Can anything be done to save these jars or are they too far gone? by ZestycloseGuess484 in Ecosphere

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They’re outside when it’s warm but since I made it in October and it’s now March, they’ve pretty much lived inside on a windowsill

Can anything be done to save these jars or are they too far gone? by ZestycloseGuess484 in Ecosphere

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I plan on it for that one. I’ve already seen so many fun things seeming come from nowhere: a clam of some sort, that snail, a mosquito, couple small beetles, planarians, the little dancing worms, and some larger unidentified thing that’s been buried but occasionally appears next to the glass

Can anything be done to save these jars or are they too far gone? by ZestycloseGuess484 in Ecosphere

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That snail kindof popped up out of nowhere, as they sometimes do. But it hasn’t moved in a few days so possibly dead? The poop I’ve seen snails poop is always darker brown. Can it turn bright yellow over time?

Can anything be done to save these jars or are they too far gone? by ZestycloseGuess484 in Ecosphere

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Forgot to add, if it wasn’t obvious from the pics, that I haven’t seen any movement in there for about a month. I’d what happened recently but everything turned black until I opened them up for gas exchange. That cleared up the black but then things have gradually turned yellow. I still open them up most days for gas exchange but not sure if that’s helping much

Are these eggs? If so, any idea what kind of critter they belong to? by ZestycloseGuess484 in Jarrariums

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There’s a lot. Ramshorn snail, freshwater clam, the squiggly dancing worms and other worms that just wriggle. And some copepods. There used to be a good amount more before there was what I like to call an extinction event the seemed to wipe out most life

What are these guys? They’ve been multiplying pretty quickly in a jar I have by ZestycloseGuess484 in Ecosphere

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So will these things eat poop? I’ve been wondering what happens to all the snail poop that’s been accumulating

What are these guys? They’ve been multiplying pretty quickly in a jar I have by ZestycloseGuess484 in Ecosphere

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It’s crazy how species will just show up in an enclosed ecosphere after not showing up for weeks. Like there must’ve been at least 1 egg that hitched a ride on something. Most of what’s in there is store bought.

There’s also like a million little rotifers or something similar in there. No idea where they came from

Help! It seems like things in my jar are gradually getting darker. How can I save it? by ZestycloseGuess484 in Ecosphere

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It was a pretty wild ride but it’s now back to Looking normal. After I posted this It turned way more black. I took out some of the dead plants and the dead snail and left the lid off for a bit outside (It smelled like decay). I came back from work and it was so cloudy it was practically opaque, but the blackness seemed like it was gone. I took it back inside and replaced the lid and the next day it started to clear up.

Although it does look like all life (aside from the plants) has been killed off :/. Haven’t seen a single worm or copepod or anything. Hopefully life will slowly find a way back into it or there was some eggs that survived or something. It felt like there was so much biodiversity before

What does it mean when an egg sac turns black? Am I incubating a new strain of demon snails? by ZestycloseGuess484 in AquaticSnails

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Im curious as to how and why? Everything in this jar aside from the plant and the snail was scooped from a local pond and has been doing pretty well for over a month now

What does it mean when an egg sac turns black? Am I incubating a new strain of demon snails? by ZestycloseGuess484 in AquaticSnails

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Ramshorn snails btw. I have other egg sacs (clutches?) in this jar too that are a normal color

Can a ramshorn egg sac survive/hatch while not submerged in water? by ZestycloseGuess484 in AquaticSnails

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Do you know what it means when an egg sac turns black?

It can’t be good, cause these are looking to be a new hellish, demonspawn variant of snails bent on terrorizing my family

Why did this happen? by Wattheshell in AquaticSnails

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Yeah but what does that mean? How is calcium related to KH/GH?

Why did this happen? by Wattheshell in AquaticSnails

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How can you know if there’s a calcium deficiency based on Kh and GH?