Self Sustaining Aquarium experiment

00:00 Self Sustaining Aquarium experiment Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/aquarium_garden/ Blog: https://rndmbits.blogspot.com/2025/05/self-sustaining-aquarium-experiment.html All my projects https://website www.fewdoit.com 00:05 Fill up a clean 3 liter plastic bottle with dechlorinated aged water. Add gravel to cover the bottom. Now we can add plants and critters. Here I add a cutting of rooted Elodea. Poke holes in the bottle about 2 cm above the water level. Let's add another cutting of Elodea. Add 3 Bladder snails. I add a couple months old land moss growing underwater. It's been growing well so far even in a smaller jar. Also, let's add some floating Frogbits plants. The plants and snails will have access to the atmospheric air only through the holes we made. 01:07 Would the plants and snails sustain for a couple months in this tank without any additional nutrition? Also, let's check how this young Dwarf Lilly would do in this tank. Here it goes. I keep Seed Shrimp in all my aquariums. All tiny critters usually come with plants I moved into any new tank anyway. Let's make it official and put some Seed Shrimp in the tank. I closed the bottle on July 1st 2018 and left as it is for a couple months. 01:46 About 5 months later on November 26th, 2018. Some snails and Seed shrimp survived without me feeding them at all. The plants look weak, but alive. I see a baby snail here. The water level did not changed at all. Check my video update on the follow up experiment without holes for air access ;) https://youtu.be/q75msZAarAA Have fun and happy aquariums :)