My Paludarium Experience

Hello, all! My name is Jared, I’m twenty years old, and I’m in college. I’m still living with my parents and not working at the moment, so I have limited space and money. I’ve always thought that having a mini-ecosystem on my desk would be really cool, so today I finally decided, despite the face that I have zero experience, to make one.

First and foremost, I wanted to create a vivarium — an enclosed area for growing plants and animals. Once I learned that there were more than one type of vivarium, I decided I wanted to have my own paludarium — a vivarium consisting of both aquatic area and a shore of land. This way I could grow aquatic life, like fish and frogs, land life, like lizards and worms, flying insects, like flies, and both air and water plants, like spider plants and duckweed.

So, just like that, I decided today that I’m going to build my own paludarium. What I plan to do is journal all of my research, steps, and findings here. I have no idea how long it will take, or how many attempts it will take to get a working ecosystem. But if you follow my journey, or read and learn from my journey, you should be able to create your own paludarium as well!

But now I must be off to bed! It’s late here! So I will see you all tomorrow with (hopefully) some new findings!

Your duckweed-loving friend,
Jared