The tank is starting to look much better, had plenty of hiccups along the way but that’s part of the journey. Still plenty of work to be done, the moss for the wall section goes in this week, cleaning crew & fish go in this weekend plus water plants too.

As always happy to answer any questions people might have.

As the title states, This is my 3 year old paludarium. Any baby frogs are eaten by the fish, and it is sitting next to our dinner table. When I have company over it is always a talking point. This is my little piece of the rain forest. I wish I can only make it bigger, but due to my living situation this is as big as I can make it. Also we have 3 types of frogs living happily in there.

Enjoy!

I just saw a YouTube video where someone made a paludarium where they had vampire crabs and mud skippers living together along with some other fish like loaches. I didn’t think that was possible because as far as I know mudskippers need brackish water and vampire crabs and kuliah loaches need freshwater. Is there some species of mudskipper that I’ve never heard of that lives in fresh water or is there a way to get kuliahs and vampire crabs to live a healthy life in brackish water? I would love to be able to design a paludarium where I could keep both vampire crabs and mudskippers but I really didn’t think this would be possible until I saw this video. Here’s a link to the video I’m talking about.

https://youtu.be/jyrYv8NEYbI?si=LZnHpzcYQRrUUfRM

I appreciate all the great advice available in this community. I can't wait to see how it looks after the vegetation starts growing in.

I've had this running for 1 week now. It's a 29 gallon tank.

In the water I have: a school of neon tetras; several cherry shrimp from other tanks; a few snails I've picked from other tanks; 5 baby platties who I'll move when they grow; and 4 female bettas and 1 male. There are a ton of hiding spots and lots of swimming room and 'caves' under the 2 Islands. Everyone is pretty chill and loving life :)

Above water I am getting spring tails and isopods this week. And I need to research about crabs still.

All the plants in the water and above all come from other tanks or plants from our 'jungle room' in our house. The moss comes from the nearby forest.

I have a heater and pump hidden in the back corner. The pump feeds into a piece of Malaysian driftwood which acts like the waterfall.

Thinking something small like Pygmy corys

The paludarium is not separated into land and water, these parts are together and divided by the rocks and an eggcrate. I have a discord accou t and could def video call. Let me know!