Mini Complete Paludarium with Waterfalls

If you remember I modified a Mini Complete Tank last year and turned it into a paludrium. MCT liked what I did so much with that setup, that they sent me one of their new paludarium tanks to see what I could do with it. I don't know about you, but I think it turned out great! What do you think? My only complaint really was the lack of flow. That can be easily adjusted though.
Check out the original build if you missed that one: • Mini Complete Waterfal...
The Mini Complete Paludarium Tank itself is only available for preorder at the moment. If it's something that interests you I'll leave a link below. Like I said in the video I did get the tank for free. However, I don't receive any compensation for sales or anything like that.
minicompletetank.com/products...
If you have any comments, suggestions or questions, leave them down in the comments! Also for additional content like this, photos of my terrariums, projects sneak peeks and more, follow me on Instagram @SerpaDesign.
/ serpadesign
#paludarium #minicompletetank #serpadesign

[@FlareSnare]

you should really make a mushroom terrarium. Grow the mycelium in a small cake and plant it into a terrarium for natural-looking mushrooms!

[@madelineharris6757]

I had mushrooms come up in my terrarium a few weeks ago and if you don't get in there to remove them fast enough (every day for about 4 days) they turn into a very sticky stubborn slime that was all over the glass and plants. They were pretty but cleanup wasn't worth it in my opinion, they only last for a day or two.

[@carpediem.9]

I'd LOVE to see that as well :)

[@cheesejam1373]

Mushrooms aren't like your common daisy, they rely off of dead things by creating a Web of roots around and in it and putting the nutrients the fungus didn't use into the soil and when it can the fungus will flower with a mushroom that dies shortly afterwards, you also have to be careful for 2 reasons, mushroom spores are impossible to be seen and might grow throughout your house and depending on the fungus it might have poisonous spores, also migh damage other terrariums

[@AQUAPROS]

Somebody shrink me so I can live in there...

[@SerpaDesign]

Fish Tank Mike!!! We can make that happen if you ever stop by. 😎

[@matthewrichardson7203]

Can one of you two make a darter aquarium pls

[@StormCaller5]

Same

[@kams912]

lol, you could always move your Ecuador

[@Jaybiiird]

Oh hey, didnt know you watch serpadesign as well XD

[@SerpaDesign]

Another mini complete paludarium in the books! I think this one turned out great! and I had a great time making it. What do you think? Also I apologize for my voice in the beginning of the video. I recorded that part early in the morning and my voice wasn't quite there at the time. Have a good weekend!

[@KasumiRose77]

I love this build. It's simple and allot less cluttered. It will look nice when it grows in also 💕

[@beasty909]

this was cool but i bet, you cant do a tank thats as small as a mason jar ;)

[@cerridwendragonart8167]

This build was great! I have an idea for a terrarium build that would be difficult but I think would look AMAZING If you could find/build a large hourglass and build a terrarium or something in the top compartment with sand trickling down that appears to be filling up the bottom part but is actually glued or something so it can't move. I think that would look awesome! Keep up the great work ^^

[@matthewwillson6515]

Love the nano builds, I have a challenge for you... try and scape and keep a "sea monkey's" they are cheap and have many different types of enclosures. I think it would be funny you turning something childish into something professional.

[@Baynstyy]

you could stock those with like 2 blue cherry shrimp or some sick neocardinia even some snails!!

[@madfishdiva]

I truly love these smaller water features they are perfect for office spaces which are often bland and without character, in particular and would be great conversation pieces.

[@mickster287]

Love this build !!!! I noticed myself getting into waterfall structures lately. Keep up the awesome work Tanner !!!

[@lynnbonica4342]

Looks fantastic, Tanner! 👍🍄🌿

[@Manks08]

Definately one of my favourite videos of yours, I really like how this little tank turned out. I like the idea of having a range of mini tanks on a shelf, each one built to represent a different climate/environment.

