hey everyone welcome back to another
terrarium update today we're gonna be
taking the one-year look at the tiny
native terrariums currently the tiny
terrarium demonstration is the most
watched video on my channel at about two
million views and first of all I never
expected that any of my videos would get
that many views and second of all I
can't believe that it's the tiny
terrarium video that has that many views
I mean I really didn't put that much
work into that video comparatively to a
lot of my other videos but I think it's
just the selling point of being a tiny
terrarium but I just kind of wanted to
give you guys a little preface before
you get into this and if you haven't
seen the video I linked it up here of
course but let's do a little update on
all these terrariums and we'll do some
maintenance of course and show you guys
what's going on to begin we'll do a
brief overview if the five of these and
I'll take a look at them all each
individually as we do the maintenance
other than five these two are not doing
so well and by that I mean that they're
pretty much dead unfortunately they kind
of dried out and I think that maybe some
air was sneaking in through the Cork's
but they dried out and then there's
really no life to speak of in there so
what I want to do is rehydrate these add
a little bit more moss and get them up
to speed with the other three now onto
the other three they're doing fairly
well but unfortunately there's a little
bit of algae built up in there and this
one is a little bit overgrown so what
we'll do is we'll remove whatever algae
we can trim them up as necessary maybe
add a few new elements and then we'll
add some additional spring tales to
combat the leftover algae over all these
streams are doing fairly well maybe a
little bit better than I had anticipated
unfortunately whenever you're working
with native plants and whenever I say
native plants I'm referring to temperate
plants specifically obviously the term
native plant is subjective to wherever
you live so you could live in a tropical
area and you're probably not gonna run
into this issue but whenever you're
living in the United States for example
where we have temperate plants and
you're using them in terrariums I would
have to say that at least 70% of the
plants they're just not gonna work
long-term
they may thrive for a little bit now
just kind of die off now you can't find
ones that will actually work long-term
but it's rare so whenever you're working
with dreams and you're wondering man it
just it's not working all my plants keep
dying if you're just sourcing plants
locally that could be the reason and I
would recommend trying some tropical
plants and that's what I prefer to work
with but anyways we'll start doing the
maintenance on these and I'll show you
what kind of tools I have ever here to
do so before we're off the materials
that I intend to use here I have a
little pipette and yes this time around
I actually have a real pipette I was
using a straw and we have some
dechlorinated water over here that we're
gonna use to rehydrate the terrariums
then I have some tweezers here I'm
praying only gonna use these on so I'm
not really sure why god these runs but
some tweezers and we've got some tiny
scissors for tiny trails I mean why not
then we've got some q-tips I'm not sure
if I'm going to use these or not I
mainly have these to wipe off any excess
algae and then we have a bamboo shish
kabob skewer and some toothpicks and
these will be used to kind of aerate the
substrate a little bit and remove algae
so let's get into some maintenance we'll
start out here with the one that's
overgrown I think it's probably best to
start with this one because whatever
moss we trim out of it we can just reuse
in some of our other terrariums check
that out it's all pretty much grown out
of the top that's pretty cool so I think
what I'm going to do is just gently snip
some of this Moss and then we'll pull it
out with the tweezers
I've never actually used these scissors
before I just bought them today for this
purpose unfortunately you're not kind to
I wasn't got a different pair of
scissors because I really don't want to
just rip all this moss out some of it I
kind of want to just trim so see if we
can't cut some of this out
although I've trimmed some of that
forest in there I kind of want to come
in and see what amount of algae I can
kind of scrape out of here if any
now we'll come in with this q-tip and
just kind of clean some of this junk
off the glass I would help maybe I'll
dip it in water first
now I've got the container all cleaned
out we've trimmed up the moss and
whatnot I'm gonna kind of get these logs
I guess so not really logs they're just
kind of like little twigs but I'm gonna
get this back to how they were
just like that and we will add maybe
like two drops of water in here two more
now what we've got off to speed we're
just gonna add some spring tales and the
way that I'll add them this time is I
will just kind of shake a piece of
charcoal over the top of this with some
tweezers so I'm let me get a piece all
this culture here
all right so now we've got that all good
let me just take a final look at it
before I close it up yep I think it's
looking good the moisture content looks
good as well and let's cork this bad boy
up
next we'll move on to this tall skinny
one here and with this one I'm not
really trying to remove any of the moss
but I am trying to pick out some of the
algae and this one it's more stringy
kinda looks like it could be hair algae
so I'm just gonna kind of pick it out
with my tweezers the best I can if I can
so I think what I'll do is I'll just
press this down into the substrate then
