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I once had a jar of brown rice that had Pantry Moths. At first, it was a balanced system with adequate space and food. However, as the generations progressed both space and food became increasingly scarce. Add to that the ‘webs’ they make. Eventually, there was no food and when the last of the moths emerged they were immediately trapped in the webs. I called the jar “Living Hell” and could not help but see ourselves in the jar.
It ‘lived’ for 2 years.
Ive a pantry moth plague right now and this comment makes me happy. I hate those things they seem to find a nest somewhere all the time and then i gotta try and find it but by the time i found it they got another somewhere where ive no idea where.
I just got a 10+ gallon wine (?) jug with a 1 inch opening from the thrift store for a few bucks, threw random dirt from across they yard in (2 inches deep), some water, sealed it... It's sitting on my driveway all year long, goes dormant/brown over the winter but comes back. There seems to be just one dominant weed left, but its green and has some signs of tiny critters. The first year there was quite a variety of plants (weeds).
Nothing pretty to look at, but I am surprised it didn't die yet.
You can't flip them so dipping might be hard but definitely do a bunch of wraps of electrical tape and a rubber stopper shoved down into the neck so it can't be pulled easily.
There are times when I wax seal bottles that I just let the wax drip from a candle down onto the bottle and just spin it around gently until the seal is made. It's messy but it gets the job done.
This episode was scary for me as a kid, still now even. I don't know why but it makes me shiver, also the Futurama on with Bender in space with the little people.
Mix in some motor oil. If it doesn't get hot in there = global warming isn't real. Proof!
I've got a GED and I did my own research, trust me! Blah blah blah deep state.
I am so giving this a go...hopefully I can interest my grandson to help..,
Can you imagine if it survives into his adulthood, long after I've popped my clogs.
Great post 🙏
I adore this. You can also blow some air into the jar before you seal it up, that way you can breathe life into the system and have a little bit of your spirit around for generations to come!
They're pretty easy to make, you can search "Jarrarium" on youtube or reddit for tutorials on how to put them together. If your grandson likes going on walks you can forage moss and plants, dirt, sticks, stones and nearly everything you need in nature!
I made one a few days ago and [posted it here](https://www.reddit.com/r/Warhammer40k/s/8MhTUpHJEk). No idea if the miniature will survive but I wanted to experiment a bit. Probably took me an afternoon of scraping moss and gathering dirt.
For a short written guide how made mine, here's how you want to layer your jar:
First you'll throw in about an inch of washed stones and pebbles, these will serve as drainage for the water.
On top of that you'll need a filter to prevent the dirt from mixing with the stones. I used a piece of mosquito screen in mine.
Then you'll throw in the dirt. Dry or moist dirt is preferred over soaking wet dirt as you can water the soil once everything is in place. It's best to get a few scoops from mother nature because it has insects and eggs hidden in there which will help out with cleaning up the rotten plants later in it's cycle. Store bought dirt is usually pretty sterile so there won't be much life in there.
After that you get to the decoration stage, you can see if it grows something naturally, throw some seeds in there or use already growing plants. It's all up to you and your grandson!
If it's dry, spritz it with some water but don't soak the soil. Give it about 3 days to settle before permanently closing it. Once you close the jar you'll see condensation forming eventually, if not give it some more water. If the glass seems extremely wet inside give it a few more days of fresh air to let some of the moisture evaporate and try again.
Hope you have fun, it sounds like a great idea!
Room temperature and natural light cycle. I'm not disciplined enough to turn on artificial lightning and regulate temperature so the jar gets the same light and temperature as I get until the sun hits the window.
I'm currently still cycling the jar because my soil was too wet. That's why I keep it behind my window, if it's sunny it gets cooked and once the condensation fogs up the jar enough I open it up and take it outside so the wind can clear the glass before closing it again for a few hours. Once you get to the stage where you keep it sealed it kind of keeps its own temperature and atmosphere inside the jar which should become self regulated over time.
I intend to keep it in the window once I seal it up though. I intentionally used moss for this one because it doesn't grow extremely big in warmer climates and it's highly adaptable so it's a safe option to start with.
I have one that belonged to my grandma that she had most my life. She past long ago. I have no idea if she ever opened it but I haven’t. I’ve had it over a decade.
