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I was just wondering how to feed FF and crickets in a viv thats mostly water.

Thanks.

In my paludariums, the water portion has small tropical fish, which also enjoy the fruit flies and crickets that fall in. Ordinarily, I just dump the food right on the land portion. The frogs get most of it. In others, with just small or limited waterways, I don't worry about it. They are mostly filled with smooth rock or pebbles that the frogs can hop around an hunt on to snag stuff that falls in. It depends upon your design.
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Patty
Pahsimeroi, Idaho

4 D. auratus blue
5 D. galactonotus pumpkin orange splash back
5 D. imitator
6 D. leucomelas
4 D. pumilio Bastimentos
4 D. fantasticus
4 P. terribilis
4 D. reticulatus
4 D. castaneoticus

Thanks. May i ask how you created the land portion on paludarium? A sloping substrate probably isnt the bet method for my design. Im not all that crazy on the false bottom look aswell..

I used a 135 gallon fish tank. I made the aquarium design and had glass cut to fit and silicone in to divide the different parts of the aquarium (main pool, river run, lagoon, etc. and to divide the aquarium section from the land section. Then I made sure it was water tight. I sloped the land section, but it could be flat. It doesn't have a false bottom, only a simple drainage of coarse rock and gravel covered with a layer of perforated plastic garden weed blocker with the substrate on top of that. I have a kind of drill hole in one corner of each of the two land sections from which I can siphon the excess water from the sump area with an aquarium air hose, much like siphoning gas from a car tank. The siphoning can just be started by attaching a 30cc cannula injection syringe (from a veterinary supply.) It's really low tech, but takes some attention. I water house plants with the drainage water.

On this paludarium, I put in two water falls, dividing the water between the lagoon section and the main pool. The pump is at the far left end and goes up through the tubing that is hidden by plants. The tubing by the way, also colonizes with introduced denitrifying bacteria and acts as a secondary filter for the aquarium.

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Patty
Pahsimeroi, Idaho

4 D. auratus blue
5 D. galactonotus pumpkin orange splash back
5 D. imitator
6 D. leucomelas
4 D. pumilio Bastimentos
4 D. fantasticus
4 P. terribilis
4 D. reticulatus
4 D. castaneoticus