[@scottjarman8247]

Manks you like rs ? Nice emblem lol

[@vinokai]

Wonder how he'll make a winter climate mini tank...😂

[@mr_e_mc2]

I've been building out palladium's for almost 30 years now my biggest pet peeves and the most monumental fail i see in many enclosure builds on KZbin from aquarium to terrarium builds is plant choices and its something i see you nailing in this concept: choose plants that will go low and slow filling in the box over time, rather than going for large grown in immediate impact, so that it will not be overgrowing and requiring constant trimming to keep it in check, where one missed trimming could completely ruin the aesthetic. good job

[@peacefulaqua6221]

Very awesome little tank

[@poples5799]

when you added the cocofiber I was very sceptical, but when you added the wood, I was sold xD they look like some tree-roots growing out from a steep riverbank where the water's tides have washed the earth away from around the roots, which is pretty cool

[@AquaOwner]

Great Design, nice touch with the Waterfall Box!

[@BouncyKnight331]

I love the nanos! Definitely my favorite!

[@kotababy8008]

ive been LOVING my minicomplete aquarium and i am PUMPED to get my hands on this model

[@jeffyboye9739]

I didn't even notice the door was closed until you told me lol 😂

[@jasonlazore497]

Cherry shrimp could go into this setup. Looks really awesome

[@Commodus650]

Don’t know if I only finally noticed it but the soft quiet bgm is really nice while watching the build. Very soothing.

[@venkatbabu186]

DIY assembly products are the best. Also instructions for assembly. Also disassembly.

[@JohnJames.]

Looks great, the scape makes it look huge

[@drmrowczarz]

Excellent job!

[@mickster287]

Still waiting for you to get into the ant keeping hobby !!! You would be a god at it when it comes to designing them a home !!

[@nutcracker4694]

if this happens him and ants canada will need to collab somehow

[@salvi1398]

Nooo, it’s be better if kept mudskippers or crabs

[@jonbeech5158]

It's harder to ant keep in america cause you can't buy queens.

[@TehSlan]

@@nutcracker4694 He has done a "collab" with AntsCanada but it was sadly not ant related (at least, on his end).

[@WhoTheHellIsHarvy]

Another awesome build! (aren't they all)Inspiring as always and I am definitely going to build some waterfall set ups this year!

[@henrymontalvo384]

Why are these always so amazing

[@julz63]

You put so much care and attention into that project Tanner. It turned out absolutely amazing!! You used the perfect combination of everything to make a mini landscape. I absolutely love it 💚

[@jci8972]

I love this mini tank - I live in my camper during the summer months and have always wanted to bring along some of my plants from home. This size is perfect! I’ll be checking the link for sure. Thanks for the inspo!

[@roosta9779]

Absolutely beautiful! I love all the plants and moss and it looks like a tropical river!

[@ImperialKneazle]

It looks beautiful, you've done a really good job x

[@JeffreyApolloBeach]

Great build! Thanks for sharing the construction details

[@gagehunterjeffries7426]

It's always a great morning when I can wake up and watch a Serpadesign video. The videos seem to amaze me everytime.

[@SerpaDesign]

Honored to be a part of your morning routine!

[@bjrnthebigone]

7:36 For a german like me your pronunciation sounds very funny ; ) Very cool build!

[@SerpaDesign]

😂 Trying my best!

[@lindabevier-vian7101]

,All your little water scapes make me think they would be great Fairy gardens 😁 I only have use of one hand, but I might try to make something like this as a Fairy garden.💞🎎

[@jeremycompton9322]

I really love your channel. The amount of work you put into making this sort of living art accessible to everyone is quite impressive. It's also a great way to decompress after a bad day, watching a couple episodes. Thank you for that.

[@Evelien2301]

Makes me think of a underground waterfall between the roots af a tree... love it!!!

[@oliviergorzela4185]

WOW and this is art. Even though it's small it's my favourite built of yours. Just AMAZING

[@AtariTheAquarist]

Tanner your patience and attention to detail is unmatched. Always a beautiful finished product. Hope for your continued success 🔥🔥🔥💯💪🏾

[@annebrunner3649]

Thank you Tanner. You always inspire me.