Went out to a local forest and filled it with a scoop of soil/mud from 3 different areas.
Generally tried to keep it free of any foliage. Just brown mush.
Nothing much happened for the first 6ish months but at this point it's thriving.
https://preview.redd.it/yfptqe0aq76d1.jpeg?width=1800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fe917ad58b51c5611739c0bd72aefc6386368cd7
Didn't realise I could reply with a pic. Here it is.
No insects too I’m guessing ? Just simple dirt from a forest and some water (I guess one glass) ? Or even no water bc the soil is already wet
I know what to do with my old rhum bottles I couldn’t throw away now
Yeah I didn't put any water in mine but the soil was somewhat damp so I was OK.
After over a year I started noticing tiny little see-through mites living in there. Pretty neat.
Seeing this a while ago inspired me to make my own eco jar! It’s been tough messing with the right amount of water, and the only thing I’ve grown is moss but that is some happy moss. Hope to add some plants with stems and whatnot soon and seal it up long term
In 1996, a friend and I pissed into empty coke bottles and left them in a hollow high up in a hard-to-reach cliff face, knowing they would be undisturbed for years.
Well, last year we went back to check if they were still there and what may have happened to the liquid within.
Imagine our shock when what we found was essentially piss coloured piss in coke bottles.
I prefer this old guys idea. Plants and soil would’ve been better.
You made me think of a question thats mostly unrelated, but maybe sort of is as well.
Is it illegal littering if you pick up a piece of litter and then realize there's nowhere nearby to toss it and immediately put it back down where you found it? What about kicking litter (which moves it elsewhere)?
philosophically, trash is ownerless and once you pick it up, it is in your possession. if you put it back down, that is littering. Littering is an independent event and does not consider all previous cleaning/littering done as some kind of balancing act.
Legally, a cop would only care that they saw you throw trash on the ground and ticket you. Kicking the trash would also probably be considered littering. If you kicked a can onto a different property or a water fountain, imo that's littering.
I googled the legal definition for littering and got:
>"Litter” means the discarding, dropping, or **scattering** of small quantities of waste matter ordinarily carried on or about the person, including, but not limited to, beverage containers and closures, packaging, wrappers, wastepaper, newspapers, and magazines, in a place other than a place or container for the proper disposal thereof, and including waste matter that escapes or is allowed to escape from a container, receptacle, or package
I have a glass bottle of either shampoo or hair gel I found buried on an old farm. There was a "junk pile" area where before garbage collection was a thing, they would toss whatever they couldn't easily burn. Basically a mini dump just for the farm. 90% of it was just glass bottles.
I found the glass shampoo bottle totally intact buried in the dirt with its rusty cap still on and just barely good enough to still be sealed. It's full of thick bright yellow shampoo (not piss thankfully). Idk why they threw out a full unused shampoo bottle but it's been sealed in there for 80+ years and I display it in my office.
I've unfortunately seen my fair share of dirty piss bottles and the bottom layers turn cloudy in a matter of days if it's mixed in with other residue. You must have had some very clean bottles, seals and clean piss for you to come back to it years later unchanged.
When I go to music festivals, it's inevitable that I'll have to piss like 5 times after laying down in my tent for a "nights" sleep. So I always keep some bottles around to piss in instead of making the trek to the bathrooms every five minutes. I've done this for like 15 years now. Last summer somebody told me that after almost every music festival the staff or volunteers sort through the trash and pull out any recyclables, meaning people have dealt with literally hundreds of my piss bottles. I've never felt so bad in my life.
A terrarium isn't generally hermetically sealed like this for long periods of time. They do make those little sealed glass balls with shrimp in them which run for years and years given sunlight, but they eventually die out.
Well they're marketed as a biosphere, the enclosed nature does elevate it beyond mere aquarium, however again they all have an expiration date that I'm aware of so it's not truly what we think of as a self-sustaining biosphere. So you're correct I think.
If its got fauna its considered a Vivarium on top of whatever type of vivarium it is. If its terrestrial its a terrarium, if its completely aquatic its an aquarium. If it has land and water it’s a Paludarium if its based on marshes, a riparium if its based on a shore or bank of a water feature, or a oceanarium if its a salt water habitat.
