@odyoderus You can remove chlorine from water simply by leaving it out for 48 hours, filtering it for 24 hours, or using a chlorine eliminating product from a pet store. I hope that is what you were asking, otherwise you'll have to ask the guy who made this video.
Wow, those are some amazing creatures you have in there. What is that little amphipod, and where did you get him? I've been doing freshwater biospheres for about a year now. My main econaut has been an amano shrimp in each of them, but I would love to find some of these amazing creatures that you have in yours. Were they collected from ponds?
@circuitweed I collected plants and "muck" samples in Eagan, Minnesota at an office park pond. I was really surprised at all of the active life that existed in just a couple scoops. I used a small gardening hand shovel and just put a few scoops into a mason jar with pond water for transport. When I got home, I dumped some of that into dechlorinated water so I could see what I was putting into the spheres. I used a straw like a pipette to suck up the creatures and deposit them into the sphere.
@studiohanson Nice! With the most recent biosphere I created, I was concerned that the pond muck didn't contain too many living creatures. A little perplexing since it's the same pond I used to build my previous biosphere which was packed with amphipods and ostracods. I'm assuming it's because I collected it last month while the weather was still in the mid 40's (Portland, OR). Strangely enough, there are a ton of ostracods in there after two weeks No amphipods yet, but maybe they're growing.
@circuitweed Since last September when I did this, I saw stuff I never even knew I had! The hydra were a bonus, but they have now passed. At one point I had a massive daphnia hatch and there were so many I could not count them. I think over winter, the fluctuating temps along with cleaners picking up the spheres and mistreating them have proved disruptive. I have seen multiple dragonfly nymphs rise from the muck as well.
@studiohanson This spring, I hope to build a much larger sphere of about 8-10 inches, and that one should have a lot more hornwort and perhaps some shrimp. Really, a great experiment. So much visible diversity I am still blown away by these, even though they have had their ups and downs.
That is a hydra. It's a tiny creature that eats other swimmers-by, catching them it its stinging tentacles. I happen to have two of them in that sphere. The little water mite that it catches in the video survived. He gets stunned for a few moments, but the hydra lets him go every time. I assume the mite is just too big to be eaten by the hydra, but I think both hydras have survived by eating little cyclops copapods and daphnia.
How did you get the water quality like that? Also did you' put any pond water in there or just plain declhlorinated tap water?
guineapigdude1 1 week ago
Wish I could have one like that!
guineapigdude1 1 week ago
the dechlorinated water, how does this work and how do you make it?
odyoderus 4 months ago
@odyoderus You can remove chlorine from water simply by leaving it out for 48 hours, filtering it for 24 hours, or using a chlorine eliminating product from a pet store. I hope that is what you were asking, otherwise you'll have to ask the guy who made this video.
DiamondAsheaka 2 months ago
@DiamondAsheaka thanks that actually helped alot
odyoderus 2 months ago
PLS ANSWER ME what are those little white dots moving in the water its been bugging me for a while now pls someone
fishoexplotion1 4 months ago
how did you get them in there? and where did you get the round glass ball to put them in?
cuties32 10 months ago
Wow, those are some amazing creatures you have in there. What is that little amphipod, and where did you get him? I've been doing freshwater biospheres for about a year now. My main econaut has been an amano shrimp in each of them, but I would love to find some of these amazing creatures that you have in yours. Were they collected from ponds?
circuitweed 11 months ago
@circuitweed I collected plants and "muck" samples in Eagan, Minnesota at an office park pond. I was really surprised at all of the active life that existed in just a couple scoops. I used a small gardening hand shovel and just put a few scoops into a mason jar with pond water for transport. When I got home, I dumped some of that into dechlorinated water so I could see what I was putting into the spheres. I used a straw like a pipette to suck up the creatures and deposit them into the sphere.
studiohanson 11 months ago
@studiohanson Nice! With the most recent biosphere I created, I was concerned that the pond muck didn't contain too many living creatures. A little perplexing since it's the same pond I used to build my previous biosphere which was packed with amphipods and ostracods. I'm assuming it's because I collected it last month while the weather was still in the mid 40's (Portland, OR). Strangely enough, there are a ton of ostracods in there after two weeks No amphipods yet, but maybe they're growing.
circuitweed 11 months ago
@circuitweed Since last September when I did this, I saw stuff I never even knew I had! The hydra were a bonus, but they have now passed. At one point I had a massive daphnia hatch and there were so many I could not count them. I think over winter, the fluctuating temps along with cleaners picking up the spheres and mistreating them have proved disruptive. I have seen multiple dragonfly nymphs rise from the muck as well.
studiohanson 11 months ago
@studiohanson This spring, I hope to build a much larger sphere of about 8-10 inches, and that one should have a lot more hornwort and perhaps some shrimp. Really, a great experiment. So much visible diversity I am still blown away by these, even though they have had their ups and downs.
studiohanson 11 months ago
That is a hydra. It's a tiny creature that eats other swimmers-by, catching them it its stinging tentacles. I happen to have two of them in that sphere. The little water mite that it catches in the video survived. He gets stunned for a few moments, but the hydra lets him go every time. I assume the mite is just too big to be eaten by the hydra, but I think both hydras have survived by eating little cyclops copapods and daphnia.
studiohanson 1 year ago
what was the thing with the long tentacles at 1:10 ?
pawnbob 1 year ago
Hey, thanks. I would say i got lucky, but I made two of these and they both are working out well. I credit the formula from the magazine article.
studiohanson 1 year ago
Awesome water quality! Cool project
DanJeffery07 1 year ago