[@valeriagarcia7376]

i wish i could just shrink myself and live in it 🥺 i aspire to be as good as you, keep up the great work!! 💚

[@Viper0hr]

I watched the last video with the original mini recently and wanted to buy one for my first try at a paludarium and saw they were releasing this new tank. I held out on my purchase, then saw your recent YT post with the sneak peak for this video. As always an amazing piece! Pulled the trigger on a pre order for one and am thinking of designs for it. I live in Northern Florida and am going to hunt around for some smaller local stuff to include in mine (stones and small driftwood). Thanks for all the great videos!

[@azura4582]

Ive been watching all your paludarium/aquarium/terrarium building videos because I decided ill be wanted to get some Starry Night reed frogs in the next year or two and want ideas on how to build my tank! They will be in an 18 x 18 x 24(30 gallon) vivarium with water on the bottom (hopefully planted) and a slate wall with moss on the back. I hope to have lots of plants for them to climb on and lots of driftwood leading out of the water for easy entrance and exit, because they are semi-aquatic and arboreal!! I'm getting lots of great idea from your videos and they are very instructional as to how to go about building something like this. So thank you for what you do! Also a funny sidenote: I love listening to you building things, so I usually have your videos playing while I animate or play minecraft ahaha

[@rondalavon7584]

I think this might be my favorite one! Great job!

[@vampgaia]

That looks amazing! Once again, you've blown my mind with your abilities.

[@Lastman737]

Sweet little setup! Keep the vids coming my dude!

[@bitzbox]

It looks absolutely beautiful, great work!

[@davefriesen6215]

Wow, beautiful as usual. Thanks for the inspiration.

[@rickyabdullah4758]

Amazing mini paludarium

[@kylepelletier6590]

Just seeing the slate work by itself man looks amazing. Really shows how much work you must have put into laying each stone

[@EnchantedwithPoodles]

Beautiful, well done.

[@johnlogan1022]

Really, really like this mini paludarium! I'm very tempted to give it a try !

[@mandyminshull2351]

Looks fantastic

[@brandonsaquariumsandterrar8985]

Now your other nano palidarium has a friend!!!!

[@hanzifaction]

Beautiful tank!

[@alanaescalante7557]

Wow... now this is scaling done RIGHT! I clicked on this video thinking it was one of your full sized paladariums based on the picture! Nope! 👏👏👏

[@logankimball8036]

I adore this scape! Im going to use this as inspiration for my five gallon paludarium for my Eurycea cirrigera

[@icantthinkofagoodname1838]

You really are truly an artist Tanner. This is incredible!

[@elisa8834]

Hey Tanner ! I have been following your channel and loving your builds for quite a time now, but I felt like writing a comment on this one because I have never been that amazed by anything you (or anyone) have done ! I just think that it looks fantastically incredible ! Keep on your amazing work and thank you for providing us these high-quality videos !

[@KalemsFishtanks]

Just stunning great video!

[@alexblanco3697]

This is art,Just Beautiful

[@nneichan9353]

Your vids are always so peaceful and beautiful. So creative!

[@michelethirteenknots]

I really like this build! Well done!

[@drmscaper5878]

Dude, what a nice work! Well made

[@Ravishrex1]

Looks awesome you could house some glass shrimp in there with minimal effort.

[@heathervestal2382]

That is so beautiful! You are a creative genius. If someone wanted to add aquatic life to it, pond snails would be perfect as long as you didn't overfeed the tank and cause the population to explode. I would love to have that on my desk at work. I am a nature freak and this would be so calming.

[@yannikmerten4619]

It‘s amazing how you can make such a small space so beautiful!! btw i‘m from Germany and the American pronounciation of Süßwassertang is so funny to me :D

[@tropicalterrarium1742]

I have a waterfall in my paludarium. They do a lot more than you would think. A waterfall adds air, co2 (small bits), oxygen, creates water movement, to the water. It also is like a little moister maker for your plants above the waterline, also fanning them with more air. Waterfalls are like your plant and animals steroids.

[@thebelovedtree]

It's stunning!

