For some reason, time always seems to crawl agonisingly slow for me. Professor Einstein said that time is a relative thing. Why is it that my relative way of looking at time is so painfully slow? I would like time to go fast for me, just once. It feels like I have already lived 8 lifetimes. I hate it.
@@indridcold8433Repetitive action of any sort (something of your interest) + meditation will do justice! However, life taking forever for you may be because you are doing many different and interesting things in your life. Difference brings contrast. Contrast brings perspective. Perspective brings feelings and perceptions. 😎🙏
I think you are correct. I think your "Boogie Worms" went into a sort of hibernation until the environment could support them again. I love how that's a real-world life cycle.
you should try making a (probably larger) ecosphere specifically designed to contain multiple distinct microbiomes, to see how much it affects biodiversity for instance, making it a palludarium, having a corner full of rocks, one with a big piece of wood, etc
From what I have noticed with my ecosystem is that Boogie worms will, remain dormant for months or even longer. They disappear and reappear every couple of months.
This ecosphere inspired mmy niece and me to make ecospheres a few years ago - one of them we had for three years, but then my father through it out 🥺 it's my niece 17 years birthday very shortly - now I have a great idea for a birthday present! She'll really like it - and I'll give her a beautiful jar to have one in her room! 😄 boogie time, I hope 🕺🏻
@@deafmusician2 lol we've made quite a few - she had a period where that was just the best! Some of them grew very old, I saved one. I thought! My father through it out, and both my niece and me were kinda sad about that. She's having a period, where she likes to revisit childhood hobbies and projects - I think it'll hit just the right spot of being a pretty, cute, and interesting thing that's a nice reminder of that childhood that flashed by so fast - I've saved the very nice vintage pickling glass jars we used. I'm kinda the uncle who's only cringe in ways that's not too embarrassing - that's a very big compliment from this young lady 😆 with the other stuff, I'm pretty sure I get this very right, but my goodness a funny image you planted in my head! Will definitely use it in the card 😂
Tubifex worms are usual indicators for saprobic index. That probably means that ecological condition in the jar are high value of organic mater and low oxygen level, perfect condition for Tubifex worms XD
All those shrimp shells at the bottom were pretty cool. It reminds me of the shells of the microscopic organisms that make up the Sahara desert sand, but obviously not microscopic. It would be nice to see a ecosphere that the animal life consisted of mostly shelled organisms just to see if their shells build up over time into a colourful layer. I would give it a try but I’m only getting into the hobby.
I do not know what to say. apart from kurzgesagt, your channel is the only English-language channel that I regularly watch. I click on all your videos immediately, I love that you pull ancient ecospheres out of nothing, you keep your promises, and you give your viewers a lot of knowledge.
I'm glad to see an update on this jar! This was the jar that inspired me to make my own jar ecosystem back in July 2020, a few months after the two year update video and not too long after I discovered the channel. I originally added a few plants, but none lasted more than a few months. I had duckweed as well which lasted over a year. Stringy algae, much of which is above the water, now serves as the main source of photosynthesis. There are other algae growing on the glass and in the substrate. The substrate hosts some bacterial colonies as well. The water was quite murky for the first year or two before clearing up. In terms of macroscopic animals, it started out with amphipods, small ostracods, bladder snails, boogie worms, hydra, mites, and a huge leech. The only one that I have seen recently is the amphipods. The mites were the first to go, largely killing themselves by crawling into the jar's seal and getting stuck. The ostracods were surprisingly the second to go! The snails managed to reproduce and a few months in had a large population but went extinct by around a year or so. I suspect the leech was praying on them and the ostracods, as they both went extinct before the leech died. A leech that size would likely have been consuming macroscopic creatures, and it lived about a year. The boogie worms lasted a long time, and might still be in there, but I haven't seen any signs of them in over a year. I have seen hydra less than a year ago I think, but they are quite elusive. It's hard to say if they are extinct or are just hiding. I never saw more than three at a time. The amphipods are still going strong though! I would say the ecosystem is at a steady state at this point, with no noticeable changes occurring within the last year. The jar's seal is not perfect as evident by the water level dropping about a centimeter since its closing and algae growing in the seal. The jar has a glass lid with a ground glass seal. It can probably go another decade or so before I'll have to add some new water (from the same source as the original, of course). Anyway, thank you for inspiring this project!
