Ecosphere
- Blasbert the bladder snail
I just want to keep this community active by posting a picture of Blasbert.
- Let's see what's living in there
I got a jar of sand from the sea. It's probably around ten years old but let's see of there is still life. I will take some and put it in saltwater. For example copepods sometimes lay eggs that can survive up to 20 years without any water so I hope that at least something will hatch...
- Is here anyone from the "old" ecosphere community?
Currently I just share pictures of my jars but I was wondering if there are people from the ecosphere subreddit.
- Ecosphere too healthy?
This ecosphere is more than 6 months old and I think it's too healthy because the aquatic isopods and bladder snails don't find anything to eat so their population went down. Water is clear and got no smell at all.
- Lake Constance 2 weeks later
Plants are growing fast and snails are eating algae all the time so it looks healthy so far.
- Lake Constance is beautiful
Lake Constance is full of killer shrimp (invasive species) but since they're aggressive to pretty much anything and eat plants if nothing else is available I made it the new home of Hyalella azteca which are probably 1/3 the size of killer shrimps and fit so much better in jars.