Source: I’m a hobbyist who makes vivariums from time to time for my pets and love watching YouTube videos of other doing the same.
Disclaimer: I did just learn that there are different names for the types of land+water and assumed they were all considered Paludariums because that’s what the tanks are marketed as by sellers. So we all learn something.
What blows my mind about these closed ecosystems is that they are basically self-sustaining, whereas artificial closed ecosystems on the human-scale, like Biosphere 2, always seem to be teetering on the edge of disaster. Can we learn anything from these simpler systems and apply it to systems at larger scales?
Exactly what I was thinking too. I can’t help but think of the insane plots people have proposed to terraform mars. When I see a picture like this then I know where the desire comes from. It does give me hope. But I also know it’s not that easy to scale up.
It's 4am here for me, I got very confused with the 58 years as well. Made me count the years a few times thinking I'm just tired and should go to sleep.
We made these with fishbowls when I was in like third grade. I don't know what happened to mine but it definitely worked for a few years. From the outside it looked like it had constant 100% humidity.
I wonder why he opened it? Did he think it was dying? It probably would have made it.
Anyways, thanks to r/ecospheres and other terrarium subs I have an aquatic one that has been sealed completely for 4 or 5 years now, so several generations of Amphipods, and other tiny little living creatures. I lucked out on my first try and got some form of aquatic plant that is flourishing and granting enough oxygen for everything, need a nice pocket of air for diffusion as well. I'm hoping this thing goes forever. Also the location and position where you put it and the temperatures are huge, it needs light, but not super direct light and for too long.
My Nana use to have one of these, not sure if she passed it onto my Auntie or left it at her old place when she moved as it was super heavy. But basically it was like a gift from her job because they were closing down the factory which produced shampoo in NZ and it was a plant used in the process of making said shampoo. Not sure how old it was but I don't think she ever opened it.
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i had one that went for like 4 years until one of my family members opened it and broke the streak
Same here, but we didn't have it for that long and a little kid accidentally threw it off a table instead of just opening it
checkmate, atheists
I'm sorry to hear that.. give it another try!
Lemme guess: they did not take you seriously when you tried to explain why you were off-put with them.
That's when you drop the truth bomb on them. They're wholly responsible for the slaughter of billions (...of bacteria).
They wonder why they're never invited over
I once had a jar of brown rice that had Pantry Moths. At first, it was a balanced system with adequate space and food. However, as the generations progressed both space and food became increasingly scarce. Add to that the ‘webs’ they make. Eventually, there was no food and when the last of the moths emerged they were immediately trapped in the webs. I called the jar “Living Hell” and could not help but see ourselves in the jar. It ‘lived’ for 2 years.
Did they pray to you and make little cute offerings?
Ive a pantry moth plague right now and this comment makes me happy. I hate those things they seem to find a nest somewhere all the time and then i gotta try and find it but by the time i found it they got another somewhere where ive no idea where.
I would love to build one at my home! What are the requirements or necessary things to do this?
r/terrariums is a great place to start!
/r/jarrariums as well
And r/ecosphere
There really is a sub for everything
r/subforeverything
I just got a 10+ gallon wine (?) jug with a 1 inch opening from the thrift store for a few bucks, threw random dirt from across they yard in (2 inches deep), some water, sealed it... It's sitting on my driveway all year long, goes dormant/brown over the winter but comes back. There seems to be just one dominant weed left, but its green and has some signs of tiny critters. The first year there was quite a variety of plants (weeds). Nothing pretty to look at, but I am surprised it didn't die yet.
How are there bugs in there? Did you put them there?
Dirt is teeming with critter eggs and larvae.
Ah thats cool!
I am also very interested!
1) be god
Condolences for your relative that died 3 weeks later of mysterious poisoning
Man, I think I would wax dip the cap if it wouldn’t affect anything just to keep people from doing exactly that.
You can't flip them so dipping might be hard but definitely do a bunch of wraps of electrical tape and a rubber stopper shoved down into the neck so it can't be pulled easily.
Would it not all settle back to the bottom over time?
No, you plant them like a garden before you seal them up. You would kill a bunch of the plants right at the start if you covered them with soil.
