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karen
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Ravenous-
1. My lid uses a regular fluorescent light for the live plants. You can get them at pet stores, but I think you can get them cheaper at places like Walmart, Target etc. There are some good, hearty live plants that you can get that don't require tons of care or a green thumb.
2. For gravel, use a size that is too large for the newts to swallow. My gravel is like large pea or lima bean size. Some here prefer fine sand as an alternate. Still others use a bare bottom, but I like the look of gravel.
3. I haven't had a problem with my duetto 50 at all but there are plenty of good filters out there. I would just definitely get one that has an adjustable output. (My first filter, a fluval, was very good but fidn't have an adjustable output and my newts hated the current it produced.
4. I made an island from 2 pieces of acrylic (or plexiglass)....one was cut to a rectangular size of about 4 inches long by 3 inches wide by 1/2 inch high ....the other piece was a 5 inch long solid cylinder. I glued them together (silicon glue). For the top I glues a large plastic rock and covered the rock with java moss. The newts love it. I'm trying to enclose a pic.
(Message edited by jennewt on September 19, 2006)
1. My lid uses a regular fluorescent light for the live plants. You can get them at pet stores, but I think you can get them cheaper at places like Walmart, Target etc. There are some good, hearty live plants that you can get that don't require tons of care or a green thumb.
2. For gravel, use a size that is too large for the newts to swallow. My gravel is like large pea or lima bean size. Some here prefer fine sand as an alternate. Still others use a bare bottom, but I like the look of gravel.
3. I haven't had a problem with my duetto 50 at all but there are plenty of good filters out there. I would just definitely get one that has an adjustable output. (My first filter, a fluval, was very good but fidn't have an adjustable output and my newts hated the current it produced.
4. I made an island from 2 pieces of acrylic (or plexiglass)....one was cut to a rectangular size of about 4 inches long by 3 inches wide by 1/2 inch high ....the other piece was a 5 inch long solid cylinder. I glued them together (silicon glue). For the top I glues a large plastic rock and covered the rock with java moss. The newts love it. I'm trying to enclose a pic.
(Message edited by jennewt on September 19, 2006)