Oct 12, 2023
Jean Jacket was out and about and very lengthy (sometimes)
[video id: A small translucent leech in a jar, stretching to a long skinny thread and then scrunching to a ball as it moves]
seen from Singapore
seen from Canada
seen from Malaysia
seen from United States
seen from China
seen from United States
seen from China
seen from Yemen
seen from Malaysia
seen from United States
seen from Singapore
seen from Malaysia
seen from Türkiye
seen from China
seen from United States
seen from China
seen from Germany
seen from Türkiye
seen from Malaysia
seen from United States
Jean Jacket was out and about and very lengthy (sometimes)
[video id: A small translucent leech in a jar, stretching to a long skinny thread and then scrunching to a ball as it moves]
If you think about it tumblr is like one of those sealed ecosystems in a jar. We’re one of these
One of the two pincher bugs is actually male,,, I thought they were both female I just didn’t look at the other’s pincher closely enough. Anyways they’re always together and I find that cute
Came back from vacation and stared at my living snowglobe for a while
[Video id: An aquarium in a small jar, filled with delicate plants and tiny crustaceans, seed-shaped ostracods and shrimp-like amphipods, which swim around busily.]
Snail Jars!
Also, ideal antenna-to-body ratio on this ramshorn
These had other, fancier plants in them, but I was a dumb dumb and did not keep up with water changes during the cycling. However, Anacharis (Egeria Densa, Brazilian waterweed) works just fine in there! Mainly for the reasons it's very invasive 🙃
But it's putting down roots and keeping the water clean, so as long as I trim it, the snails seem happy. It may prevent the growth of some kinds of algae though, so replacing it with something else in the future may still happen.
The snails are also much happier without fish biting their antennas down to nubbins QuQ
Time lapse of my mini jarrarium with creatures and plants from the local lake :)
Flatworm - little red zoomy guy
Bladder snail - the biggest thing and only snail, which you can see eating in X-ray vision apparently
Scuds (Amphipods) - the little shrimpy guys
Ostracods - the little round things darting between plants
Round worms/detritus worms - the white wiggly things that like to make tubes houses from sticks and sand
[Video ID: A slightly sped-up video of a small jar aquarium. A snail is lit from behind as it eats, showing the internal movement of its mouthparts. Tiny shrimp-like creatures scramble between plants and a red worm gracefully sides over the white sand.]
THE ROLLY POLLY IS BACK I HAVENT SEEN HIM IN TWO DAYS
Duckweed