Week 1

Today (10/01/2015) we started our Ecosystem in a bottle.
Here is what we put inside:

19cm Elodea 

3 snails

3 cotton strings, about a 12in long each 

organic soil

4 daphnia

8 Johnny Jump Up's seeds

1 radish seed

4 Zinnia flower seeds 

600 ml spring water 

gravel 

This is the bottom of our 2-tiered terrarium (the aquatic level)

This is the top of our 2-tiered terrarium (the terrestrial level). We put plenty of seeds; I hope we'll be able to see them grow! 

This is the whole 2-tiered terrarium.

-Our top 1 liter bottle has soil and flower seeds; this represents our terrestrial system.
-Our bottom 1 liter bottle is composed of water, rocks, elodia, snails, and daphnia and represents     our aquatic system.

We put our ecosystem by sunlight and will come back and observe in 1 week.

Additonal observations & wonderings:
-I noticed that the water we placed in our system appeared to be very clear. I wonder how our water clarity will look like over time?
-Although we placed different kinds of animals and plants in our systems, I'm curious how they will survive and grow in our closed ecosystem.