Ecosphere, closed ecosystem

[br3nt0n]

ecosphere for a fucking virus? that shit is probably from a ditch and is full of parasites..

[LoverDino]

fucking saltfags

[limesandstupidity]

what happens when the shrimps die? o_o

[promocadeaux]

Beaucoup d'algues, elle a du rester longtemps au soleil ;)

Many seaweed, much sun ?

[nhoj30]

we made one of these in hs

we started with just one rolly-polly but we ended up with like 15 inbreads that helped feed the one spider

pure luck made ours work really well,

even our frog lived somehow

[thepandamanlive]

wouldn't the water go stale?

[CherubHorse]

@thepandamanlive There would be the animals producing carbon dioxide and waste, and the algae and other plants would in turn use the waste as fertilizer, and make oxygen out of the carbon dioxide. Little circle of life :)

[Candyismylife226]

I would like 1 minute and 25 seconds of my life back please.

Once I get it back, I'll use it to dislike this video.

[PirateDion]

@Candyismylife226 so you sat there and watched through all of it even though it didn't amaze you enough at the start. Why do you waste more time of your precious life by posting your comment? Heck, why even look on youtube? :)

Curious.

[tubetoiletv2000]

and in about a thousand years he will have a fish.

[Curaine886]

If your water wasn't almost as green as grass (Algae) before you opened it, then your opae'ula was slowly dying of starvation(No algae= no food) and ammonia buildup. (No algae = no poo - oxygen conversion.)

[NicSchumi]

Fascinating :-)

[rickya350]

How expensive are the Ecospheres? 

[dollydear98]

I enjoyed your ecosystem and vid very much. There's always haters, but, I actually found beauty in this little system.....it's quite amazing when you think about it. Thanks for sharing~Good Luck

[buster234100]

at one time a part of the inside of my pen looked like that :)

[maru14able]

nom nom nomz

[yoshi856]

people who dislike on youtube are fags

[Productionsofficial]

Do u need some sort of shrimp to keep the ecosphere alive? ;)

Or can u just go out, get some water/mud/plants from a clean pond an put it in a jar?

[chickenzrck]

a mini forest but under water very cool.

[s4spencer]

so disgusting...but so beautiful

[Productionsofficial]

How do you clean the inside?

[s4spencer]

@Productionsofficial epic lol

[Infocollective22]

@Productionsofficial You don't,that's the point

[knifegill]

If that were saltwater there wouldn't be any negative comments. Freshwater microorganisms get no respect. Just because they aren't neon pink and blue doesn't mean they aren't awesome and need algae to live. BTW, your ecosphere hasn't been sealed, it looks to have evaporated slightly. Still, love the whole idea and I'm about to do my own.

[eigio]

@knifegill

People are searching for beauty in the most common sense of it, what can you do, though there are other ones that can see past that and can find beauty in other places.

Well it was sealed with silicone, maybe it evaporated through the lid plastic, also you can see that it's not fully functional system, at the end it got worse and worse until algae too over everything.

[Infocollective22]

@eigio Could you expand on the idea by having different,if somewhat extremely different,ecosystems than this (still very interesting) water habitat?

[splintercell186]

@eigio you should make a hole on the top and stick a snak cam with a led, down in the water to see whats going on inside, algae and water allways moves away from eachother, so your allways going to get clear water,as long if you dont move the algae at all, you should still have clear water

[timar03]

@eigio just put it in a dark place to limit the algae.

[FusionNinjin]

@eigio hmm could make that eco system loop if you got an algae eater that keeps it in balance, tought that might be difficulty, in anycase interesting :) keep it up

[splintercell186]

@knifegill so if i may ask something. what would happen if we would take dirt, plants, and water in a 32 gal fish tank, half water half land,and seal it air tight,and have a heat lamp, to worm it up at day, and turn it off at night, would we get a new atmosphere in the fish tank,and if so, how about adding a electric charg to the water droplets, on the inner top of the tank where the clouds are formed, would we get a atmosphere running all on its own, and we dont have to do anything more to it

[PopKorn808]

@knifegill well is ther a vid of these neon colored?

[renno103]

@knifegill Amen!

[TheDillbn]

what happened

[TheRomanPraetorian78]

can i dunk it on my romemate's head?

[eigio]

@TheRomanPraetorian78

You can dunk your head in toilet, would that suffice?

[12ock]

its really a symbol of earth...in many ways..... i wish we he can make spaceship tough enough to hold 100thousan civil animals and life on the planet outside the dome

[Edd360]

closed system powered by the sun eh

[Noodles37UK]

Funny how when we look at it , we go " drab " " ugly" etc. But if someone brought this back from Mars or Europa, we'd all be " WOW" and it would be worth an inestimable sum of money. LIFE is a fascinating invention by whatever's responsible.

[crystalclearwolf]

too bad the ponds/places where i could get pond water and mud don't have water vegitation...just grass...

[PDMLJC]

you should really let some air in!

[Pieishman]

@PDMLJC the algae creates oxygrn for the animals

[TheGrandJump]

Any advice on making one with red cherry shrimp inside?? o.o

[eigio]

@TheGrandJump No much knowledge on shrimps here, as I read they are mostly algae eaters, so they should be fine on that, I guess don't add too much of plants, since in the commercial Ecosphere there are very little of plants.