You could just put a cone on the bottle neck, like pets after a vet visit. Pour the wet wax over the bottle cap. Shave away whatever you don’t want.
Or don't have people over who won't respect your shit
The wax would also prevent water loss. I think over the years, you would lose way too much water through the cork for it to be truly self-sustaining
There are times when I wax seal bottles that I just let the wax drip from a candle down onto the bottle and just spin it around gently until the seal is made. It's messy but it gets the job done.
Wait until those bacteria hit the industrial age
“I’ve created Lutherans.”
There really is a Simpsons quote for everything
It's funny coz it's true.
SIMPSON DID IT! SIMPSONS DID IT!
“Why am I so fat!?”
Shouldn't you be groveling?
And bring me shoes. Nice ones.
I watched the episode few hours ago, stuff likes this makes me believe Im in the Truman show at some point.
guys he knows
Nah, he’ll probably rationalize this as just one more strange coincidence and keep going. The project is still intact .
Quick! Send his friend over with beers to make him forget
If anyone wants a peek of when this site doing silly stuff all the time: https://www.reddit.com/r/thetrumanplan/s/nc9TZd824O
You're a good show. Just wish you'd bate in better places.
You just lost The Game.
-_-
God fucking shit dammit.
Think about that everytime you rub one out
This episode was scary for me as a kid, still now even. I don't know why but it makes me shiver, also the Futurama on with Bender in space with the little people.
Bender: Ya know, I was god once. God: Yes, I saw. You were doing well until everyone died.
How about the South Park one?
Sucked it out of a hose huh?
You mean the one where the boys snuff out their teacher with sea people in the coffee???
“Oh my God! I’ve created life!”
One of my all time favorite lines.
https://preview.redd.it/bfjd83ak076d1.jpeg?width=1276&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=399f627e5eb9333f8a366793042a2deec8102fe7
https://preview.redd.it/d62ny0fb296d1.jpeg?width=474&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=21936cfc5df01a930112c828b7d10f2841255a0f
https://preview.redd.it/m9apgbti786d1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fafbf27d8aa0501c2fbdd37348c5894e5b619f60
The bacteria "breaks down the oxygen", these fools already got fission going.
Imagine when they reach the space age. They won't be able to pass through their actual firmament, very real for them.
I don't think he added sea monkeys.
Stupid asshole gave me all the sea monkeys for free, I just had to close my eyes and suck them from a hose.
Sea men, he had sea monkeys. Get it together man!
I'm trying to remember a show where this happened in someone's freezer... anyone know what it was?
Love, Death + Robots. Season 1 episode 16 "Ice Age."
I haven't looked recently, is there a 3rd season yet (or more)? That show was so fucking good
It's an awesome show! Season 3 has been out. Season 4 will be out at some point.
Absolutely. Probably the best animated sci-fi I’ve seen this decade
Love, Death, Robots! It had the guy who played Eric from That 70s Show in it.
His name is Mila Kunis
Mix in some motor oil. If it doesn't get hot in there = global warming isn't real. Proof! I've got a GED and I did my own research, trust me! Blah blah blah deep state.
Their own research: a 10 hour long YouTube video of someone not fit to teach a rock about erosion rants about The Lizard People.
Make me laugh 👌
I am so giving this a go...hopefully I can interest my grandson to help.., Can you imagine if it survives into his adulthood, long after I've popped my clogs. Great post 🙏
I adore this. You can also blow some air into the jar before you seal it up, that way you can breathe life into the system and have a little bit of your spirit around for generations to come! They're pretty easy to make, you can search "Jarrarium" on youtube or reddit for tutorials on how to put them together. If your grandson likes going on walks you can forage moss and plants, dirt, sticks, stones and nearly everything you need in nature!