aww! Had one that I had for three years - it had pretty green algae and ostrocods, really cute! But it got thrown out 🥺 I made it with my niece - now it's her birthday soon, and I finally have a cute gift idea (beyond the money, that's the most popular gift when one turns 17 😆)
@jakobraahauge7299 an ecosphere would be a great gift! I recently made one for my mum, it has a glass stone in it with a light underneath, the stone glows when the light is turned on, it looks lovely :)
In optimal conditions, Tubifex eggs can remain viable for several months to even years. Some studies suggest that under ideal circumstances, Tubifex eggs can remain dormant for up to five years or more. During this dormancy period, the eggs are resistant to adverse environmental conditions like desiccation and low oxygen levels. Once conditions become suitable for hatching, such as an increase in temperature and sufficient moisture, the dormant eggs can hatch, releasing larvae that eventually develop into adult Tubifex worms. This ability to remain dormant for extended periods contributes to the resilience and survival of Tubifex worms in various aquatic environments.
Always a good video. I love the updates. Thanks again. You're channel encouraged me 4 years ago to go get an ecosphere and I've been enjoying austricods and other tiny swimmers ever since!! I even got them some duck weed. It's great fun!
@@Hanger1712 As an American, I can definitely confirm that our government might unironically "become interested" if this guy successfully makes an oil layer..... They'd probably bring environmental scientists to study the tiny ecosystem and reverse engineer it as a means to create a cheap renewable source of oil! Think about it. Considering how cheap this process is, it would probably make our government billions!😂
I want to make one where its all stuff selected to work but do it slow. Start with store bought plants that's been cleaned, all the micro fauna and eventually macro fauna. Build it over the course of a year and then close it up.
It never ceases to amaze me how much there is left to learn about some of theses smaller species. An algae bloom creates a bunch of oxygen, and all of a sudden that funky living shag carpet reappears. Thanks for another great video!
I could've watched those little guys tunnelling around for hours, its like ants but way more satisfying somehow, probably cause the material is so soft
Dance you crazy worms!!!! Fun fact: I first learned of tubifex worms when I was a kid in the 1970s, because I had pet newts and that's what I had to feed them. They were freeze dried cubes of Tubifex worms. I used to call them TubiFLEX worms, because I misread the label! 😅
Really puts things into perspective. Even after 6 years enclosed in this jar, nature is still thriving. While its not the same type of ecosystem as originally started, its still living. Even more solidified considering the val is still alive. You really can have nature in aquariums.
I don't know the timing from your videos, but is it possible the move disturbed the ecospheres' sediment layers enough to release byproducts from the anoxic bacteria? Because a disturbance (car or bike travel vibrates a lot on this scale) could have released a bunch of CO2 or sulfites into the water column, which may have affected biodiversity/balance.
It's nice to watch how these closed environments progress. I have two mossariums where i have only plants and nothing moves there, but it's nice to check them occasionally. You made me want to try close a bit of river water and bottom plants and mud in there to see what will live inside.
i used to fill jars with pond/creek water all the time when i was younger so i could see all the things that live in it. i was so happy when i found this channel
My theory is that the population shrunk and was only a very small population in the middle of the jar for some reason. Shrouded in the murky green water 🙂 but Yes, tubifex worms can enter a dormant state when conditions are not favorable, such as during drought or when water levels decrease. They form a protective cyst around themselves and can remain in this state until conditions improve.
Pretty amazing to see the return of boogie worms after 5 years, and so much life popping up. You just never know what will happen with life in jars.🖤🇨🇦
It's been 6 years since the HUUUUUUUUGE spring ecosphere was made?????????? That was the first video that popped up into my front page which made me excited for every new upload. I haven't watched any videos for some 2 years now and it just appeared into my front page again. This ecosphere is like fate. I hope you're doing well Mr. Jar man :-)!
Now I'm curious if there's similar projects to this channel from different parts of the world. It would be interesting to see what other species out there may be taking on the same roles.
Behold, the “Jar Wars”… The Hydra Menace Attack of the Vallisneria Revenge of Crustacean A Huge Hope The Sediment Strikes Back Return of Algae The Copepod Awakens The Last Seed Shrimp The Rise of Tubifex
My ecosphere also had a sudden bloom of tubifex worms after a period of not seeing them. There were so many that they looked like a ball of minced meat.
Tubifex worms are capable of encystment, forming a cyst around their body (or in tubifex case a portion of their body), which allows them to remain dormant for months or even years until conditions are suitable to become active again.
