Ecosystems

  We are making ecocolumns in class.  An ecocolumn is a terrarium inside a connector with a aquarium on the bottom.  The aquarium can have snails or guppies, we used snails.  In the terrariums you could use bugs sometimes potato bugs, crickets or/and roley polys.  We used crickets.

For people who don't know a terrarium is like a aquarium but for bugs.  We know that because terra means earth.  A terrarium is a field or any place where bugs can live or grass can grow

Photo by Garden Atlanta



  The bottom is a aquarium where we keep our snails and plants.  The reason you need the plants is because the plants will give out O2 (oxygen).  The snails will take the oxygen and give out CO2 (Carbon dioxide)which is what the plants need.  You also might also want to put algae for the snails to eat or they might eat the plants, my snails ate some of our plants off.

Photo by Dabney B.

Have you ever had an aquarium?

Have you ever had a terrarium?