Stream Biotope Paludarium

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Tank rebuild of a prior habitat housing Black Chinned Red Salamanders. The tank was a total do over unfortunately due to a nasty ongoing case of Cyanobacteria and leaks into the terrestrial portion. The new build focuses on moving water and mimics a stream bank. Materials used were mainly slate, spider wood, other random drift woods, gravel, sand, ferns, various mosses and snakeskin liverworts. Animals and aquatic microfauna will be re-introduced at some point in the near future. Hope you enjoy!
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1 дек 2023

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@pixel6576 7 месяцев назад

Clicked as fast as i could as soon as i saw the word biotope. Love you man

@slitheringsalamanderscapes6887 7 месяцев назад

Thank you!

@FatherFish 7 месяцев назад

Excellent structure. Very artistic and a wonderful habitat for salamanders. A rich substrate would reduce the potential for cyano and provide adequate nutrients for plants as well as a source of natural deterioration for waste.

@slitheringsalamanderscapes6887 7 месяцев назад

Thank you! In the previous tank, I used Seachem Flourite and Fluval stratum. Had lots of good plant growth and religiously did water changes, but the cyano kept coming back. Water parameters were good. I’ll be adding some plants that can root down and additionally will help with filtration

@dshobe720 7 месяцев назад

@slitheringsalamanderscapes6887 wow father fish commented that's great for you! I was wondering if he meant a dirt base with a sand cap for things to mellow out? Best thing I ever did for my small volume aquarium was hornwort and fully aquatic plants. Not that hornwort is typical for this biotype but neither is sphagnum moss. My water issues with algae cleared very quickly.

@dmc3489 7 месяцев назад

Great to see you post again! Love your content and the fact that you show it all - failures and successes! We have all been there. Hope you and the family are doing well.

@slitheringsalamanderscapes6887 7 месяцев назад

Thanks so much!

@wizzyforeverr 7 месяцев назад

Great video man excellent job scaping

@slitheringsalamanderscapes6887 7 месяцев назад

Much appreciated!

@soulmilk7533 7 месяцев назад

beautiful scape my friend, this is the first video ive found of you and i immediately fell in love. good luck on growing your channel!

@slitheringsalamanderscapes6887 7 месяцев назад

Much appreciated, thank you!

@abbotmoffat 7 месяцев назад

Great build, as always... nice work, man.

@slitheringsalamanderscapes6887 7 месяцев назад

Thank you!

@kdr1048 7 месяцев назад

Very Natural, looks amazing great job! 👍🏻

@slitheringsalamanderscapes6887 7 месяцев назад

Thank you!

@cooliipie 7 месяцев назад

Relaxing build

@slitheringsalamanderscapes6887 7 месяцев назад

Thanks!

@slitheringsalamanderscapes6887 7 месяцев назад

Thanks! I noticed that. I may remove it if I find another more similarly colored piece of wood. Appreciate you watching!

@michaelsullivan2662 7 месяцев назад

Your setup is extremely impressive! do you have all of the surface area around the powerhead covered? I am not sure how fast your salamanders can swim since there is a possibility that slow moving salamanders could get sucked into the powerhead. If your salamanders move slowly I would suggest covering the surface area around the intake of the powerhead with a small & round piece of cork-bark or as an alternative tying a sponge around it.

@slitheringsalamanderscapes6887 7 месяцев назад

Thank you! It’s mostly covered and actually not that powerful. The salamanders are all fairly large at this point, so fortunately not really a concern. When they are really small, I will typically cover filter intakes or any other strainer / power head with window screen mesh for safety

@EditsAndHighlights 7 месяцев назад

I love this channel but can we have an update on the Eastern Newts?

@slitheringsalamanderscapes6887 7 месяцев назад

I will get around to it!

@user-ec8vm9lt4t 7 месяцев назад

家に欲しい😍

@dappledlight8073 7 месяцев назад

Great video! I always love getting more caudate content! I'm curious how you determine the land:water ratio for your builds? I would have thought that for a black chinned you'd want more land area than this. Do you keep them more aquatic than typical? Do they live in this enclosure all year? Sorry for the care questions!

@slitheringsalamanderscapes6887 7 месяцев назад

All good. Over the past several years I’ve seen that they spend a very significant amount of time within the water feature. One of the 3 may be netonic as that one still is in larval form for the past several years. I may add some more rock outcrops and build up more terrestrial area in the future. It’s really just based off of what I observe in how they use the enclosure.

@theoneandonlymrme 7 месяцев назад

Hello! Great video! I built a large 75 gal paludarium for my two tiger salamanders about two months ago. Unfortunately, one recently past away from wedging itself underneath a rock and drowned. Because of that I decided to turn it into a terrarium. Now that there’s only one tiger salamander in such a big tank it feels a bit empty. What are some different species I can put in the tank with him? I was thinking another tiger salamander and a spotted salamander. I do have an extra tank in the garage I can use if one of the salamanders are aggressive or aren’t eating. Thanks!

@slitheringsalamanderscapes6887 7 месяцев назад

Thanks and sorry to hear about the salamander. I would only put same species in - so same sub-species of Tiger salamander. Just a preference of mine

@leonardotheuseless4188 7 месяцев назад

Erythromicin kills cyanobacteria very effectively. Any fish antibiotic works good in general.

@leonardotheuseless4188 7 месяцев назад

Nice setup btw

@paulb.982 7 месяцев назад

I LOVE your content! Great vid, as always. If I may: I am not a big fan of the central wood stick. The colour of the wood is much different from the other sticks and I am a bit afraid it might break the water flow a bit too much? Anyway, the new tank looks gorgeous (as was the previous one)!

@DustinVo-tw4xz Месяц назад

How did you get northern red salamander I really want one too but the are illegal to get now😢😢😢

@gardenheiress1990 7 месяцев назад

Wonder what type of gravel that gray gravel was. I’ve been hunting for some that size but can’t find it.

@slitheringsalamanderscapes6887 7 месяцев назад

Aqua life Black Diamond Aquarium Substrate

@nikhilyadav-pl1tb 7 месяцев назад

Did you try chemiclean to remove cyanobacteria 🤔

@slitheringsalamanderscapes6887 7 месяцев назад

I’ve used blue green stain remover, which at first worked (no effect on any animals), but then it just seemed to not do anything. Smaller habitats like this vs larger ones I work with seem to be more prone to these outbreaks