I've been watching a few of your videos tonight, and I keep being reminded of one time I had a beer and I left the bottle out, and the next day I noticed a bunch of fruit flies in it, so I sealed it up, and they lived in there for several generations, and I can't help thinking of several generations of fruit flies living their entire lives completely drunk because the only food they have is beer. It was interesting to see the larvae crawling around inside there though.
I noticed that you filled the first jar on a snowy day, and the second on a warmer day. This might be why you had more animal life in the first jar. Colder water holds more (unbonded) oxygen, which would then be trapped within the jar. Because of this cold water also happens to have more animal life in general. Another theory is that the cold had led to many species to "hibernate" in the river/lakebed, which you scooped up with the mud. Either way a sufficiently sized algal colony should be capable of recycling as much oxygen as most plants, but require fewer nutrients. (Which is probably why your plants are dying FYI.)
*pushes up glasses* "ahem, actually, i noticed that... " Come on man, let the guy who has been working for 2 years to do something that he enjoys have his fun without harrassment. Be nice kid
@@TheEnderKitty1 Harassment? Do you hate science? He's forming a hypothesis and letting the author know. Now if he runs the experiment again, or someone else decides to try, they will have more ideas. Also since we're being assholes, apparently, the right way to do this experiment is to get one large bucket and mix it all together, then take your samples from the exact same bucket. This ensures the same bacteria, animals, plants, etc... in each sample. Then you can change whatever variable you want.
I did this same science experiment when I was grade 6, my school principal only gave me a 60% grade. I was actually trying to prove that the local open body of water in my home town was not as clean as it should be. I think he was not as informed as he should have been to be "judging" the science fair. Story of my life.
Yes you failed at it because you could not actually have a large enough “clean environment” to be used as a comparison. Downsizing down to jar does the exact opposite because you can control it much easier.
I stumbled upon your channel this morning and within the 12 hours that have passed, I've become a HUGE fan and even sent videos to my friends and Instagram. your content makes me laugh and I never thought a video on tiny specks of jiggly worms n crustaceans could bring me so much joy PLUS educate me at the same time!! your voice n dry sense of humor kills me too hahaha in this day and age i really appreciate seeing such wholesome n heartwarming content on the internet!!
We currently own a pond that's been inhabited by fishes for almost a year by now. Seeing this video had us curious about what other organisms live there. We'll basically try this as well.
This reminds me of a science project from middle school. As a class, we had to make something like this, make a small jar ecosystem in the course of a week and then examine a sample under a microscope. The twist was that we would be exchanging jars and observing someone else's. As it turned out, my jar had the largest and most interesting variety of creatures while the one I got was... well, pretty much devoid of any life. I was so annoyed, especially since my classmate got all the attention for the 'work' I had done...
I love this channel. It provides a new perspective. The little creatures of no significance can be something so interesting. EDIT: If you read this, I suggest that you make a time lapse video or a stream of a jar. :)
That's amazing that these systems are over two years old. I just scooped up my own sample including many small round leaved plants, a small fish, and various strange other things. Also has another type of plant plus a small rotten log.
I have been enjoying the videos for about 4 months. I had to try it myself, so I made a natural ecosphere from a northern Wisconsin lake on November 4, just before the winter freeze. I made one adjustment. I placed the jar next to my AeroGarden which provides 18 hours of light. This simulates summer all year long. All the little creatures are doing good, except for the mosquito larvae. Its adult flight was short lived. Thank you for ecosphere jar experiments!
I'm glad this video popped up today......I forgot I made an ecosystem 8 months ago. Can't wait to go home and check it. My life has been busy but can't believe I forgot about it!
I am very happy with your vids! This is so far the only channel I have found that goes into depth regarding the development of these tanks. I have a feeling that most builds you find online are only pretty for a few weeks. I hope to see more content of your projects in the future! Chears
I stumbled across one of your videos in my feed and to be honest clicked on it because I wanted to find out why someone would keep a dirty jar of water. Now I find myself utterly fascinated by your videos and look forward to viewing all the past and future ones.
