How to Build a Paludarium: Step by Step
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ก.ค. 2024
- In this episode, we discuss everything you need to know about building a paludarium. We cover how deep the water should be an how to build a paludarium waterfall or water feature, the best type of wood and rock to use to scape and the best animals to keep in a paludarium.
Tanner Serpa of SerpaDesigns and Dayyan Saylany of Reptiliatus discuss the ins and outs of building a paludarium for amphibians, reptiles, and other critters. They each share details of their experiences over the years in building paludariums, their successes and mistakes, as well as the details in building these types of enclosures - step by step. From types of enclosures you can build a paludarium in, filtration systems and equipment, hardscape materials and leaf litter, to managing waste from animals is discussed at length. Tanner and Dayyan also individually offer many different species of plants that can be used in semi-aquatic enclosures like these, from more common houseplants to even plants you can find outside.
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00:00 Coming Up - ZooMed + The Bio Dude
1:00 Round Table - Building a Paludarium
2:12 Welcome Tanner + Dayyan
3:38 Work-Life Balance in Producing Content
8:36 Experiences in Creating Paludarium
11:25 What is a Paludarium?
13:07 Enclosure Types for Paludariums
18:00 Sections in the Enclosure - Land and Water
21:38 Filtration - Equipment, Drilling Glass, and Waste
33:15 The BioDude Substrates + Bug Grub
34:16 Filtration Continued
35:18 Creating Water Features
43:50 Hardscape Material Recommendations
50:44 Leaf Litters and Botanicals in Water
54:24 Plants for Paludariums
1:02:00 Zoo Med Dragon Food
1:02:55 Paludarium Plants Continued
1:08:14 Aquatic Animal Possibilities for Paludariums
1:15:39 Species with Heated Tanks?
1:16:48 Vampire Crabs
1:18:24 Reptiles + Amphibian Species in Paludariums
1:23:27 Cohabitation in Paludariums
1:28:59 Maintenance Tips and Water Changes for Paludariums
1:36:20 Closing Thoughts
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Thanks again for having me on! It was such a pleasure discussing tips/ideas on creating/maintaining one of my favourite types of vivarium!
Thank you for taking the time to be on the show show, I really enjoyed this conversation!
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Love Tanner serpa design very informative !
Commenting for the algorithm! This definitely deserves to be a bigger channel!
Thank you! 🙏🏻
1:28:05 This was well said.
These animals should not be considered semi-disposable play things.
Most common problem I see with paludariums is their sizes. For many species, the water feature is much lower value real estate than the land. So when a considerable portion of a tank is dedicated to a water feature, the the availability of temp and moisture gradients, and hides can be dramatically reduced.
Beginning my turtle paludarium today. Great refresher on podcast and TH-cam.
Awesome 🙏🏻 good luck on the build!
Really enjoying the content. Going to sub to patroon this Friday to help support. Keep it up!
Thanks man! 🙏🏻 I appreciate the support!
Hell yeah
Enjoy!
So when is part 2 coming :)?
Currently working on one while this is playing
Good luck with the build!
Great discussion
To provide a counter argument to the cohabbing is for self only: I think all animal keeping is fairly gray/complicated, but I think keeping an animal by itself, while typical and very accepted, is also a very gray area that people should also consider more --- they wouldn't be alone in nature for most part (species dependent), they wouldn't having nothing else moving for the most part (outside of when human is interacting), nothing else providing stimuli. It, as far as I can tell, is based on a fairly simplified view of animal needs -- e.g. safety & food. IIRC a previous podcast guest called this possibly need for more biological feedback. Thus, I only have animals that can at least cohab with other of the same species (e.g. some types of frogs and dwarf geckos) and have cleanup crews for additional stimuli -- tho I don't really think cleanup crews provide that much stimuli. There's species I'd like, but aren't good in groups, so I don't keep them. So, I think it's good to push back on the idea that cohabiting it purely selfish (tho, keeping animals in some respect can be purely selfish -- lot of the money would ethically be better going to preserve environment if the intent was really about doing the most good for the animals).
Thanks for watching an episode, and very well said!
So your pushback is based on the notion that cohabiting provides sensory stimulation? Most likely that stimuli would result in minor elevation of stress hormones. Seems like clutching at straws.
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The same thing could be said for your response -- that it's clutching at straws to say that the only result would be stress.
Various animal -- leopard geckos, dwarf bearded dragons (ringings?), some frogs -- have social behaviour with members of their own species that have been observed in the wild and can have good interactions with members of other species. In the wild, there's a lot of stimuli and enrichment opportunities -- is it really a stretch to think that maybe putting them in a box where they get very little of that may not be the best for their overall well being? That they might benefit from having social structures with members of their own species and other moving, living beings to interact with and observe?
Continuous constant stress can bad, but occasional stress and conflict can be useful for overall well being in humans at least -- our understanding of reptiles is a lot more limited/basic - like we're still have the discussions whether they have feelings akin to our own emotional range. There's a lot of gray areas. For some keepers, exploring those less explored gray areas more and experimenting may improve overall well being. It's of course a risk -- but so is the risk that the current ways of keeping may not be best for overall wellbeing (e.g. risking keeping in an animal in way that they're not enjoying life). If you haven't listened to them, the discussion with wickened wicked reptiles and some podcasts may be worth it for you to watch to consider stuff like this.
I understand that Tanner was speaking very casually here but I am disappointed that he said pretty much any frog is suitable for a paludarium. Dendrobate frogs are NOT suitable for paludariums. Even tree frogs that can swim fairly well would get little to no benefit from a paludarium, so I would only consider keeping them in a paludarium if it was large enough to facilitate a water feature that did not come at the cost of terrestrial area.
My next project for my BRB.
Awesome! 👊🏼