u/SchlongSmith

I’m making a paludarium, and am largely going to be using sponge to help form the land area. (There will be some substrate for the crabs and plants, but I am going to be using a lot of sponge for this. Unfortunately, it seems foam is extremely pricey for the amount I need, I want an 8 inch tall water area for a hexagonal tank with a diameter of 30 inches. It looks like it’s going to run me almost $120 alone for just that land area if I bought from Amazon?

Is there a cheaper way to do this? Or am I gonna be forced to splurge here?

On an unrelated note, has anyone used the skull waterfall from zoo med for their crabs? Is it safe? I wanna incorporate it in my tank because I think a pirate theme would be dope

I’m planning on making a vampire crab paludarium in the future, in particular I’m hoping to get gray star vampire crabs. I want to make it a paludarium and add fish if possible.

The species I want most are clown killifish, they’re among my favorite nano fish out there. Other ones I’d be interested in are chili rasboras, perhaps a true freshwater bumblebee goby, super blue kerri tetras, and other ones like that. Horned nerite snails are cool too, but I doubt the crabs would leave them alone.

Any of the fish I mentioned work? In particular the killifish and goby interest me the most.

I haven’t paid much attention to this community since then. Kinda saw it as the one last big mod we had before the fandom finally sizzled and died. Kinda poetic BF died in that mod.

Has there been anything else that big since then? A new mainstream mod? A revival of any of the classics?

I want a snake that can live in a 40 gallon as an adult, that’s chill with handling, and won’t go on hunger strikes. I think the two best options I have are a KSB or African house snake. A rubber boa would be cool if they bred those, but they’re hard to find.

Are either good options? What would you say?

I remember my local exotics store used to stock them all the time, and they were great. They’re easy to put in and pull out, unlike the bulbs, where you can sometimes break the holder if you screwed a bulb in too well. They use less wattage. And they seemed to last a lot longer than the average bulb.

Is there a reason I’m not seeing them as much anymore? Or is it just a coincidence?