I think I have the same two species or similar ones of ostracods in my planted jar, the small ones are apparently present everywhere and larger elongated one can't swim. I love watching them do their thing in their cute little clam shells. Gonna try to collect more species of them cause I love them so much.
I was so surprised to learn how young you are! The way you speak is very mature and I like your sense of humor too. I'm not an ecosphere hobbist, I just enjoy watching your videos and watching you experiment and discover things.
This is so weirdly interesting :-) I just wish you would have collected 10 jars on the same day, planted half, left half "natural"...this would have eliminated many of the random variables and allowed for better comparison. But nevermind...jars for 2 years? Damn nice!
This is why my fish tanks require virtually no maintenance. I see people dumping chemicals and all sorts of garbage into their tanks. Constantly messing with them. Constantly changing filters, ext. My fish tanks almost never get 'cleaned' so to speak. I top off the water from time to time. That is all. The tank on my desk has not been cleaned or had the filter messed within a year and a half. It has 1 male beta, 2 ottos, and cherry shrimp. I have low light plants and moss, waterlogged driftwood, and natural clay and sand substrate. My timer for both light and heaters are set to mimic nature (longer/shorter days and temperatures). It goes through natural die-offs a bit in winter, and I seldom need to feed my beta because he eats baby shrimp and mine breed alot. The water is almost always clear and I only have algae when the tank goes through a change in the cycle such as entering 'winter' or in 'spring' with the increase in temperature and light. I do not remove dead plant matter. It breaks down naturally.
Thanks for another great video! You inspired me to make my own ecojars, so last October I made three - two marine, one freshwater. The water in both of the marine has gone green, and the freshwater jar is looking a bit murky. There were plants in all of them but the only surviving plant from all of them is some oxygenating pond weed in the freshwater jar. I think I'm putting too much substrate in - looking at your videos you hardly put any in at all whereas mine are a bout a quarter substrate. It was cool watching marine worms tunneling, but I'm guessing they've died now. I'm going to clean the marine jars out and give them another go I think, the freshwater one I will keep going as there is still stuff happening in that one.
I have a question not really related to the video. I made an ecosphere from a man made pond, but the pond was filled with rocks and stones. So I grabbed dirt from a puddle near by rather than filling the jar with rocks. I took the jar, sealed it and left it by my window and it survived for about a week. It’s been about 4-5 months now and there seems to be no life but algae. Should I I give up on this ecosphere? And if making another one from the same pond should I use the rocks in side instead of dirt?
Nice video! I also made a closed ecosphere, i putted in freshwater isopods. They are doing great atm. I did a video about it. Hopefully they will do well. I will do updates. Bit your video helped a lot! Its fanastic! 👍👍
Hey I've got an idea for you, CARNIVOROUS PLANTS. There are interesting aquatic carnivorous plants like all the different species of bladderworts, some of which are quite hardy and easy to grow, like the U.gibba, I think it could lead to an interesting unique dynamic.
Nature seems dynamo, this notion of equilibrium seems like a human construct. How remarkable that we seem to be the most rapid change in the history of life on Earth, mankind is the fastest of all the great dyings that we know of. Perhaps we should pay more attention to life in jars! ♥️
In the unplanted ecosystem you had more decaying matter, the dead leaf, which to decay takes up O2 for the bacteria to digest it for nutrients. I wonder if you'd added a dead leaf to the planted tank as well what would have happened?
Last year i made my first ecosphere (inspired by you). I took a jar, filled it with water from a pond nearby and it looked great. However i went on vacation for two weeks right after. During that time, we had 40 degrees Celsius at home so when i came everything was dead and ruined. Am i right by assuming it was the high temperature that killed it? I didnt do anything to it (since i was on vacation).