The tiny semi-aquatic humanoid beings in that ecosystem in 5,000 years after this video emerging after the glass withers and decays (they have the rest of the world, in which an ant is as big as a house):
What an interesting thing to collect: closed ecosystems. You never open these jars? Just observing how the tiny world evolves? What an interesting concept.
I’ve heard stories of tubifex worm eggs surviving freeze drying and infecting peoples tanks from feeding their fish with freeze dried worms. The eggs are extremely resilient.
It’s fascinating really. How do organisms die off, and completely new ones just … materialize out of thin air. Unless they were so incredibly tiny that we couldn’t see them before. Either way, very very cool.
I made one about the same size about the same time (inspired by you). Mine finally turned dead and green because it wasn't getting enough light. This morning, I gave it a good shake. We'll see what it looks like tomorrow. Btw, I made a slightly smaller one from another body of water at the same time. It's clear as a bell now but is also dead. I don't want to shake it yet
I know that keeping these ecosystems closed to gas exchange is the point, but I would love to see you try out a "successor" ecosystem with water samples and population seedings from your most successful closed ecosystems to date. It might be possible to preferentially shape a population of species that's more likely to survive in small closed-cycle environments by bringing the stable populations of different ecosystems together.
Wow, these videos really interest me, ever since i was a kid. Stuff like these can contribute to the scientific community and research. I like that you, a random person, can maybe contribute to a great part of our understanding in this world.
It would be very interesting to make a closed environment with measurement devices inside that can tell you all about the levels of nutriënts and co2 etc...
I once did the same thing with a sandwich in the bottom of my school bag. I left it there for two years and would regularly look at the various stages of green, yellow and black that it went through as it mushed around over time. I don’t know if any new species evolved there and it remained a protected habitat until my mother eventually found it and threw it away.
Truly fascinating. There are a couple things I'm not sure about though: Where have the snails been getting their calcium from for the shells? Do they eat the little crustaceans? If so, the Ca cycle might be the limiting factor in the biomass of those species. Another question I had was if the crustaceans that are left will be able to act as both dutritivours and herbivores of the ecosystem efficiently enough to keep the available biomass up, or if it will start to decrease over time? Especially since nothing is preying in them. The smaller ones seem to do better at eating algae, and these big ones seem better at being detritivores.
Can you try something like a few *connected* jars (they need to share a land bridge) where each jar has a different kind of starting ecosystem (like, completely clear water, salt water, swamp-like conditions, just some dry earth, anoxic muck)? I'm curious whether that will yield greater biodiversity and unusual species
Did the jar get really hot? I have actually seen almost this exact ecosystem happen in my container of water outside that got very hot under direct sun, all the string algae died while plants were fine, along with all animals dying except those type of oblong ostracod and an insect larvae, it was actually incredible how they survived it, the water was hot to the touch.
These videos inspire me to get a glass go outside get some dirt, go to the forest nearby and get some water from the lake there and just see what happens. Do you think that it could turn out interesting for a small experiment? What kind of water is most interesting for something like this and where to source the dirt from preferably?
the worms probably reappeared since their eggs are really resistant to environments. the bladder snails probably didn’t manage to survive since the water is likely becoming more and more acidic! (due to the everlasting cycle of decomposition of organic matter, likely releasing tannins and such compounds that lower the water’s pH)
this experiment is not only of biological value, but also of physics value as it demonstrates entropy in action, especially entropy in life, and rather bleakly shows us what the distant future has in store for life on earth
Have you ever considered taking two long-term sealed ecosystems and a couple of years later briefly unsealing them to combine them into one larger ecosphere?
I love Life In Jars. The internet people finally use jars for a good reason.
😂
Im pretty sure those other jars were absolutely filled with life
life in coconuts
Ambatakummaughayaghahggugahgghgghgghhgg
Semenjar
I can't believe it's been 6 years since then... Time truly flies. Let's hope it goes another 6.
Time 🪰
@@w花bTime 🪰🪰*
i know right its crazy
For some reason, time always seems to crawl agonisingly slow for me. Professor Einstein said that time is a relative thing. Why is it that my relative way of looking at time is so painfully slow? I would like time to go fast for me, just once. It feels like I have already lived 8 lifetimes. I hate it.
@@indridcold8433Repetitive action of any sort (something of your interest) + meditation will do justice!
