When I built Paludarium 1.0, I was positive on having solved the
water poisoning by not using potting soil anywhere in the
landmass. As it turns out, the plants on land rot away leaves
and build their own soil inside. Very nice for the plants, not
so nice for the fish inside. since the water streams through the
soil, it picks up a lot of chemicals that aren’t very healthy
for the fish in the aquatic part. For the reason staed above I
decided to build Paludarium 2.0 with two completely separated
water households: One aquatic and one for the landmass. When I
started to think up Paludarium 1.0 way back in 2005, I did not
want to add this very complexity (I was thinking about a
brackish aquatic part at the time). As it turns out, even
without a brackish aquatic part, I still need separated water
households. In this blogpost I’ll sketch the first global design
on these separated water households. The basic requirements for
the separated water households are pretty basic, and these
determine the design that I’ll ma