@@BroBurg445 kind of. I do have some sun blocking thingy (so my neighbors can't look through the windows). Im not talking about cardigans tho. Some things you put directly on the windows. Well anyways, it was basically direct sunlight but also not haha.
Love your channel! I was inspired to make my own ecosphere. Do you have recommendations on what kind of equipment I should use to view the tiny critters?
Hey when you showed the big ostracods you called them clam shrimps, im a little confused because when i searched the name the wiki shows an animal wich is taxed as a branchiopoda, so you may have a close evolutionary relative of the fairy shrimp in your ecosphere
I'm very curious what would happen if you put these ecospheres under a UV light set to ideal summer light levels and intervals! do you think they would continue to thrive as if it were summer?
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This video took 4 solid days to finish but I think the end product is worth it. Happy new year!
Thanks for making all of these videos. Absolutely love them all! Just got done binging all of them!
Happy New Year to you too!
i think it took you 2 year
Hey life in jars! We made a discord for ecoshpheres, if you join it would make our day :) discord.gg/8fjbpcw
it is!
This channel turns creatures that otherwise would be a nuisance into things of beauty.
They shouldn't be overlooked
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@@LifeinJars can you put me in a jar so people stop overlooking me
@@nr-zr5cl Sorry bro, everyone will smell the desperation even when you are in the jar
@@NabPunk HAHA SUCKER, you took the bait! Prepare to be trolled. You just noticed me.
I've been watching a few of your videos tonight, and I keep being reminded of one time I had a beer and I left the bottle out, and the next day I noticed a bunch of fruit flies in it, so I sealed it up, and they lived in there for several generations, and I can't help thinking of several generations of fruit flies living their entire lives completely drunk because the only food they have is beer. It was interesting to see the larvae crawling around inside there though.
kinda cool, kinda gross! haha
I noticed that you filled the first jar on a snowy day, and the second on a warmer day. This might be why you had more animal life in the first jar. Colder water holds more (unbonded) oxygen, which would then be trapped within the jar. Because of this cold water also happens to have more animal life in general.
Another theory is that the cold had led to many species to "hibernate" in the river/lakebed, which you scooped up with the mud.
Either way a sufficiently sized algal colony should be capable of recycling as much oxygen as most plants, but require fewer nutrients. (Which is probably why your plants are dying FYI.)
@ADEBISI ADEBISI Who dropped you as a baby?
@ADEBISI ADEBISI bruv you got some serious problems
*pushes up glasses* "ahem, actually, i noticed that... "
Come on man, let the guy who has been working for 2 years to do something that he enjoys have his fun without harrassment. Be nice kid
@@TheEnderKitty1 Harassment? Do you hate science? He's forming a hypothesis and letting the author know. Now if he runs the experiment again, or someone else decides to try, they will have more ideas.
Also since we're being assholes, apparently, the right way to do this experiment is to get one large bucket and mix it all together, then take your samples from the exact same bucket. This ensures the same bacteria, animals, plants, etc... in each sample. Then you can change whatever variable you want.
@ADEBISI ADEBISI Daddy issues? Explains a lot.
I did this same science experiment when I was grade 6, my school principal only gave me a 60% grade. I was actually trying to prove that the local open body of water in my home town was not as clean as it should be. I think he was not as informed as he should have been to be "judging" the science fair. Story of my life.
Lynx Integra 😂 www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/crying-laughing-emoji
You should have appealed bro
Yes you failed at it because you could not actually have a large enough “clean environment” to be used as a comparison. Downsizing down to jar does the exact opposite because you can control it much easier.
@@jbarlak You are wrong. And why are you nit picking over a 10 year olds Science project?.you that small and insecure?
