plants in the jar

Here's how my shrimp jar looked last week:

and this is it now:

I dropped in some elodea pieces the shrimps have been picking over-

there's lots of shells from snails Laddie has eaten- and I think they're useful in here- at least, I saw the first molted shrimp exoskeletons after I started dropping in ramshorn shells.

Buce is opening a new leaf-

Biggest thing is the addition of parrot's feather (a kind of water milfoil). It will either be a blessing in here to fill the jar with lovely green, or a curse for its stupendous growth rate. This piece on the left with folded up top, unfurled and shot taller than the nearby mermaid weed in one day.

it's real nice to see feathery green foliage filling the bowl- and happy shrimps crawling all over it- but maybe a bit alarming how fast it grows

I'm torn between loving its ferny appearance and vigor, and fearing I will regret having bought it, haha.

Topside- last week:

few days ago:

now: