The Native Terrarium 2 YEARS Later

"How's this terrarium doing today? When are we going to see the native terrarium again?!" I know I slack on the updates... To be honest after the first update I usually don't feel like filming/editing another one and as a result they kind of fall by the wayside. That's for a number of reasons, but largely that I like to focus while doing maintenance and don't really care to film it. That said, I will continue to sporadically film them whenever I feel like it.

Anyways, two years (or one year) later this terrarium is still going strong. Overall it's a fairly simple design, but I think it's effective and looks quite natural. Generally speaking that's my goal with terrariums anyways. I like to showcase a slice of nature and as I'm eluding to, in my opinion this terrarium does exactly that.

The terrarium "purists" will attack me because I opened a closed terrarium, but as I've said it's very beneficial and just makes sense. For me this is an art form and as and art form I will unapologetically show it that way. Anyways, if you want to see more videos involving this terrarium, check out the links below.

I definitely recommend watching the original build and the redo to learn more about native terrariums, but I've also linked more videos on that topic below. So if your new all of this they should help you get started.

#terrarium #nativeterrarium #serpadesign

[SerpaDesign]

I'm really enjoying this terarrium and I like how the update turned out as well! I personally don't care for the updates, but I'm curious about what you think. Should I continue doing the updates?

[darkhorse]

Those isopods got the life, a nice little home, no rent, free from predators and the landlord renovates every year or so.

[-Burb]

My 7th grade science teacher had a terrarium that has been growing for 20 YEARS. It had tons of plants and was super big and dirty on the inside, but everything was growing just fine on the inside. It was insane.

Edit - About 20 years according to him. Even if it wasn’t, it was still obviously super old.

[evilgenius]

That one thumbs down is from an isopod that got its house messed with

[FaZeZombieslayer]

I’ve actually got a completely sealed native terrarium that’s been going 3 years strong with absolutely no maintenance whatsoever. The crazy thing is it actually sits outside, exposed to the elements. It only started with an inch of soil, but the decomposing matter has actually created a 2-inch layer of soil. Maybe ill show it in a video!

[Lepsuzzz]

Imagine waiting 50 years then you finally found tiny humans living there

[LiyanaDIY]

I really appreciate these updates! I love terrarium videos!

[richardlie]

I made one using big old pickle jar today, gathering all the moss and wood while playing to the nearby waterfall, thanks for the inspiration

[vampgaia]

Every time I see one of your videos, I want to make whatever you were demonstrating. Some of the builds are beyond my skills right now. However, I could make a native terrarium, so I think I will! Happy holidays!

[carminepetracca]

i think you are the most patient person i have come to know tanner. great job.

[rborgeal]

Hi Tanner, first of all, thank you so much for all the educative videos you have made so far, my girlfriend and I have learn a lot.
We have done around 10 closed terrariums about 3 weeks ago, and we are currently noticing that mold is building mainly on dry wood pieces. We are ventilating them regularly and we have replaced contaminated wood pieces but the mold is still coming back.


For the composition of our terrariums, we have followed your instructions, and from that point we tried different kinds of false bottoms with mesh, always with activated charcoal. The substrate is made of coco fivers, sheet moss, potting mix. Finally, we have different kinds of plants and local mosses. Some are only mossariums, composed of false bottoms and activated charcoal only.
We have also boiled decorative wood pieces and rocks for sterilisation and using spring water only. 

We didn't find springtails for now but there is life in the terrariums coming from the local mosses (which look like springtails).


We are assuming that the origin of the problem would be either:
- over watering,  
- the potting mix that we added to the substrate (we have seen afterwards your video where you advised against using this),
- or the local mosses might have brought some spores of mold...?


What would be the problem according to you? Would you have some advice?
Again, thank you a lot for the videos and the tremendous time you're spending on these, there are really inspiring.


R+V

[starbyray]

Yes its good to see updates on your projects. I always watch your designs/builds and wonder how they mature and develope.

Merry Christmas to you and your family ;o)

[markfinney]

Long time subscriber, love your videos! Finally got ourselves together and went foraging today and found some beautiful moss and other things. Spent the whole afternoon as a family and now have 6 native terrariums of varying sizes on the go! Thanks you again!

[derekcalhoun]

Thank yo for all the work you have done. I have been watching your channel for about 6 months now. It has inspired me to start my own terrariums I have 3 at this time. And working on some more. Thank you for everything.

[SonaliSingh-nndm]

I made my first closed terrarium today! Really happy. Not very optimistic about its future but will get better with time because I will be making many more of them. Thanks a lot for the inspiration.

[henri]

Its actually not unusual for plants like fern to appear like this as many seeds are stored in the earth as diaspores (not sure about the translation here) waiting for their time to shine. We talked about this in class the other day

[willc]

I love the natural look and how it looks like you are doing a surgery to the setup, great work.

[KimCarmenWalsh]

One of my favourite terrarium’s of yours! Lovely to see how well it’s doing 💚

[tinyblue]

Recently came across your channel and I've been binge watching all your builds! Absolutely love what you're doing and it's definitely making me want to have a go!

[barbiegirl]

I just want to say that I am so excited that I’ve found your channel today! I find your videos so relaxing and educational. Thank you 🙏🏻 for that.