However, life taking forever for you may be because you are doing many different and interesting things in your life.
Difference brings contrast.
Contrast brings perspective.
Perspective brings feelings and perceptions.
😎🙏
I think you are correct. I think your "Boogie Worms" went into a sort of hibernation until the environment could support them again. I love how that's a real-world life cycle.
The size of your jar doesn't matter, it's what you do with it!
It's what's inside that counts?
xD
No, its about the motion in the ocean..
Just make sure it's filled with water.
so you are saying size does'nt matter? lol
@@biteme0973 Unless you're building a school...for ants
you should try making a (probably larger) ecosphere specifically designed to contain multiple distinct microbiomes, to see how much it affects biodiversity
for instance, making it a palludarium, having a corner full of rocks, one with a big piece of wood, etc
That would be really cool. I think even just having different depths would made a significant difference to the biodiversity.
From what I have noticed with my ecosystem is that Boogie worms will, remain dormant for months or even longer. They disappear and reappear every couple of months.
I can't stress enough that I love the ambient park-noise that you have in the background. Truly calming. Thank you
Nice to hear :)
I love your patience in nurturing a new project.
Nurturing new projects lol and then instantly puts them up to die till it finds a balance, couldnt be further from the definition of nurturing
This ecosphere inspired mmy niece and me to make ecospheres a few years ago - one of them we had for three years, but then my father through it out 🥺 it's my niece 17 years birthday very shortly - now I have a great idea for a birthday present! She'll really like it - and I'll give her a beautiful jar to have one in her room! 😄 boogie time, I hope 🕺🏻
Awesome, enjoy it, both of you
@@LifeinJars That I can promise you! 🤗
For your sake, I hope she remembers. Otherwise, she'll be thinking "Yay, a jar of pond water. Uncle has gone off the deep end."
@@deafmusician2 lol
we've made quite a few - she had a period where that was just the best! Some of them grew very old, I saved one. I thought! My father through it out, and both my niece and me were kinda sad about that. She's having a period, where she likes to revisit childhood hobbies and projects - I think it'll hit just the right spot of being a pretty, cute, and interesting thing that's a nice reminder of that childhood that flashed by so fast - I've saved the very nice vintage pickling glass jars we used. I'm kinda the uncle who's only cringe in ways that's not too embarrassing - that's a very big compliment from this young lady 😆 with the other stuff, I'm pretty sure I get this very right, but my goodness a funny image you planted in my head! Will definitely use it in the card 😂
When that amazing beat started I got hyped knowing who was gonna show up,boogie worms!!!
This species of ostracod is one of my favorites. The thing with them is that they absolutely require a dense and healthy layer of mulm to thrive.
Tubifex worms are usual indicators for saprobic index. That probably means that ecological condition in the jar are high value of organic mater and low oxygen level, perfect condition for Tubifex worms XD
All those shrimp shells at the bottom were pretty cool. It reminds me of the shells of the microscopic organisms that make up the Sahara desert sand, but obviously not microscopic.
It would be nice to see a ecosphere that the animal life consisted of mostly shelled organisms just to see if their shells build up over time into a colourful layer. I would give it a try but I’m only getting into the hobby.
I do not know what to say. apart from kurzgesagt, your channel is the only English-language channel that I regularly watch. I click on all your videos immediately, I love that you pull ancient ecospheres out of nothing, you keep your promises, and you give your viewers a lot of knowledge.
Wow thanks
Its always a joy to hear that duck laughing in the background
People are really starting to notice now :)
What?? Three uploads within a month? You’re really on top of your game.
I try :)
6:11
40? That’s impressive! I wonder what he thinks about all the technological advancements in the hobby.
I'm glad to see an update on this jar! This was the jar that inspired me to make my own jar ecosystem back in July 2020, a few months after the two year update video and not too long after I discovered the channel. I originally added a few plants, but none lasted more than a few months. I had duckweed as well which lasted over a year. Stringy algae, much of which is above the water, now serves as the main source of photosynthesis. There are other algae growing on the glass and in the substrate. The substrate hosts some bacterial colonies as well. The water was quite murky for the first year or two before clearing up.
