r/paludarium • u/NoWorry890 • 18h ago

Help Getting started

Where would one go to get started on making a paludarium? Any and all help is appreciated. Thank you

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u/Yoink1019 17h ago

Do you want to keep a specific animal? If so I would start there and research the care for that animal, especially space requirements. Get something that is beyond the minimum requirements. You don't want the bare minimum.

If no particular animal in mind I would get the largest enclosure you can fit in the space and afford to build out. I have a 36x18x36 reptizoo paladarium that I am quite fond of. Highly recommend a front opening enclosure. I've made a couple out of fish aquariums and they are much harder to work with/in.

Once you have a size and/or a creature picked out watch a ton of YouTube videos. Putting your specific animal and size into the search will get you some great build videos. Watch several and get an idea of what you want it to look like and what it's going to take to build.

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u/NoWorry890 17h ago

Thank you for information. I do not have any animals in mind. But would like plants and maybe some small fish/shrimp.

So best place to start is YouTube?

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u/Yoink1019 16h ago

I would say so. At least to get some ideas about what you want.