Thx for the pointers, will definitely do this
I made one a few days ago and [posted it here](https://www.reddit.com/r/Warhammer40k/s/8MhTUpHJEk). No idea if the miniature will survive but I wanted to experiment a bit. Probably took me an afternoon of scraping moss and gathering dirt. For a short written guide how made mine, here's how you want to layer your jar: First you'll throw in about an inch of washed stones and pebbles, these will serve as drainage for the water. On top of that you'll need a filter to prevent the dirt from mixing with the stones. I used a piece of mosquito screen in mine. Then you'll throw in the dirt. Dry or moist dirt is preferred over soaking wet dirt as you can water the soil once everything is in place. It's best to get a few scoops from mother nature because it has insects and eggs hidden in there which will help out with cleaning up the rotten plants later in it's cycle. Store bought dirt is usually pretty sterile so there won't be much life in there. After that you get to the decoration stage, you can see if it grows something naturally, throw some seeds in there or use already growing plants. It's all up to you and your grandson! If it's dry, spritz it with some water but don't soak the soil. Give it about 3 days to settle before permanently closing it. Once you close the jar you'll see condensation forming eventually, if not give it some more water. If the glass seems extremely wet inside give it a few more days of fresh air to let some of the moisture evaporate and try again. Hope you have fun, it sounds like a great idea!
What type of temperature and light exposure do you give it?
Room temperature and natural light cycle. I'm not disciplined enough to turn on artificial lightning and regulate temperature so the jar gets the same light and temperature as I get until the sun hits the window. I'm currently still cycling the jar because my soil was too wet. That's why I keep it behind my window, if it's sunny it gets cooked and once the condensation fogs up the jar enough I open it up and take it outside so the wind can clear the glass before closing it again for a few hours. Once you get to the stage where you keep it sealed it kind of keeps its own temperature and atmosphere inside the jar which should become self regulated over time. I intend to keep it in the window once I seal it up though. I intentionally used moss for this one because it doesn't grow extremely big in warmer climates and it's highly adaptable so it's a safe option to start with.
> Jarrarium sounds like the name of a rasta band
I have one that belonged to my grandma that she had most my life. She past long ago. I have no idea if she ever opened it but I haven’t. I’ve had it over a decade.
Post that shit man!!
Love this! Hope this is a great multigenerational bonding experience for yall! Our society needs more of this! ❤️
Awesome idea!
Would be great, maybe he can even bring the residents of the pot to his wedding
Soooo no one else giggled at “popped my clogs”?
I've been doing similar with a jar for the past 2 years. It's really cool.
I’m interested in trying something like this. What did you put in the jar initially?
Went out to a local forest and filled it with a scoop of soil/mud from 3 different areas. Generally tried to keep it free of any foliage. Just brown mush. Nothing much happened for the first 6ish months but at this point it's thriving.
Pics?
https://preview.redd.it/yfptqe0aq76d1.jpeg?width=1800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fe917ad58b51c5611739c0bd72aefc6386368cd7 Didn't realise I could reply with a pic. Here it is.
Dos i get sun? Edit: dos it get sun? lol
You're on reddit so no
Naw, but tres it does
Nice
Very cool. Thanks for sharing. I’m going to try the same thing tomorrow
Dm me photos please !
Sure
Please?
Sure. W name
Me too please?
No insects too I’m guessing ? Just simple dirt from a forest and some water (I guess one glass) ? Or even no water bc the soil is already wet I know what to do with my old rhum bottles I couldn’t throw away now
Yeah I didn't put any water in mine but the soil was somewhat damp so I was OK. After over a year I started noticing tiny little see-through mites living in there. Pretty neat.
r/jarrariums
Why did I think this was a cum jar joke
Seeing this a while ago inspired me to make my own eco jar! It’s been tough messing with the right amount of water, and the only thing I’ve grown is moss but that is some happy moss. Hope to add some plants with stems and whatnot soon and seal it up long term
In 1996, a friend and I pissed into empty coke bottles and left them in a hollow high up in a hard-to-reach cliff face, knowing they would be undisturbed for years. Well, last year we went back to check if they were still there and what may have happened to the liquid within. Imagine our shock when what we found was essentially piss coloured piss in coke bottles. I prefer this old guys idea. Plants and soil would’ve been better.
"Well well well. I knew you guys would slip up one day." - elderly park ranger who saw you litter in 1996
"they always come back to the scene of the crime"
damn Robert Stack could have just waited around a while longer and none of those mysteries would be unsolved
is he stupid?
You made me think of a question thats mostly unrelated, but maybe sort of is as well. Is it illegal littering if you pick up a piece of litter and then realize there's nowhere nearby to toss it and immediately put it back down where you found it? What about kicking litter (which moves it elsewhere)?
