One more thing. Just now I was letting Franny and Zooey out to play. As they're in the backyard doing their business, I peer into a planter that sits in front of my house. I toss old Aqua Soil and scraps after a rescape into this thing. It's filled with water and some sort of bamboo-looking plant.
Anyway:
I notice that there are Cherry Shrimp in there. I don't recall putting any shrimp in there, but they could have hitched a ride during a Aqua Soil toss. I also see Riccia, pearling. And Glosso growing emersed and submersed. Various mosses doing various things. And plants that resemble plants I poured into there, but more wild-looking and vital. Some of the stuff is growing better than in my balanced light-to-CO2 tanks.
I just don't know how the shrimp are surviving in there. The water I pour into it is straight from the hose and the temps drop pretty low from time to time.
It's pretty cool to see something like that. Nature doing what it does: finding a way to keep on keeping on.
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