In terms of macroscopic animals, it started out with amphipods, small ostracods, bladder snails, boogie worms, hydra, mites, and a huge leech. The only one that I have seen recently is the amphipods. The mites were the first to go, largely killing themselves by crawling into the jar's seal and getting stuck. The ostracods were surprisingly the second to go! The snails managed to reproduce and a few months in had a large population but went extinct by around a year or so. I suspect the leech was praying on them and the ostracods, as they both went extinct before the leech died. A leech that size would likely have been consuming macroscopic creatures, and it lived about a year. The boogie worms lasted a long time, and might still be in there, but I haven't seen any signs of them in over a year. I have seen hydra less than a year ago I think, but they are quite elusive. It's hard to say if they are extinct or are just hiding. I never saw more than three at a time. The amphipods are still going strong though!
I would say the ecosystem is at a steady state at this point, with no noticeable changes occurring within the last year. The jar's seal is not perfect as evident by the water level dropping about a centimeter since its closing and algae growing in the seal. The jar has a glass lid with a ground glass seal. It can probably go another decade or so before I'll have to add some new water (from the same source as the original, of course). Anyway, thank you for inspiring this project!
One of my ecospheres has recently turned 5 years old, you inspired me to make it :).
I made a Timelapse of it on my channel 👍
aww! Had one that I had for three years - it had pretty green algae and ostrocods, really cute! But it got thrown out 🥺 I made it with my niece - now it's her birthday soon, and I finally have a cute gift idea (beyond the money, that's the most popular gift when one turns 17 😆)
@jakobraahauge7299 an ecosphere would be a great gift!
I recently made one for my mum, it has a glass stone in it with a light underneath, the stone glows when the light is turned on, it looks lovely :)
Glass stone or chrystal?
@daveetc.7399 Well, the proper term is slag glass lol, but I dont know if youtube would auto flag my comment 😂
I found the slag glass on the banks of a river, I guess there must have been a glass factory there in the past :)
In optimal conditions, Tubifex eggs can remain viable for several months to even years. Some studies suggest that under ideal circumstances, Tubifex eggs can remain dormant for up to five years or more. During this dormancy period, the eggs are resistant to adverse environmental conditions like desiccation and low oxygen levels.
Once conditions become suitable for hatching, such as an increase in temperature and sufficient moisture, the dormant eggs can hatch, releasing larvae that eventually develop into adult Tubifex worms. This ability to remain dormant for extended periods contributes to the resilience and survival of Tubifex worms in various aquatic environments.
Always a good video. I love the updates. Thanks again. You're channel encouraged me 4 years ago to go get an ecosphere and I've been enjoying austricods and other tiny swimmers ever since!! I even got them some duck weed. It's great fun!
Nice, glad you enjoy it.
Jars like these are gonna be so important within the next century
life jar
Eh? Why...oh...oh god
another 6 years and you will find oil in one layer
Keep it down, the USA might come
@@Hanger1712 *WE'RE ALL SONS OF THE PATRIOTS NOW!*
A few days after, democracy will be introduced to the population of algae
@@Hanger1712 As an American, I can definitely confirm that our government might unironically "become interested" if this guy successfully makes an oil layer.....
They'd probably bring environmental scientists to study the tiny ecosystem and reverse engineer it as a means to create a cheap renewable source of oil!
Think about it. Considering how cheap this process is, it would probably make our government billions!😂
only on the internet would almost 20 thousand people find such justified interest in a moldy looking jar
god i love technology
I really like hearing the birds in the background during your voiceover! Please never remove them ❤️
I want to make one where its all stuff selected to work but do it slow. Start with store bought plants that's been cleaned, all the micro fauna and eventually macro fauna. Build it over the course of a year and then close it up.
How did i find this
Idk bro but it’s cool
same man
it found you
I love these vids
You and me both bro
Your channel inspired me to make an ecosphere during the pandemic, and four years later, it's still kicking!
It never ceases to amaze me how much there is left to learn about some of theses smaller species. An algae bloom creates a bunch of oxygen, and all of a sudden that funky living shag carpet reappears. Thanks for another great video!
Haha yeah it's really fascinating
I could've watched those little guys tunnelling around for hours, its like ants but way more satisfying somehow, probably cause the material is so soft
That music with the worms dancing absolutely made my week ❤
Dance you crazy worms!!!! Fun fact: I first learned of tubifex worms when I was a kid in the 1970s, because I had pet newts and that's what I had to feed them. They were freeze dried cubes of Tubifex worms. I used to call them TubiFLEX worms, because I misread the label! 😅
Haha!
