My Three Tanks

[s1ren]

My 46g bowfront, housing 2 Taricha, m/f pair (one visible in this shot) - all plants are live.

My 20g-long, housing two Pleurodeles, also m/f pair:

And my 10g, housing a single newt - whether she's a CP or a paramesotriton is currently under discussion

I'm in the process of replacing all the plastic plants in the smaller two tanks with live - I just put pothos ivy cuttings in both, and divisions of an anubias plant from the large tank.

 

[michael]

love the tanks very well planted.

 

[gord]

Neat tanks. I like the live plants.,although I mix plastic ones in as well ,especially on the backs of the tanks. Question: Do you have any problems not having land for the taricha? Mine are 90% aquatic, but do like to crawl out of the water from time to time..especially at night.

Is that a tube coming out of the filter in P.Waltl tank? Does that diffuse the current?

Gord

 

[s1ren]

Sorry, Gord - I must have missed this post!

I kept a floating land area for my Tarichas for the first three years I had them, but they *never* used it, so I took it out. You can't tell from this picture, but just under that duckweed is some floating pothos that they can use to sit partway out of the water, and there's a tall piece of driftwood that just barely breaks the surface, in they want to get out...but they don't.

Yes, that tube is for diffusing the water. The end of it is stuffed into a feeding-dish full of gravel, to diffuse the flow. It works really well, too. I just wish I could hide that tube - I had plants around it for a while, but then I had to remove them to clean the filter, and it was just damaging the plants, so I took them off again.

 

[alex]

I agree with Gord, I like using a mix too. For me, the plastics are easy to maintain and don't require special lighting or CO2 diffusers or anything, and now they are so realistic that you can't tell the difference. I've also had newts that just don't seem interested in leaving the water, and don't seem to suffer at all when I remove the "docks". Great Tanks, Alex.

 

[hayden]

I've been using strictly live plants for about a year but back when I was using fake plants I always preferred silk plants to plastic ones. I think the newts preferred the silk plants as well as I never seen any legs laid on the plastic plants but the silk ones would get filled up.

Edit: Nice tanks, btw.