Penn-Plax AquaTerrium Planting Tank – Hydroponic Aquarium with Integrated Filter System for Live Plants and Fish – 1.85 Gallons

Part of the rock scape was broken, which I repaired, the pump lasted 2 hours before stopping, luckily I had a spare pump from a previous tank. Wish I had read the reviews as mist said it came broken and the pump quickly failed. I would have sent it back had I not already bought the plants. But now it's repaired and the pump replaced it looks good

Water pump not working

Pump was ineffective

Looks nice, yet it arrived broken. Bought for Christmas for my son, asked for it to be replaced and they refused.

Box arrived open. Middle part of resin rock formaiton missing.

Faulty

The design is great, but made cheaply. Looks the part, but has flaws. The biggest flaw was the pump failing within the first hour of operation. The back section which houses the pump broke when i filled it up with water. Cheaply glued. The light is cheap and doesn’t fit into the clip properly. I wouldn’t recommend this product as I found it was overpriced. Another thing is that I had to buy two travel adapters which cost me $20.

Estaría muy bonito pero viene toda la piedra rota, por lo que no es funcional, lo tuve que pegar yo, pues el proveedor no acepta cambios.

Sieht nur auf den ersten Blick gut aus! Undurchdachtes System: Zum Reinigen des Filters muss die Hälfte der Stein-Rückwand inklusive deren Pflanzen abgenommen werden, um an die Kammer zu kommen, in der der Filter ist. Wer kleine Hände hat, schafft es dann vielleicht gerade noch so, im schmalen und fest verklebten Unterteil etwas zu reinigen. Danach muss der Filter und der Förderschlauch wieder rein gefummelt werden. Das macht keine Freude. Dadurch, dass das ganze System so fummelig ist, ist es absolut ungeeignet für Lebewesen. Im unteren festgeklebten Teil der Stein-Rückwand sind Aussparungen, damit der Filter seine Arbeit erledigen kann. Die Aussparungen sind aber so groß, dass Garnelen und Schnecken durch passen und dann im Filter verenden. Entweder man füllt so viel Kies ein, dass die Löcher verdeckt werden oder muss zusätzlich mit Schwämmchen arbeiten. Links und rechts am unteren festgeklebten Teil der Stein-Rückwand ist kein Fingerbreit Platz zur Aquariumscheibe. Wer also kalkhaltiges Wasser benutzt, wird dort üble Kalk-Ränder bekommen, an die man nicht mehr weg bekommt. Und in diesen engen Zwischenräumen bleibt wahrscheinlich das ein oder andere Lebewesen stecken und kommt nicht mehr von alleine raus. Das Aqua Terrarium sieht auf den ersten Blick gut aus, aber das war’s auch schon. Alles weitere kostet einem nur Zeit und Nerven und man wird zusätzlich noch was investieren müssen - für all die kleinen aber doch notwendigen Optimierungen am System. Wäre die untere Stein-Rückwand nicht fest verklebt, könnte man wenigstens das Becken verwenden. Ach ja: Man sollte auch Bedenken, das Aqua Terrarium hat Nema Stecker! In dieser Beschreibung von Amazon wird hierauf nicht hingewiesen.

La urna de cristal y la decoración están muy bien, sin embargo los enchufes no sirven par españa, por lo cual no se pueden colocar en la corriente eléctrica hubo que comprar adaptadores., y también la bomba de circulación de agua no funciona.por lo cual no se puede instalar la cascada. deberían enviar una de recambio. Tuve que comprar una bomba nueva para instalarla

I am not going to lie... this little paludarium has given me so much delight and joy since February when it was gifted to me on my birthday. I ordered all the little necessities with my gift card. I got substraight, sand, seeds for plants, filter media, and live moss and tiny water-loving plants for the topside. I set it up, added the seeds, sprouted them and let the tank cycle. I wedged the plants into the little receptacles, where the water is designed to run through. I surrounded them with moss. The little ecosystem cycled for a bit. I did two water changes to remove the really dark tannins from the wood, leaves & litter. And after three weeks, my ground cover had come in. I added a couple of ottos first. Then some ghost shrimp. Finally I got 5 strawberry rasbora. Chili and strawberry rasbora are the perfect size and this tank is ideal for them. The duckweed needs to be culled almost every day because it's a small surface and they propagate fast. You *could* keep a single Betta in this tank. A few guppies maybe. Nothing larger than a nano-fish otherwise. Tiny Rasbora are ideal. About 8-10 max. Neocardina shrimp might be able to jump out or get into the filter section and die. So larger shrimp like ghost shrimp are better. I made a short cover out of craft plexi to keep them from leaping to their deaths. I got a timed sunrise and sunset lamp. And even with the constant nutritious water pouring over the plant roots, they need to be misted too. But this little paludarium fits on a little end table by my desk and I spend a lot of home delighting on the baby ghost shrimp, the rotifers and edible things hatching in the duckweed. It's so fun. Recommend 100%. Downsides: tube in the pump is transparent, so it needs to me de-algaed with a pipe cleaner now and again to keep the water flowing. The light that comes with it is OK. An extra $15 for an automatic one with sunrise and sunset is worth it. The plastic plants are just landfill fodder. No point of having them in there if you're using it as it was designed for real plants. I do wish the filter-side was smaller and designed less clumsily. The fish and water-life seem to enjoy the cave overhang though. Also, you need to get the smallest, flat heater for this nano-tank to economize your space. Because of the vegetation i have, it's easy to buy rotifer or daphnia eggs that you can sprinkle in the growth at the water's edge. Then your fish have real food to hunt. I also added Thai micro-crabs, who live on the substraight and keep it clean. Some stowaway pest snails came with a Monte Carlo plant, and they stay mostly in the filter half of the tank. So they're manageable. Anyway... if you love plants and fish and tiny ecosystems, get this. It is a lot of work to get the ideal setup for a natural riverbank-scape. But it really is a delightful little tank. Really different from the usual freshwater setup.