Really puts things into perspective. Even after 6 years enclosed in this jar, nature is still thriving. While its not the same type of ecosystem as originally started, its still living. Even more solidified considering the val is still alive.
You really can have nature in aquariums.
I loved the boogie worm reveal so much! Thanks for selecting the shrimp footage like you did!
I don't know the timing from your videos, but is it possible the move disturbed the ecospheres' sediment layers enough to release byproducts from the anoxic bacteria? Because a disturbance (car or bike travel vibrates a lot on this scale) could have released a bunch of CO2 or sulfites into the water column, which may have affected biodiversity/balance.
Yes that might be possible
I would love to see a super time lapse of one of these
It's nice to watch how these closed environments progress. I have two mossariums where i have only plants and nothing moves there, but it's nice to check them occasionally. You made me want to try close a bit of river water and bottom plants and mud in there to see what will live inside.
i used to fill jars with pond/creek water all the time when i was younger so i could see all the things that live in it. i was so happy when i found this channel
My favorite part is when the ostracod say "it's ostracodding time" and ostracoded everywhere
My theory is that the population shrunk and was only a very small population in the middle of the jar for some reason. Shrouded in the murky green water 🙂 but Yes, tubifex worms can enter a dormant state when conditions are not favorable, such as during drought or when water levels decrease. They form a protective cyst around themselves and can remain in this state until conditions improve.
I have been watching this channel from the start and I have a few ecosystems of my own. I love to see these updates keep it up!
Pretty amazing to see the return of boogie worms after 5 years, and so much life popping up. You just never know what will happen with life in jars.🖤🇨🇦
Very true!
Everyone: "Were you killed?"
Boogie Worms: "Sadly yes, but I lived"
I wonder how it smells, and what would happen if you drink a mouthful?
I think it doesn't really smell, I also think you'd be fine. (I drank one before and made a video about it)
It's been 6 years since the HUUUUUUUUGE spring ecosphere was made?????????? That was the first video that popped up into my front page which made me excited for every new upload. I haven't watched any videos for some 2 years now and it just appeared into my front page again. This ecosphere is like fate. I hope you're doing well Mr. Jar man :-)!
Fascinating! I have an ecosphere I made in 2019 inspired by this channel and it has gone through many a life cycle.
Now I'm curious if there's similar projects to this channel from different parts of the world. It would be interesting to see what other species out there may be taking on the same roles.
Behold, the “Jar Wars”…
The Hydra Menace
Attack of the Vallisneria
Revenge of Crustacean
A Huge Hope
The Sediment Strikes Back
Return of Algae
The Copepod Awakens
The Last Seed Shrimp
The Rise of Tubifex
It looks like a little Cthulhu monster rising from the depths in there. Love it.
My ecosphere also had a sudden bloom of tubifex worms after a period of not seeing them. There were so many that they looked like a ball of minced meat.
Ill never be able to walk into a body of water again without thinking of those worms possibly under my feet 😱😭
6 years! Very impressive! 🌱
the little guys burrowing in the dirt at the bottom of the jar are cute! i want to keep one as a pet lol
Really cool seeing large ostracods vs the small dots for once
I remember this from years ago. Crazy to see it still thriving
Tubifex worms are capable of encystment, forming a cyst around their body (or in tubifex case a portion of their body), which allows them to remain dormant for months or even years until conditions are suitable to become active again.
Cool!
6 years, wow. Thank you for compacting it for us to 15 minutes.
The tiny semi-aquatic humanoid beings in that ecosystem in 5,000 years after this video emerging after the glass withers and decays (they have the rest of the world, in which an ant is as big as a house):
We’re blessed to have Life in Jars.
I've only ever made one aquatic ecosphere, but ostracods went extinct in mine after only a few months. It's 4 years old now.
It's always nice to see the boogie worms make a comeback!
What an interesting thing to collect: closed ecosystems.
You never open these jars? Just observing how the tiny world evolves?
What an interesting concept.
I’ve heard stories of tubifex worm eggs surviving freeze drying and infecting peoples tanks from feeding their fish with freeze dried worms. The eggs are extremely resilient.
Been following for years now, thanks for educational and enjoyable content. Much love
It’s fascinating really. How do organisms die off, and completely new ones just … materialize out of thin air. Unless they were so incredibly tiny that we couldn’t see them before. Either way, very very cool.