Beverly Anne it’s funny you need to bring up something from your past to make people feel sorry for your failure
The fact that its been 2 years physically made me jump
It's totally crazy
When are you going to get ocean life
I really appreciate the music, it’s very therapeutic and adds to the already great content you have. Thank you
From a tiny channel to a VERY BIG CHANNEL
And you watched it all happen
@@LifeinJars It is well deserved, your content is high quality :-)
I stumbled upon your channel this morning and within the 12 hours that have passed, I've become a HUGE fan and even sent videos to my friends and Instagram. your content makes me laugh and I never thought a video on tiny specks of jiggly worms n crustaceans could bring me so much joy PLUS educate me at the same time!! your voice n dry sense of humor kills me too hahaha in this day and age i really appreciate seeing such wholesome n heartwarming content on the internet!!
Thank you so much!
Can't wait to make some of these for myself, you have gotten me hooked on what seems to be an amazing niche hobby!
Came from Atomic Shrip's Channel, binging your videos and loving the content.
Just saying but the fact you collected the water in 2 very different conditions (frosty/sunny) would play a huge role
you have a really unique style. thanks for making these videos, love from Australia 🦀
I had a rough day but this made it way better than I was expecting it too so thank you for doin what you do
We currently own a pond that's been inhabited by fishes for almost a year by now. Seeing this video had us curious about what other organisms live there. We'll basically try this as well.
This reminds me of a science project from middle school. As a class, we had to make something like this, make a small jar ecosystem in the course of a week and then examine a sample under a microscope. The twist was that we would be exchanging jars and observing someone else's.
As it turned out, my jar had the largest and most interesting variety of creatures while the one I got was... well, pretty much devoid of any life. I was so annoyed, especially since my classmate got all the attention for the 'work' I had done...
[Everyone liked that.]
Your videos are so interesting to watch and i love your sense of humor
Thanks!
I love this channel. It provides a new perspective. The little creatures of no significance can be something so interesting. EDIT: If you read this, I suggest that you make a time lapse video or a stream of a jar. :)
I love that they are closed ecosystems now, at least in the title, it’s much truer to the real experiments and what you are trying to achieve
Yay thanks for another upload! Really cool how the two were so misaligned in seasons, that is really weird but fascinating!
mmm yes swimming circles, such beauty and elegance!
I love these videos, they’re so relaxing, my favorite thing is to watch before I go to sleep.
That's amazing that these systems are over two years old. I just scooped up my own sample including many small round leaved plants, a small fish, and various strange other things. Also has another type of plant plus a small rotten log.
Sounds cool, though I'd take the fish out, they don't do well in closed ecosystems.
@@LifeinJars Gotcha
Awesome have fun
I have been enjoying the videos for about 4 months. I had to try it myself, so I made a natural ecosphere from a northern Wisconsin lake on November 4, just before the winter freeze. I made one adjustment. I placed the jar next to my AeroGarden which provides 18 hours of light. This simulates summer all year long. All the little creatures are doing good, except for the mosquito larvae. Its adult flight was short lived. Thank you for ecosphere jar experiments!
That's awesome. How did that work out? I just started mine. Florida freshwater system with fish and snails, plus other stuff. Plants too.
Great video LIJ, these are one of my favorite jars on this channel
Just got my first macro “lense” filter! Hopefully I can get some decent shots!
I'm glad this video popped up today......I forgot I made an ecosystem 8 months ago. Can't wait to go home and check it. My life has been busy but can't believe I forgot about it!
This is the best channel I ever found on TH-cam
Very Interesting how these turned out
Love the video, and it's amazing to see the growth and the difference between the two
So happy to see a new vid!
Nice to hear
I am very happy with your vids! This is so far the only channel I have found that goes into depth regarding the development of these tanks. I have a feeling that most builds you find online are only pretty for a few weeks. I hope to see more content of your projects in the future! Chears
Thanks Tim!
I used to drink lake, river, and pond water when I was younger lol
So many regrets Haha
HAHAHA THEY WILL DIE IN YOUR STOMACH BUT THEY WILL LIVE IN YOUR MOUTH
Ahaha when's your funeral-
I think we ingest way nastier and harmful stuff from our industrialized food anyways.
