Wild cherry shrimp and snails plus plants is all the info I have. Would love any tips to make sure nothing dies or anything I should add! Thanks!

I didn't think it would turn out that good :)

I changed my jar experiments quite a bit, thought I'd share the progress. The starting point can be viewed here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Jarrariums/comments/1bmhchn/whats_next/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

The room is around 21-23c.

Jar 7:

I put compost/dirt from my own balcony garden in jar 7 that was empty before, and capped with white aquarium sand. I released a lot of daphnia and artemia from jar 3 into it, and put the mystery plant from jar 6 in there, presumed to be a Bog Arum. (turns out it looks a lot like a lily after all) The Arum grows extremely rapidly, already the first few days I put it in, it was shooting out roots that i could see had grown visibly from day to day, and unfurling leaves faster than any plant I have owned. There is unidentified grass-like plants in nr 7 and what I think is a decaying land-clover. The daphnia are thriving and growing quite big. I was surprised to learn that daphnia can see my siphon, and are afraid of it. They swim away from it rapidly. I added a pistia (water lettuce).

The arum had a decaying part of it that was being eaten by presumably a water mold, I looked at it in the microscope and discovered that the water mold was being eaten by many different type of bacteria/microorganisms.

Jar 5: It had the most life from a lake, but the much decaying organic matter in it began to smell too much, so I dumped the content out into a box on my balcony. Unfortunately we had a cold spell and it froze to ice, but I suspect they might survive it anyway. I reassembled it with less of the macro life:

I put duckweed (survived), a pistia (it molded and died a few days after) and the wild found plants from a river to the 5.2 jar, as well as uncapped compost dirt. Unfortunately, the buried wild found plants seem to be decaying as soon as they were added to the compost dirt, they were growing in the tapwater, but the dirt water / ecosystem / lack of light seems unsuitable to them. The ones that floated up seems to be surviving. Maybe there is not enough oxygen? I think I will have to bail them out. There are copepods and other small critters moving in the water column, but the insects are out on the balcony.

Jar 5 being so hostile to plant life is a little disconcerting, seeing as the same dirt is used for the bottom layer in jar 7 (thriving) and the aquarium bottom layer (nothing there has died yet).

I ended up buying a nano tank in the end, and inherited a bunch of plant cuttings with bladder snails. I am letting them grow out while I figure out a hardscape.

You can check my post history for more posts about the plants and aquarium. I am learning a lot.

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Jar 7

Jar 7, the Arum is growing into the compost dirt.

Jar 4, the spiderplant is growing very attractive roots. I may put it in the aquarium above the water.

Jar 5.2 The mystery river plants are decaying.

Jar 5.2 The plants that didn't stick to the bottom, are surviving.

Aquarium with bladder snails and maybe daphnia, if they survive the filter. (presumed unlikely) I will likely remove or modify the filter to keep shrimp, because this filter is supposedly a known shrimp fry killer.

Microorganisms from Jar 7, presumably eating an assumed water mold.

Hey everybody, possibly stupid question. I have no prior experience with aquatic plants.

I've got some duckweed, water hyacinths and other floating plants from my uncle and a transparent bowl about 7cm deep.

I'm trying to do a floating plants only setup with no substrate, basically just the bowl, water, and plants.

Things im concerned about are

• not enought nutrients
• algae
• frequent water changes
• encouraging mosquitos to have children in my bedroom

Would this be a bad idea? Thx

Hi! I'm doing research into what I'd need for a small terrarium, ideally in a mason jar, since I have those readily available. I don't know very much about growing plants or terrariums, so I'm very much a true beginner. I live in an area that's pretty temperate, usually, but can get pretty cold in the winter and very hot in the summer (especially lately with climate change), so I'm not sure what kind of plants to grow.

I have the vessel

• clay pebbles
• potting mix
• charcoal
• Sphagnum Moss
• and mesh

Anything else I’m missing or that you suggest/ recommend?

Thanks in advanced! I’ve always wanted to have one

Need a good one to look at all the neat critters in my jars, but so far most of the ones that have been recommended to me aren’t compatible with iPhone. It would be really nice not to have to hook up my computer every time I wanna see something tiny!

This is about as good as I can get with my phone camera alone (occasionally I get lucky and something is really close to the edge and actually sitting still). Ready for an upgrade! Anyone have one that they really like?

Made my ramshorn snail Bluey their own snailarium with some friends🐌

I have a small terrarium inside a vase (with a lid) that has a tiny water pool up front and the rest of the substrate is sloped to make a moss and plant wall. A couple of months old but the plants are doing fine – moss is bushy, fens is happy, random cuttings seem ok.

The water pool is not touching the soil. There's a decorative rock wall and LECA on the other side separating water from the soil. However, naturally it's quite high humidity.

The issue is that the back of the terrarium is facing a window so gets a bit of a sunlight. The water part doesn't seem to have much/any algae (maybe the two tiny hitchhiker snails help) but the earthy substrate that's touching the back of the glass is clearly green.

Again, the soil doesn't seem waterlogged, the plants seem happy.

Should I be worried about this? Are there any critters that can help with this? (e.g., do springtails eat it and would they burrow in to get it?)

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