so essentially what we have here is like
a moss base no ground area and I think
what I'll do is I'll I'll scape it here
and a little bit with some new hard
scape elements
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so I think what I want to do now is kind
of pull some of this Moss back to expose
a little bit of the substrate here and
what I'm gonna do is fill the front with
sand so what I'm gonna do is a good
little piece of paper fold it up here
put a little bit of sand on here and
I'll turn the tray on the side luckily
everything is kind of just in place
right now so pour the sand in there make
a little bit of a different look for
this one okay it's a little bit of an
interesting look and we will add some
stones in here
there we go
and that was hard to get to lay just
right and from here I'm gonna add the
water now draw a picture here drops
there and I have some twigs from the
original demonstration and I'm gonna try
to get these down in there to look kind
of cool so unlike the other one where
they're kind of angled in the container
itself this one I want them like
actually sticking out of the ground
you know and I think that would do it
and now we'll cook this one up so right
now the vision for this one you might
not see it but what I want to happen is
all of this moss in the background I
want it to grow up tall and kind of fill
in with these sticks here so it kind of
looks like a undergrowth and a forest or
something like that and then keep this
foreground with the rocks and sand look
like that next on to the smallest one of
the bunch else one isn't doing as well
as I had initially thought in the
beginning of the video but if yeah I
wanted to actually remove this log here
and then we're just gonna clean off the
glass here with one of these q-tips
so we've got this all cleaned up what
I'm gonna do is tip some of this moss in
the water that I got out of that other
tray and we're just gonna stuff it right
down on in here we'll put this stick
back in there which I think it was
actually a plant at one point in time
but now it's a stick I mean enough so
yeah I mean this one's so small what can
you really do with it
crooked back up
and now on to this one so this one I can
see the cork is just like ship crumbling
to pieces so I will actually go and get
a cork to replace this here in a second
I can't even get a like container itself
it's easy scissors come in handy now
okay so this one there's a little bit of
moss left in here and it's dried up so I
think that it could come back to life
but I want to add new Moss just in case
that doesn't okay
this one I'm gonna do a little bit
differently I've got a patch of duck
weed and some sphagnum Moss from one of
my fav areum's both of these were
actually sourced locally so it is still
keeping with the theme of a native
terrarium and I have some of the logs
that were originally in here so there's
some liver work on this patch of moss as
well so what this in the back
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good enough thank you getting there cork
all right so I was getting through all
my corks and whatnot and I wasn't able
to find a decent cork but I saw this
bottle in here of Blanton's bourbon and
I was thinking you know hey maybe that
cork will fit it's kind of loose on this
container so I can't really use it for
this anymore check this out and that's
pretty cool right see that's why I don't
like getting rid of anything I can just
go down into my bin and find something
cool like this that will just fit onto
one of my terrariums however I just
realized that I forgot to put the
springtails in here so let's do that
real quick so with this one we're gonna
keep it really simple I'm just gonna
stuff a patch of moss in there no
scaping or anything like that
one of the springtails of course which I
don't really think we need them in this
one since it's so minimal but without a
fee decent case and just like that we're
done we'll take a look at all of them
now
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and not about those are for the one-year
update on the tiny terrariums but
there's one more thing that I want to
cover real quick before he close up on
this you may have seen that whenever I
was going through all the trades that
there wasn't any springtails live and
that's totally fine although I always
just the use of spring tales and
terrariums they're not necessarily
needed however you want to think about
what's going on in a terrarium it's a
closed environment with a bunch of
moisture and organic material it's
pretty much the perfect environment for
mold to occur in mode tents occur most
often whenever you first set up a
terrarium and it's becoming acclimated
so if you put springtails in a terrarium
when it's first set up then you pretty
much won't have any issues with mold if
it pops up they'll eat it and they
should be able to last in a tray and
long enough before it becomes
established however my larger terrariums
and some of the other ones that I've had
going for over over a year so the spring
tales are still alive and thriving I
just think with these ones since they're
so small it's just it doesn't provide
enough living area or gain material so
you know different things like that for
the Spring Coast lasts long term so I
just wanted to throw in a little tidbit
about that so that just you know just
throw some extra knowledge out there and
that officially sums it up as always I
appreciate you guys and I thank you for
watching we've got a lot of cool
terrarium builds coming up in the near
future as well as a lot of different
projects with my animals and whatnot and
just a lot coming up so I'll see you
guys next time and peace