Ecospheres

[furtech]

Darn it! I really wanted to get another ecosphere , but this site (about pet shrimp) claims that the shrimp are slowly dying, not surviving in a balanced environment.

So, who's right?!?

I had one a few years ago and the shrimp actually grew noticeably over the year+ that I had it (broken in a house-cleaning mishap-- became the "Ghettosphere" at Casa Zor). So I'm not sure who's right.

Any opinions?

Comments

[coyoty.livejournal.com]

I just remembered that the first sphere I had, before I upgraded it, had snails in it to keep the glass from filming up. They were as interesting as the shrimp and would do things like crawl across the underside of the water surface tension, and sometimes did sommersaults across the glass and water surfaces. Being snails, though, they did reproduce readily and I think that's why they were removed from later spheres.