I'm working on a jarrarium. It's about 3 gallons. I started it with organic gardening soil and gravel. I planted it with some Val, java fern glued to driftwood and some dwarf hair grass. Added a couple pest snails from my 20 gallon as well as water from the same tank. I've also put in a bit of fish food. It's been about 3 weeks since I set it up. No heater ( temps have been 68-70) and no filter. Lighting is just from some indirect and the table lamp above it. I've only done 1 50% water change and a couple of top ups. Here are today's tests: and this is my terrible setup. What should I do to fix this?
by Maximum-Ladder-1821
2 Comments
Pic of the jar isnt attached, but I would think you’d want to do a 70% or so water change now and get brighter grow lights on those plants so they can do their job better at removing all that gunk. Those are some wild ammonia and nitrogen levels. I would hold off on putting any sort of fish food in there for a while.
I’ve had cycling success from no supplemental feeding, letting two ramshorns go nuts on any sort of algae growth, and direct grow light for 8 hours a day. 0 ammonia, 0 nitrite, 10 nitrate after 1 month and tons of snail breeding and plant growth
The post with the jarrarium is titled “Jarrarium in progress*