate

afrokobe · Feb 28, 2022

I tried to build a bowl paludarium a while ago. Definitely did not plan out the build... had some dead spots where the water would run.

Sharkbait19 · Feb 28, 2022

Mangroves can live in freshwater (or at least particularly species).
They sell filters designed for pauladariums, or you can diy. There are some pretty cool pauladarium setups out there.
Technically fish stocking is the same, you just have to take reduced gallonage into account.
Very good for amphibians or semi aquatic reptiles, as well as fish.
In a brackish setup you can do mudskippers.
You could even do a tidepoostyle marine setup (though this would be very difficult).

SlugSnorter · Mar 1, 2022

Sharkbait19 said:
Mangroves can live in freshwater (or at least particularly species).
They sell filters designed for pauladariums, or you can diy. There are some pretty cool pauladarium setups out there.
Technically fish stocking is the same, you just have to take reduced gallonage into account.
Very good for amphibians or semi aquatic reptiles, as well as fish.
In a brackish setup you can do mudskippers.
You could even do a tidepoostyle marine setup (though this would be very difficult).

it really depends on species and how you setup the land, reptile and amphibian care is very different than fish care. I love both though, planning on setting up a rainforest paladarium (will never, ever spell this right lol) with poison dart frogs at some point.

Vinman · Mar 1, 2022

GHOSTLY said:
Thing is its fresh water

They grow in freshwater also

Sharkbait19 · Mar 1, 2022

SlugSnorter said:
it really depends on species and how you setup the land, reptile and amphibian care is very different than fish care. I love both though, planning on setting up a rainforest paladarium (will never, ever spell this right lol) with poison dart frogs at some point.

True point - it would have to be setup with a species in mind.
Man I’d love some dart frogs…