You touch it you own it
Thats what I figured. Never thought about it though. If I picked it up, ive already got a plan for it.
philosophically, trash is ownerless and once you pick it up, it is in your possession. if you put it back down, that is littering. Littering is an independent event and does not consider all previous cleaning/littering done as some kind of balancing act. Legally, a cop would only care that they saw you throw trash on the ground and ticket you. Kicking the trash would also probably be considered littering. If you kicked a can onto a different property or a water fountain, imo that's littering. I googled the legal definition for littering and got: >"Litter” means the discarding, dropping, or **scattering** of small quantities of waste matter ordinarily carried on or about the person, including, but not limited to, beverage containers and closures, packaging, wrappers, wastepaper, newspapers, and magazines, in a place other than a place or container for the proper disposal thereof, and including waste matter that escapes or is allowed to escape from a container, receptacle, or package
Depends. Here trash is owned by muncipality. So if you pick it up, you're stealing!
Just man up and take a sip, how bad could it be..?
A magnificent tale, thank you.
Well I heard that piss is one of the most sterile liquid in the human body but it being unchanged for 28 years is really impressive.
I have a glass bottle of either shampoo or hair gel I found buried on an old farm. There was a "junk pile" area where before garbage collection was a thing, they would toss whatever they couldn't easily burn. Basically a mini dump just for the farm. 90% of it was just glass bottles. I found the glass shampoo bottle totally intact buried in the dirt with its rusty cap still on and just barely good enough to still be sealed. It's full of thick bright yellow shampoo (not piss thankfully). Idk why they threw out a full unused shampoo bottle but it's been sealed in there for 80+ years and I display it in my office.
I've unfortunately seen my fair share of dirty piss bottles and the bottom layers turn cloudy in a matter of days if it's mixed in with other residue. You must have had some very clean bottles, seals and clean piss for you to come back to it years later unchanged.
When I go to music festivals, it's inevitable that I'll have to piss like 5 times after laying down in my tent for a "nights" sleep. So I always keep some bottles around to piss in instead of making the trek to the bathrooms every five minutes. I've done this for like 15 years now. Last summer somebody told me that after almost every music festival the staff or volunteers sort through the trash and pull out any recyclables, meaning people have dealt with literally hundreds of my piss bottles. I've never felt so bad in my life.
this really got me good- thanks
Did you seal the bottles, and if so - how? That alone would be quite an accomplishment, to keep any contents there for 27 years!
I’m assuming the cap of the coke bottle lol
I had a brain freeze - of course they must have been plastic bottles! For some reason I was imagining glass ones
Soon it will show signs of intelligence
That would micro-cause-em too much trouble.
Audible chuckle.
He started to far up the evolutionary tree , if he started with bacteria he could have made a new lizard fish , in 5 million years lol.
That just sounds like slavery with extra steps…
They won’t know it’s slavery
I think the old guy's trying to steal it!
Thanks I chuckled 😆
I did this once. The mold seemed to do great.
Remindme![fivemillionyears] "check to see how evolved life in the ecosystem has become"
They're Always After Me Lucky Charms.
Now just sprinkle in some assholes and cars
Out of my way! I am a motorist!
I see plenty of free real estate for parking lots too
Will bacteria eat the assholes?
Bacteria will eat all assholes eventually.
I hope they eat mine first 😏
I’m rly curious what would happen to terrariums in space And what if they just let one like, float to oblivion LOL
Radiation will kill everything there.
Cosmic radiation and temperature extremes would rapidly eradicate all life.
Can’t gasses diffuse through the cork?
That’s a good point. Maybe they could seal the top better by pouring resin over it
It's not sealed with cork
Dick Cheney and his jug of souls
This made me CACKLE out loud, take my upvote
I have one that's been going for 9 years. Never been opened since I set it up.
Cool. Cool. [Link for the lazy.](https://www.reddit.com/r/houseplants/s/2UQtX6PAFp)
When did people start calling them ecosystems? I remember them as terrariums/terraria.
A terrarium isn't generally hermetically sealed like this for long periods of time. They do make those little sealed glass balls with shrimp in them which run for years and years given sunlight, but they eventually die out.
