Aquarium, Terrarium, Green wall, Microgreen and Aquaponic substrate building block

Aquarium, Terrarium, Green wall, Microgreen substrate building block
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updated May 22, 2023

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Simple building block to make it easier to build awesome natural landscapes for Aquariums, Terrariums, Greenwall features or Microgreens.

Anyone doing any of the above knows it's not trivial trying to sculpt landscapes with living plants to follow contours/hills/walls etc.  Especially with aquariums all the soil tends to settle flat over time.   This is V1 of simple building block that hopefully simplifies the process to keep everything in place to quickly make nice looking structures.

There is a pin that locks the blocks together for building green walls or larger structures.

The block with holes in the bottom is intended for an aquaponic or self watering system.   For aquaponics use a neutral medium like Rockwool, Dacron, pebbles, clay balls etc.  Place a small pump in your aquarium (or reservoir) and feed the water to top most pots, water trickles down through system, cleaning the water and feeding the plants.  There is a small waterfall attachment so you can add water features to such a system.

The posts are there to make sloping beds.  Interchange various size (20,40,80mm) pots to create different gradients.

Use the wall clips to attach to wall to make green wall.  There is small 3 wide reservoir to catch drips (or to make recirculating system).  Another clip for hanging green wall off side of aquarium.  No doubt other clips could be made to hang in other places.

To make these pots water tight, spray with a clear coat inside and out (I use Rustoleum 2X Clear).  If you don't they will weep water over time.

 

 

 

Model origin

The author marked this model as their own original creation.

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