Extending Aquarium Garden

In this example, I use a 1 liter glass jar to set up a sustainable aquarium. 

Fill the jar with dechlorinated water. 

I like to use a tilted background. 

It makes any aquarium look better.

 Use the lid of the jar to make a planter.

 I have shown in previous videos how to make many variations of planters. 

Let's use this one. 

Planters reduce water evaporation and hold land plants in place. 

Now let's add seashells,  rocks, gravel, and whatever decorations you may want to add. 

Add rocks or gravel.

 This seashell looks pretty.

 And let's put a marble in the middle of the seashell.

I like how it looks. 

Now we have to add plants. 

In this example, I add a sample of land moss that has been growing underwater for a couple weeks.

It looks good and healthy.

 Let's put it in.

 We can leave it as it is...just put the planter on top. 

Let's add aquatic plants. 

Once a month, I remove old wilting parts of aquatic plants from aquariums to make fish food and to prevent algae blooms. 

Also, I use the old parts of plants to set up new aquariums. 

Let's get a cutting of Guppy grass from this old aquarium and move it into the new aquarium. 

The aquatic plants come with snails and other tiny critters clenching onto the plants.

 In the same fashion, I use cuttings of land plants growing with roots in water. 

These plants are still too small to make cuttings.

 So, let's take a cutting from a large plant. 

This Algerian ivy is long enough to make a couple cuttings. 

I cut it right here.

 The rooted cutting goes into the old aquarium. 

Let's remove the bottom leaf from the new cutting.

 And now we can put it into the new aquarium.

 A couple weeks ago, I put a cutting of an Inch plant in the old aquarium. 

It already has roots. 

Let's move it into the new aquarium as well.

 Basically, I use what already grows in my old aquariums to set up new aquariums. 

I add new plants to check if they grow with their roots in water.

 Let's add this lifesaver plant too. 

Do you know that many succulents grow with their roots in water? 

Check my videos about them. 

I add snails and whatever other critters from old aquariums into all new aquarium gardens. 

And I add young fish into aquariums of suitable sizes. 

That is how I grow my ever growing collection of aquarium gardens.

 Small or large, with fish or just snails, all of them are sustainable. 

Which makes them much more enjoyable to keep. 

Have fun and happy aquarium gardens :)