I'd love to build a fantastic one of these with carefully planned life that can sustain each other and keep it looking pretty too
It was only one time guys, one TIMEE, and now everyone calls me life in a jar Martin
I made one about the same size about the same time (inspired by you). Mine finally turned dead and green because it wasn't getting enough light. This morning, I gave it a good shake. We'll see what it looks like tomorrow.
Btw, I made a slightly smaller one from another body of water at the same time. It's clear as a bell now but is also dead. I don't want to shake it yet
I know that keeping these ecosystems closed to gas exchange is the point, but I would love to see you try out a "successor" ecosystem with water samples and population seedings from your most successful closed ecosystems to date. It might be possible to preferentially shape a population of species that's more likely to survive in small closed-cycle environments by bringing the stable populations of different ecosystems together.
Interesting idea!
Wow, these videos really interest me, ever since i was a kid. Stuff like these can contribute to the scientific community and research. I like that you, a random person, can maybe contribute to a great part of our understanding in this world.
I’m actually amazed that there is still life in there.
It would be very interesting to make a closed environment with measurement devices inside that can tell you all about the levels of nutriënts and co2 etc...
I once did the same thing with a sandwich in the bottom of my school bag. I left it there for two years and would regularly look at the various stages of green, yellow and black that it went through as it mushed around over time. I don’t know if any new species evolved there and it remained a protected habitat until my mother eventually found it and threw it away.
Can’t wait to see this after 20 years. I wonder if new species will evolve.
you should try to get a permanent underwater camera in the larger tanks... use aquarium sealant to plug the holes needed for the wires
the orange jelly like substance the top of the jar 4:46 could be colonial microorganisms or bacteria
Truly fascinating. There are a couple things I'm not sure about though:
Where have the snails been getting their calcium from for the shells? Do they eat the little crustaceans? If so, the Ca cycle might be the limiting factor in the biomass of those species. Another question I had was if the crustaceans that are left will be able to act as both dutritivours and herbivores of the ecosystem efficiently enough to keep the available biomass up, or if it will start to decrease over time? Especially since nothing is preying in them. The smaller ones seem to do better at eating algae, and these big ones seem better at being detritivores.
Can you try something like a few *connected* jars (they need to share a land bridge) where each jar has a different kind of starting ecosystem (like, completely clear water, salt water, swamp-like conditions, just some dry earth, anoxic muck)?
I'm curious whether that will yield greater biodiversity and unusual species
Love listening to the parakeets in the background.
This is gonna be crazy in a post apocalyptic worlds when a survivor finds this lab
It must be a fascinating hobby to create miniature ecosystems inside recipients like jars.😮😮
Did the jar get really hot? I have actually seen almost this exact ecosystem happen in my container of water outside that got very hot under direct sun, all the string algae died while plants were fine, along with all animals dying except those type of oblong ostracod and an insect larvae, it was actually incredible how they survived it, the water was hot to the touch.
These videos inspire me to get a glass go outside get some dirt, go to the forest nearby and get some water from the lake there and just see what happens. Do you think that it could turn out interesting for a small experiment?
What kind of water is most interesting for something like this and where to source the dirt from preferably?
It could definitely be interesting! Go for it!
Life in jars is much better than jars in life 🙃
The plant in the jar being genetically 40+ is so cool
Nerd factor is high and I like it !😆
Simply fascinating.
the worms probably reappeared since their eggs are really resistant to environments. the bladder snails probably didn’t manage to survive since the water is likely becoming more and more acidic! (due to the everlasting cycle of decomposition of organic matter, likely releasing tannins and such compounds that lower the water’s pH)
So cool to witness this 6 years later!
crazy how resilient life is
They say if you Drink that during a Eclipse , You will Gain Super PoWeerZz
I like your videos, thank you for making them
Thanks for watching them!
this experiment is not only of biological value, but also of physics value as it demonstrates entropy in action, especially entropy in life, and rather bleakly shows us what the distant future has in store for life on earth
the boogie worms will never leave. they’re always here, and there, and over there too!
Have you ever considered taking two long-term sealed ecosystems and a couple of years later briefly unsealing them to combine them into one larger ecosphere?
make one where its separated in half, one side dirt/soil one side water, add small holes in the partition.
Another awesome educational experience thanks bro
Plot twist, we don’t exist in a simulation we exist in a closed ecosystem in a jar on the desk of @LifeInJars
Always fascinating - thanks a lot for sharing this!
anytime there are boogie worms I have faith disco isn't dead
Jesus boogie worms. 😅