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#1 nosferatu
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Very cool, especially the night shot. :)

Are those plants at the top bromeliads? What's the substrate and how are you watering them at that angle?

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Oh, yeah... since I hadn't posted the moonlight shot, here it is :)  The majority of the plants are bromeliads and tellandasias, both of which are epiphytic so you don't have to put them in soil. It's a false bottom tank, the fish can actually swim underneath the entirety of the land mass. Think of as though it's on stilts. There is a false bottom with a layer of pebbles for drainage, soil and coconut husk. Watering the plants is via mister (will probably buy an auto-misting system when I'm no longer broke from this! :) )
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The frogs aren't that hard to keep once you get an appropriate environment set up for them. They need a lot of vertical space. The hard part is that they only eat live insects. As long as you have an easy source of crickets they aren't hard to keep though. The tank is deceptively expensive and ended up costing a lot more than I had anticipated. Part of it was that I ended up having to buy a lot of hardware for the construction portions though. If you already had a lot of the equipment that would definitely have helped. That being said, the tank+stand was about $250, the lights $180 (gotta be good, strong lights because the tank is so tall if you want the plants to grow and be healthy), the frogs themselves are about $30-$40 each, there's probably about $100 in plants, etc. Not to mention the fact that pretty much all my free time for the past 2 weeks has gone towards construction. It's no small feat. Honestly, technical skills aren't all that important. As a matter of fact, having no painting skills would be beneficial because disorganized is a more natural look. The trick to real looking rocks is really just a dry brush technique which is shockingly easy. My artistic skills are limited at best and I think the tree and rocks turned out incredible.
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Just finished building this bad boy and thought I would share it with a website not at all related to Vivarium construction as that group of people tends to be a bit jaded on new builds. This is a 47 gallon column shaped tank (about 30" tall) converted into a paludarium (fish tank + terrarium with full interplay between them). The fish tank portion is about 12g. I built the tree buttress and rocks from scratch.

Full tank shot

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Tank shot with HDR effect just for fun

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It will house these little guys as well as some fish:

Frogs

If you're curious how it's all built, my full construction thread is here:http://www.dendroboard.com/forum/members-frogs-vivariums/66887-47-column-paludarium-technique-build-thread.htmlthough I figured you guys would just want to see the final product.

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#4 nosferatu
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I would guess the slow reply has more to do with the Thanksgiving holidays than anything else.
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#5 nosferatu
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Tossin me into the mix.

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It's funny because of the guy's vocabulary. It sounds just like someone's dad trying to be cool and use the words the "kids these days" use. It couldn't be any more awkward.
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#7 nosferatu
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Gonna have to go with Psychonauts. I bought that game over XBL because I'd heard so much about it and because I'd loved the old Lucasarts games. Psychonauts really didn't do it for me at all.
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#8 nosferatu
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(Spoilers Obviously)

Did anyone continually get the vibe that Theresa is a little more malicious than she lets on. This was particularly evident at the end when, as soon as the Spire is in her hands, she tells you to leave very aggressively. There wer other moments throughout the game that made me question her motives, but that one in particular really sticks. I think it'd be a pretty safe assumption that she will be returning as an enemy in some form.

Also, who really didn't choose the Love ending? I couldn't have cared less about my family, but my dog? I had to have my dog. Families and money are very easy to replace in this game; the dog is impossible to replace.

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#9 nosferatu
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Even I'm beginning to get a serious distaste for Activision and that's hard to earn.
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#10 nosferatu
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I believe it comes from using a lot of magic.