I stumbled across one of your videos in my feed and to be honest clicked on it because I wanted to find out why someone would keep a dirty jar of water. Now I find myself utterly fascinated by your videos and look forward to viewing all the past and future ones.
Very nice Comparison and Explanation , Keep up the good work👍👍👍👍👍
i would have never known how many organisms are in water if it weren't for him
In the next video, LiJ drinks each bottle and shows what it does to his stomach
@@bewbtube9607 :(
Boogie worms! Perfect! They are fabulous.
I think I have the same two species or similar ones of ostracods in my planted jar, the small ones are apparently present everywhere and larger elongated one can't swim. I love watching them do their thing in their cute little clam shells. Gonna try to collect more species of them cause I love them so much.
7:25 Paul Atreides mounts a sand worm
xD
Thank you for these great videos! I'm gonna make my own when spring comes because of your fantastic work.
Love it, really wish mine had some clam shrimp. That merch link is busted BTW.
Thanks for the heads up
I very much appreciate the work and time you put into this project,shows how patient you are. : )
I started doing the same thing with local bodies of water because you of :) so fun and interesting to watch
I was so surprised to learn how young you are! The way you speak is very mature and I like your sense of humor too. I'm not an ecosphere hobbist, I just enjoy watching your videos and watching you experiment and discover things.
I love your vids and wont stop loving them THANK YOU
My favorite pastime and antidepressant is to get drunk or high (it's legal here in Canada so y'all can chill) and watch this channel 👌
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also in the country where he is from
Super cool. Who knew they would turn out differently b
This is so weirdly interesting :-) I just wish you would have collected 10 jars on the same day, planted half, left half "natural"...this would have eliminated many of the random variables and allowed for better comparison. But nevermind...jars for 2 years? Damn nice!
It's 2018 since I watched this channel glad to be back
Very beautiful 😍👍
Good to have another video! 👍
Great Eco system's!!
Thank you
That plant makes so much difference
As always, excellent stuff.
Thanks Charlie
This is why my fish tanks require virtually no maintenance. I see people dumping chemicals and all sorts of garbage into their tanks. Constantly messing with them. Constantly changing filters, ext. My fish tanks almost never get 'cleaned' so to speak. I top off the water from time to time. That is all. The tank on my desk has not been cleaned or had the filter messed within a year and a half. It has 1 male beta, 2 ottos, and cherry shrimp. I have low light plants and moss, waterlogged driftwood, and natural clay and sand substrate. My timer for both light and heaters are set to mimic nature (longer/shorter days and temperatures). It goes through natural die-offs a bit in winter, and I seldom need to feed my beta because he eats baby shrimp and mine breed alot. The water is almost always clear and I only have algae when the tank goes through a change in the cycle such as entering 'winter' or in 'spring' with the increase in temperature and light. I do not remove dead plant matter. It breaks down naturally.
Why is this so fascinating?
I've wondered the same thing
Thanks for another great video! You inspired me to make my own ecojars, so last October I made three - two marine, one freshwater. The water in both of the marine has gone green, and the freshwater jar is looking a bit murky. There were plants in all of them but the only surviving plant from all of them is some oxygenating pond weed in the freshwater jar. I think I'm putting too much substrate in - looking at your videos you hardly put any in at all whereas mine are a bout a quarter substrate. It was cool watching marine worms tunneling, but I'm guessing they've died now. I'm going to clean the marine jars out and give them another go I think, the freshwater one I will keep going as there is still stuff happening in that one.
Love your channel! Keep up the great content!
This is so relaxing to watch !
TH-cam thank you for bring me here!! I love this video
I have a question not really related to the video. I made an ecosphere from a man made pond, but the pond was filled with rocks and stones. So I grabbed dirt from a puddle near by rather than filling the jar with rocks. I took the jar, sealed it and left it by my window and it survived for about a week. It’s been about 4-5 months now and there seems to be no life but algae. Should I I give up on this ecosphere? And if making another one from the same pond should I use the rocks in side instead of dirt?
