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Im not sure if i had gotten around to posting my first day bucket built or I forgot...i have a feeling I forgot to post a before vid, and I can't seem to find it in my gallery.

Anyway here is my 5 gal bucket pond project that did way way better than i had ever expected.

In here has the biggest copepods I've ever seen and there are so many more other creatures as well. It's teeming with life.

I had used 2 small jars of water from a local pond to get things started along with some of the sediments. Really wasn't much material about 22oz. The rest of water filled up was rain water.

It's outside in my front yard and recieves about 6hrs of direct sunlight and then about 2hrs of partial sunlight in the evening time. I've always been trying to grow water sprite in my inside aquarium but was never successful. I have never seen them grown so huge as they did in this bucket. And it taught me of the power of sunlight.

After observing that I do put my other jars in the evening sun for about 1 hr and I've noticed a huge bloom in the copepod populations.

I have really been around for the past 3 weeks to enjoy the view and activity happening inside the ecosystem but today I took a peak and noticed how crazy the little piece of guppy grass got along with the other floating plants. So I'll need to do some maintenance as soon as I can.

I don't want to make this post too long so I'll stop there but anyone interested in info I'll gladly try to provide.

Told you guys the last time he wasn't a show-er. Look at that girth now!

It's 10:30pm and I'm winding down for bedtime watching my jar. Upon closer inspection I can see some ghostly, glistening drops coming off the mini log on my jar. I can see a million things moving in these droplets and they are slowly falling...racing, to the bottom of the jar.

What are they?

Found this guy in a pond scoop. Looks like a fly In the larval form. I'm guessing they leave the water in this form to go find a dry spot to pupate? I saw him on the side of the container.

Where are the experts at? Share your knowledge please

What would cause a functioning walstad system to crash?

My tank is about 6 or 7 months old. I've got ramshorn, a female betta, some guppies in here. Not counting the micro organism that appear sometimes at night.

I remove as many frys as i can when the guppies multiply but it's getting a bit more challenging as the plants have become tangled.

My tank is not the average aesthetically pleasing tank that we're accustomed to on the sub here. It's chaotic and wild looking maybe because I changed designs many times as it was all unfolding, plus i was trying to cram alot into a small space.

My tank is a customed built 7gal tank that I built with a ceramic tile as the base.

Plants aren't so available to me here and the most common plant in the LFS are anubias and some other plant that I forgot the name of.

Most of my plants are locally sourced from in or around wetlands that I've visited.

I've recently got a fear that things might just crash. So I'm asking. What can cause a system to crash?

How do I keep my set up balanced continually?

Before i knew about the name 'Walstad' I had the idea that I wanted to get back Into fish keeping but I wanted something as natural as natural can get. No filter, no pump nothing. The name just made things a bit easier as in a direction to research in.

2.5gal tank I built today, because i could. I have a young blue whale and he's kinda Lonely. I want to know how many bettas can I fit in here with him?

I read that Bananas are great protein supplements for them so I threw one in.

Also is this enough water to keep him happy and from jumping out? What kinda of plants should I add? Thanks.

Someone couldn't wait until Sunday. Awards are sharing in another sub lol

Finally! It took this long to finally optimize these clan quests into useful and rewarding tasks. I was so sick of "use Atreus,Phoren to compete x chapter"

So I do love the celestial might Armor. But I've gotten demon king armor to mythic way before and I've jeep using it. It just dawned on me that i can get the new SS Armor.(i think)

I've read the stats on the SS armor and there are some stats specific to the trident, so im kinda iffy. I know overal SS gear is better than S but i need some convincing on why i should definitely go for it.

Imagine grinding and saving your currencies only to accidentally click and purchase something you don't want or need.

I'm so upset rn😭

It's a Vine plant.

Location: Caribbean

I just updated the game a couple days ago...I'm seeing a new update and it's telling me it needs 5gb to Install...what the hell??

I think this was potatoes...

Seems like different mold types in here

Or is this just 1 type at different stages?

Picture this:

You've spent weeks reviving and restoring the health of your little friend who has been suffering from dropsy. The day you decided to return him to his home (or rather a new and improved home) some mystery bullshit happens and he is missing.

Now mind you.

My tank broke 2 days after I set up this 5gal bucket for him. So I had spent the next 2 weeks repairing it.

I had planted this bucket. Was a really nice set up i was planning to use in the future for some small guppies. It's disarranged now because after gently swaying the net in the water for nearly 5mins i found it alarming that I wasn't finding him...so I emptied it.

After emptying it and realizing there's no fish. Immediately i got lightheaded, I had just moved the bucket 10mins ago and buddy was right at the surface greeting me. After about 30mins of overwhelming confusion I saw a bird swoop down on a little bush nearby and the way he was looking at me. I immediately knew. I swear this bird looked at me..looked at the bucket...looked at me again then hopped to a higher branch.

Im so enraged right now because this bucket has been outside for quite some time. I have raised several other fish types in the past in open containers outside in the same area and NEVER had this happened before.

First time raising bettas.

There are several other life challenges im facing right now that I have no idea how im going to figure it out. But this one hurts badly. This is the cherry on top.

I feel psychotic rn.

So i recently started prioritizing sigils to get a bit of boost. Felt like ive been stuck forever. After carefully scanning through my sigils I noticed I needed 10 more front arrow shards to unlocked.

I bought the box and selected front arrow.

Nothing happened. Box got consumed and I didn't get my shards. I refreshed the app. And still nothing

Thought I'd share my little jar of wonder with you guys.

Here I have a jar that really has surprised me.

I started off with a betta fish in here. But after receiving a ton of hate and angry criticism from the betta community...i considered their comments and moved him to a bigger area. Wasn't not purposely trying to suffer him in a small space....

The jar however...being just the right size for my desk, kept its place.

I went on to planting a few plants: guppy grass, ludwigia(i assume) and a third short dwafted grass-like plant that i cant seem to remember.

In it I presently have a ton of rams horn snails( they multiplied quite quickly after i increased food for a week)

2 local guppies( they were babies when I added them to my experimental jar...now they are fully grown and quite fun to look at. They are less than an inch long (Trinidadian guppy)

Presently my jar is about 4 months old...from the start I had no deaths and I haven't changed water ever...i have topped it up 4 times so far.

There is no pump. No filter. Nothing mechanical.

Sand is my only substrate...

I am new to this but I am a bit knowledgeable.

My dwarf grass like plant hasn't been growing much...it was melting alot at first but now that I think of it I havent seen it melted

However it hasn't multiplied either.

I wondering if it's lacking nutrients?

I had recently soldered up some led lights from an old led bulb and made it into a mini lamp powered by a phone charger to see if it'll help with plant growth.

Where it sits on my desk it don't get direct sunlight.

One thing I forgot to do (or More so didn't do because i learned about a little late) was adding soil at the base followed by the sand.

Please drop some advice on how can I better the environment

I feel like i got lucky here...

I also would like advice on how to grow ducweed and water sprite...two things I haven't seem to have luck with.

Id just like a confirmation on if this is indeed water sprite.

All the YouTube vids hype up how easy this is to grow...ive been successful with every and any other plant I got my hands on but this is embarrassing me.

I found it at the back of where I live in an area that is swampy...what am I doing wrong?

Also its very very fragile.

Look ma!! We flyin!! We flyin!!!

I bet y'all didn't know you can upgrade your MRAP to fly 😉 it costs alot tho