Unlabelled Jarrariums - My fossil themed terrarium.

January 03, 2020
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Jarrariums - My fossil themed terrarium.

My fossil themed terrarium.

Posted: 02 Jan 2020 08:17 PM PST

One of my jars is currently booming with small inverts! I think they are seed shrimp!

Posted: 03 Jan 2020 07:51 AM PST

First timer here. Looking for any tips or tricks that you wish you knew befor you started.

Posted: 03 Jan 2020 08:13 AM PST

I make homemade soil for my closed jarrariums (also planted aquariums). This isn't a picture of a jarrarium but I hope it's ok. I don't need an expensive CO2 system. I have a method that creates soil that produces more CO2 then the plants need among other useful qualities.

Posted: 03 Jan 2020 05:27 AM PST

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IMBOKYCIQU

I designed it to hold onto nutrients so they wont leach into the water column and deplete quickly if someone was doing weekly water changes. Despite being very wet, I can put it down in the tank and fill it with water and the soil wont turn the water brown, the last picture is the next day to show that time doesn't cause it to leach either.

https://imgur.com/gallery/jhaBTma

Ideal water parameters:

To add to my previous post about my soil. The parameters are exactly what I was hoping to see when creating the recipe. I'm not just creating soil with certain parameters, I have to create soil that has to cause the water to have certain parameters too.

The water pH, Phosphate, Hardness, Carbonate Hardness, Ammonia and Nitrate levels are all exactly where I want them to be.

Even Nitrate that was at 110 ppm is at a good level. After adjusting the soil the water now reads an optimal 15 ppm of Nitrates. I didn't have to remove nitrates to do it either, the same amount is still in the soil, I simply sprinkled some magic dust and performed a satanic ritual.

--Ph: 7.5 nice and neutral the best place for it to be. The aquarium owner can easily adjust it up or down as needed without having to add a ton of stuff to adjust a very high or very low starting pH for example. This level is ideal for most fish and plants.

--General Hardness: 161 ppm hard water, what I want and at a level I want.

--Carbonate hardness: 53.7 ppm also ideal.

--Phosphate: .5-.7 ppm This is more tricky, but I think this is optimal. It's not 0ppm but not greater than 1ppm. letting the aquarium owner dose the phosphorus based upon how much their plants uptake is better than not having any at all and having more than the owner needs and not being able to do anything about it, risking algae.

--Nitrate: 15 ppm very ideal level for a planted tank.

--Ammonia: 0 ppm Usually with dirted tanks and substrates on the market they cause a spike in ammonia for a week like ADA Amazonia that requires daily water changes. My soil has resulted in no measurable level of ammonia in the water.

These nutrients are at levels that should be absorbed by the plants in a week so that when the aquarium owner's do the typical weekly water change there's not an abundance of unused nutrients that will be wasted. It's a balance between including some water nutrients but not too much to be wasted and deplete the soil quickly.

This adjusted soil is very good. The only problem is I didnt write down how I made it very well (kept adjusting it and lost track). If I can't recreate this soil I wont be happy.

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A fungus is spreading in my storebought sealed terrarium. What can I do?

Posted: 03 Jan 2020 05:15 AM PST

Advice Please! :)

Posted: 02 Jan 2020 10:13 PM PST

Hello! I am interested in starting my first "jarrarium" and was thinking of a pretty small set up with a snail and moss balls being the only live components (and maybe some sort of shrimp). I welcome any and all advice on setting this up! I also have a curious cat who likes to dip her paws in open containers of water, so I was thinking of building some kind of mesh cover, or making it a self-sustaining (closed) environment.

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Volcanic soil

Posted: 02 Jan 2020 09:23 PM PST

Is volcanic soil useful in a jarrarium with aquatic plants? I would still need potting soil for a carbon source, right?

Thanks!

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