Would be interesting seeing a Journey to the Micro Cosmos type video on each of these macro creatures.
They all look super weird
True
Thank you for telling us something.
I wish people like you may save the earth
That’s actually very amazing thank you for sharing this with us
thank you for this update
Thanks for watching
do you soak the jars for the whole day or for only a period of time?
Did the plant you used come from the pond or an aquarium supply store?
Pond
I would be really curious to see what diversity would remain in a similar set up that is fed and filtered (ie a sponge filter).
Nice video! I also made a closed ecosphere, i putted in freshwater isopods. They are doing great atm. I did a video about it. Hopefully they will do well. I will do updates. Bit your video helped a lot! Its fanastic! 👍👍
Can we drink the water?
you can, but you shouldnt
Probably safer than your town supply.
After 2 years of watching your videos you’d think I already made an ecosystem myself. Truth is, I still haven’t. It’s about time!
Gigachad of Jars released another video featuring jars
Hey I've got an idea for you, CARNIVOROUS PLANTS. There are interesting aquatic carnivorous plants like all the different species of bladderworts, some of which are quite hardy and easy to grow, like the U.gibba, I think it could lead to an interesting unique dynamic.
Well... Dying IS approaching the perfectly balanced state xD
Very good
I made my own now from just watching your channel, I did get a damselfly nymph in mine.
Why did youtube only give this video to me now? Love it
Nature seems dynamo, this notion of equilibrium seems like a human construct. How remarkable that we seem to be the most rapid change in the history of life on Earth, mankind is the fastest of all the great dyings that we know of. Perhaps we should pay more attention to life in jars! ♥️
In the unplanted ecosystem you had more decaying matter, the dead leaf, which to decay takes up O2 for the bacteria to digest it for nutrients. I wonder if you'd added a dead leaf to the planted tank as well what would have happened?
This looks AMAZING!🥰❤🌟
wonder what would happen if you added a smaller plant species more suited for the jar like maybe dwarf hairgrass or crypto parva
Last year i made my first ecosphere (inspired by you). I took a jar, filled it with water from a pond nearby and it looked great. However i went on vacation for two weeks right after. During that time, we had 40 degrees Celsius at home so when i came everything was dead and ruined. Am i right by assuming it was the high temperature that killed it? I didnt do anything to it (since i was on vacation).
Was it in direct sunlight?
@@BroBurg445 kind of. I do have some sun blocking thingy (so my neighbors can't look through the windows). Im not talking about cardigans tho. Some things you put directly on the windows. Well anyways, it was basically direct sunlight but also not haha.
What a cool dude!
Hello. I would like to know what is your setup for recording .
At last... I was waiting for this video for so long. :)
My planted ecosphere I made 6 months ago is still going. The snails have multiplied. Not many ostracods now.
Magnificent!
:)
Kid I have no idea where you came from, but just know you are my new favorite channel
He is dutch
YOU HAVE MERCH NOW? HECK YES!
😎
You're very calm and weird and I like that because I'm like that.
Love your channel! I was inspired to make my own ecosphere. Do you have recommendations on what kind of equipment I should use to view the tiny critters?
Thanks for the Bladder Snail footage
Hey when you showed the big ostracods you called them clam shrimps, im a little confused because when i searched the name the wiki shows an animal wich is taxed as a branchiopoda, so you may have a close evolutionary relative of the fairy shrimp in your ecosphere
love the crab shirt
I'm very curious what would happen if you put these ecospheres under a UV light set to ideal summer light levels and intervals! do you think they would continue to thrive as if it were summer?
Love this channel
Interesting stuff.
Did you open the jars regularly.. And did you change water?? Or the jars were closed for two years
the jars remained closed the entire time.
you have liquid water in January?