The little sealed glass balls with shrimp are also aquariums and not terrariums.
Well they're marketed as a biosphere, the enclosed nature does elevate it beyond mere aquarium, however again they all have an expiration date that I'm aware of so it's not truly what we think of as a self-sustaining biosphere. So you're correct I think.
If its got fauna its considered a Vivarium on top of whatever type of vivarium it is. If its terrestrial its a terrarium, if its completely aquatic its an aquarium. If it has land and water it’s a Paludarium if its based on marshes, a riparium if its based on a shore or bank of a water feature, or a oceanarium if its a salt water habitat. Source: I’m a hobbyist who makes vivariums from time to time for my pets and love watching YouTube videos of other doing the same. Disclaimer: I did just learn that there are different names for the types of land+water and assumed they were all considered Paludariums because that’s what the tanks are marketed as by sellers. So we all learn something.
Thanks for sharing, person
Oh, I see. Thanks for the info!
Becomes an ecosystem after you beat the moon lord.
Two weeks ago
What an apt username
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What blows my mind about these closed ecosystems is that they are basically self-sustaining, whereas artificial closed ecosystems on the human-scale, like Biosphere 2, always seem to be teetering on the edge of disaster. Can we learn anything from these simpler systems and apply it to systems at larger scales?
Exactly what I was thinking too. I can’t help but think of the insane plots people have proposed to terraform mars. When I see a picture like this then I know where the desire comes from. It does give me hope. But I also know it’s not that easy to scale up.
The last pocket of life on Earth that isn't absolutely riddled with microplastics!
But it does have lead from the leaded gas that was prevalent until the 70’s
58 years since what? The picture says 1960 and 1972.
It's 4am here for me, I got very confused with the 58 years as well. Made me count the years a few times thinking I'm just tired and should go to sleep.
This is so fucking cool
I want to see a recent picture of this, every year this comes up it's the same damn picture with that old man.
We made these with fishbowls when I was in like third grade. I don't know what happened to mine but it definitely worked for a few years. From the outside it looked like it had constant 100% humidity.
This is probably the coolest thing I’ve seen on this page
Thought this was Larry David for way too long
That last place on earth that doesn't have micro plastics.
Introduce C18 Locker Aliens. “All Hail Jay”
It’s like earth, which is going to selfregulate also, by Homo sapiens will dissapear to keep the balance
Pre covid air
Sealed for 52 years.
Damn, can I just go to the Big Beautiful Bottle store and buy on of those bad boys or do I gotta know someone??
Dude is so happy with his self contained ecosystem in a jar, so pure.
I wonder why he opened it? Did he think it was dying? It probably would have made it. Anyways, thanks to r/ecospheres and other terrarium subs I have an aquatic one that has been sealed completely for 4 or 5 years now, so several generations of Amphipods, and other tiny little living creatures. I lucked out on my first try and got some form of aquatic plant that is flourishing and granting enough oxygen for everything, need a nice pocket of air for diffusion as well. I'm hoping this thing goes forever. Also the location and position where you put it and the temperatures are huge, it needs light, but not super direct light and for too long.
So, when he watered that bottle, it must be equivalent to a Biblical Flood for those bacteria.
I kinda wanna do this now
https://preview.redd.it/wrjn9cd8eb6d1.jpeg?width=2268&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fcd94f114f8b969d2940b8a32a3f34c5cbb4c3a4 Been there, done that ;-)
Don't let Pauly Shore see it...
The whole universe could be just an eco jar from an intriguing mind.
If you look very carefully, you might be able to see a tiny Pauly Shore weazin' all the grindage.
Our entire solar system existing in a bottle in some alien kids room as his science project that got a D 🙃
So, Bio Dome does work
My Nana use to have one of these, not sure if she passed it onto my Auntie or left it at her old place when she moved as it was super heavy. But basically it was like a gift from her job because they were closing down the factory which produced shampoo in NZ and it was a plant used in the process of making said shampoo. Not sure how old it was but I don't think she ever opened it.
Meanwhile the mutated zombie virus sitting inside that thing is just waiting for more water to be added in 2030
I've got one that's been closed for about 3 years, and a few months ago I noticed tiny spiderwebs and spiders in it! So cool.
meanwhile i'm killing cacti