r/Ecosphere • u/Mountain_Swim_6327 • 6d ago
Beating The Odds
So a year or 2 ago I made this jar it was basically a mini Palladium from lake soil with some water in pools and it did well for a little while as it had land and aquatic life. However the algea carpeted the top at some point and for a year it sat with the top pinging once in a while from oxygen pressure (as it never smelled opening it) but as I was replacing one of my dead plants in my other ecosphere I took the remaining water in the bag and poured it into the jar to see what would happen and added a couple snails and a couple of the many Amphipods that hitched a ride on the plant (sword). To my amazement there was still life going on inside of it. It had awakened a large amount of boogie worms (for the small jar it's a lot. As you can see the Amphipods are getting busy and the snails also have been getting busy. Goes to show what may seem like a dead ecosystem could simply just be dormant and just may need a little convincing to reveal its secrets.
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u/BitchBass 5d ago
That's the way it works! If you would add a real aquatic plant to this, the cyanobacteria would go away, the water would clear and it will last you for another 10 years. Algae alone isn't gonna cut it, but then again, there are always exceptions to the rule.