Recipe for a RIPARIUM, otherwise translated into Italian as "RIVA paludarium"

• 1/3 of water (best to put it down ... for convenience. )
• 1/3 of beautiful plants
• 1/3 of air

Thus, a riparium is an open aquarium (without comperchio ... you can also uncover your aquarium trade, no one forbids!) With 1/3 of water where the remaining 2/3 can grow some plants emerged, somehow planted just below the surface of the water for the plant "pond" or aquarium that can grow emerged (Echinodorus, Hygrophila, Bacopa monnieri and many others), and instead just above the water level to terrestrial plants, tropical maybe seen who will be in an environment quite humid and warm under lamps (neon, HQI or HQL that are) and just above water around 24-26 degrees.
To get to the results seen in the picture, we can use some pots and jars, plastic with suction cups attached to the rear window or resting on rocks or wood, and if you want you can use some type of float (for example, the foam compact type that used in some mats for the kitchen or the drawers) to hold emerged leaves and branches that otherwise would fall into the water ... also tied to the trunks or anchored to the glass with suction cup.
Form a kind of floating lawn very attractive (note however, that the lower part will be in the shade. A shadow is not total, but always-shadow, for which the plants at the corners can also be a bit 'most demanding (compatibly with the coverage of the lamps that mount), while just below the emergent plants we put rocks or driftwood with moss and some plants undemanding in terms of light, such as Anubias or Microsorium.

Another interesting technique

Here a bell 'example by setting MEXICO (a biotope ... more or less) and a nice post in the forums AquaticplantCentral very cleverly, then a blog on the subject.

And here some specific product and a few articles under construction.

Up to now, for all the various nuances of construction , flora and fauna, I can recall the existence of several names for aquarium set up with a little water: paludariums, terrariums, orthotics, and Vivari these "new born", the GUARDS.