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animals and plants to put into a large closed ecosystem? bottle biology, must be both aquatic and terrestrial?

it would be made up of 10 2Litre coke bottles and maybe a couple of the old mason jars if i can get them. bottles will be connected by pvc pipe to allow animals to go between sections.
must have both aquatic and terrestrial
must have both plants and animals living in each section

current ideas:
Aquatic
use 60% as aquatic
using elodea for oxygen production
using whatever small animals come in the water from the pond as well as to get bacteria?
guppies or maybe a goldfish to create waste for nutrients for plants? (what plants should i use?)
possibly cheat the animal for both sections using small frogs from the pond?
maybe triops or shrimp
snails to eat algae

Terrestrial
what plants should I use?
types of insects?

suggestions?
thanks

how do you get your triops to hach?

mine wornt hach i yoosed bottle water i put the nutrisons pack in nothing works

Will my triops hatch?

The instructions for my triops said to leave the spring water out for 4 hours for it to get to room tempurature but the water in the unopened bottle had already sat out to become room tempurature. I put the eggs in with out waiting 4 hours, but the water was still 75 degrees f. Is this okay?