[@edgufler1122]

You have quite the talent for building these Paludariums. Love watching your videos

[@yamaharacecrew8440]

I'm german and the way you pronounced Süßwasser made me laugh a bit 😅

[@VanEssa-kr9ew]

Es war aber gar nicht mal so schlimm 😉

[@bisamania]

Same

[@jff1813]

Maybe the way you would pronounce a word like "vivarium" might make him laugh too. 😄

[@bucephalandra.godzilla]

Literally in love with the environments you create!!!! I'm working on a 561 gallon aquarium for corydoras if you're ever in Tennessee and want to work on a different type of thing lol. But in all seriousness, your videos are so calming, soothing, and beautiful it's a great way to relax when a project I'm working on gets the better of me. It helps put it into perspective too. Got my mom into watching your videos too and she absolutely loves coming home from a shift at the hospital and just watching the intricacies of your work

[@justynbecker9062]

I love this I would so buy it but I would need all the stuff that you put into it moss, plants, rocks, etc. You do amazing work Tanner!

[@delacruzanselmoabel4998]

I always love your nano builds

[@rhall939]

That is one of your best builds!

[@Jetstoanywhere]

awesome work man! Love your videos!

[@twistysunshine]

That hardscape is incredible. Looks like a tiny little cliff face. You'd never know how the underneath originally just looked like foam and glue haha

[@nittygritty7034]

Beautiful!

[@lynnern57]

So beautiful!

[@KodiakDunne]

its always so interesting to watch your videos

[@BrooklandsHoneyBees]

Just started watching your videos man and loving them! Thanks very much :)

[@bunnyhop1784]

Tanner, loved this tank. Very peaceful look. God bless brother, Janet🐢🐍🦎🦕🐊🐟

[@benjidavis1662]

Oh Heavens. This is way cool. I gotta get me one of these!!!! Love this video!!!

[@Rakku]

Your pronounciation of süßwassertang made me giggle (Im german). It was actually half bad but definetly entertaining with your accent. The project is gorgeous.

[@utakcaline444]

trop mignon, ça donne envie de faire pareil! bravo Tanner!

[@bassemmajbour5738]

Nice setup 👍❤👍

[@alabasterkros]

This is really awesome! ✌

[@colehecker8418]

Amazing as always! 👍🏻

[@aquamoment]

this is a very good start for 2020!!!

[@iziizo6202]

Wow, beautiful.

[@Gmannnnnn]

I've been looking to make something like this for the past 2 month thanks for the inspiration!

[@JimMeeker]

Those slate chips look awesome when you stack them like that.

[@thibaultdrake9255]

WoW. This one is just so cool

[@mtngypsy111]

Killed it as usual!!!

[@AfterAllWeAreHuman]

Simply incredible...

[@hobbyscape4433]

Another awesome build. I agree though, it could use a bit more flow, but a beautiful setup nonetheless. Thanks for sharing

[@CullenKawano]

super awesome!!! I have to do a lot more work to mines but even out of the box it is an awesome kit =) I am going to use some of your techniques as well as upgrade the pump...

[@wimhelsen010]

looks so cool

[@Rehan90]

Insane work again Tanner. Loved it! When will you make a closed terrarium with a waterfall? Super excited for that! :)

[@Bounc3101]

Rehan Ahmed he could definitely do it! I’m pretty sure inductive coupling could be used to transfer power from a base to inside the glass.

[@SerpaDesign]

Idk when but I definitely will!

[@Glinui]

that is so amazing and great, makes me wish I had the materials, skills, patience, plants, knowledge, money,.... etc to actually do this myself :')

[@jacobisrael661]

I’m trying to make a mini paludarium for some dart frog tadpole and this is a nice scape idea. Gonna use a bigger tank but love the concept

[@krismaidment8172]

You can tell that so much work goes into these videos man, from the sourcing of the materials to the great shots and voice-over. Keep doing what you're doing , would be cool to see you attempt a carnivorous swamp/ bog kind of thing :)

[@alfiespooner5627]

i lovee these mini builds, so much omg

[@mattnewbern4933]

I just wanted to say I absolutely love your videos and tutorials. You inspired me to start a very large 95 gallon paludarium build with my wife and kids. So far I just need to source some large cork bark rounds for the background and then we can start building. As a side note I would love to see an update on the rubber duckies. I'm getting a culture to put in my paludarium and am trying to find some good information on care and feeding.

[@moigjoid260]

Hahaha I couldn't even see the front door! That's some good acrylic