[jacklee121207]

@TheGrandJump would that work??? surely a sealed containment with stagnant water and no oxygen would kill within 1-2 weeks. shrimp need pristine water conditions and parameters. that water would not be suitable.

[jacklee121207]

@jacklee121207 OMG your right thats amazing.

[TheGrandJump]

@jacklee121207 you can try...i made 1 that successfully lived for approximately 2 months

i also read an article on the net teaching kids to make an ecosphere with a ghost shrimp inside :D

[snakerman2612]

that is a mess why would you want to keep it?

[eigio]

@snakerman2612

World is a mess, why would you want to live in it?

[snakerman2612]

@eigio since the world is what it is, i'd like to have something beautiful to look at sometimes, just to keep the dream alive x'D

[eigio]

@snakerman2612 Who can say what is beautiful? theres no objective beauty only subjective understanding of what it is, ppl have different understanding of things, have different needs and such, if for one something is beautiful for the other it may not seem so, anyway this wasn't made to be beautiful for the eye, the idea was interesting itself.

[snakerman2612]

@eigio be honest, it's fuckin ugly

[TimeLapseYT]

@snakerman2612 Nah

[SxAiDs]

@eigio He kinda dont have much of a choice..

[babycat967]

@eigio i agree lol

[TheJsmits]

@eigio you should slow the beginning down, nobody can read at light speed my friend

[babycat967]

@snakerman2612 science

[aledirksen01]

I just had to refresh before I comment because I wanted to make sure. all comment says 69:D.Im 70:(. this is actualy a really cool system. what kind of jar would you recomend or how would you recomend to keep air out and the water in? I think I might actualy make one.

[eigio]

@aledirksen01 If theres many comments, sooner or later it will reach that point, so nothing too fascinating ;)

Any kind of 1-2 liter jar will do, the smoother glass the better, because you will be able to see through it better, this specific jar was bought from shop as brittle dry foods jar, it had this screw-able top so it did the job. Only one thing, don't over add plants and decay-able matter in to it or it will go bad faster.

[B4IRUTUARU16]

lol love the noise bloop bloop berr ber ber bloop

[joce138]

What are those tiny specs that move around? Are they baby snails? My biology teacher made her own biosphere, and at the bottom there seemed to be something with tentacles that moved around like a sea anemone and flinched when anything touched it, but it never moved.

[eigio]

@joce138 Those little dots are copepods, ostracods and such plankton and the second thing you are talking about is most probably hydra.

[xato909]

its ball called ECOSHITSTEM lulz ,I started laughing on 0:40 xD

[lolflap]

The brown things are so pwnage!

[blueczyk]

thank you Forkboy - i had wondered if these were ethically sound - afterall it's not like a shrimp can let us know if he is hungry - the fact that they don't grow very big gives it away i guess. starving to death for our entertainment! I will not be purchasing one. :(

[MSCaachen1]

cool...

i don't have to add animals for example a snail??

don't clean it?

[xxweeman16]

is that a new animal Oo

[rainbowscythe]

that song was sweet

[eigio]

@rainbowscythe Thank you I was figuring out what to put as a soundtrack, didn't want to put some lame music so made my own simple soundtrack.

[insect1997]

excuse me how can i make one do i have to take some water from a pond or sea please answser

[eigio]

@insect1997 Just take some water from pond, some plants, fill with gravel the jar, fill in water, add plants, seal tight and thats it, just don't place too many plants or too much decaying mater in it and don't keep on direct sunlight, if the place will be too bright, algae will start to grow.

[FrosDOwnz]

The frog-o-sphere is a similar concept to the ecosphere except with African Dwarf frogs and bamboo.

It's only $40 instead of $60+. :O

[Halapartna]

wow! cool! you can now have shit and bugs in jar !

[LunasCraincloud]

@Halapartna Whats she point in trolling?

[Zothecula]

Wow, so I'm not the only one who's tried this! I've done several, actually. It's really cool to watch what kind of organisms reveal themselves as the thing matures. There's always more than you initially thought you put in there. Good job, thanks for posting!

[5elin]

cool

[D081]

lol ohh

so people purposely make these? o.O i thought it was like an accident lol

[evilbillcosby]

horrible

stupid

kys

[ivanlagrossemoule]

Nice. When I was a kid I did something like this. Took a smaller jar un just put random plants, dirt and some water in it. It worked but one day my silly father opened it. I still had it for like a month and the plants had grown.

[tamarababa]

This sphere have more algae inside,than it's normal.

I bought one smaller system and it's beautiful, I took it to my desk and it's still working after 6 years!

[FrosDOwnz]

The ecospheres with the shrimp sustain shrimp population? :O

[SimmysPvPFans]

Amazing thing life~

[IceTeaEdwin]

Wut

[1992pattrow]

what ever you do don't take the top of. It will smell like shit. I would know, I tried it out and it got disgusting and I took the top off to dump he crap and it was disgusting.

[wakawaka60]

never ever put a crayfish in there....ate everything I had in their...

[DontAdvertise]

"if its enclosed howd u get them in there?" blah blah blah u fukin retard it comes what the shit in there!

[looooo215]

excuse me for asking a question, i didn't know. and theyre is absolutly NO REASON for you to call me a retard. Just because you think you know everything (which you obviously don't) dosen't give you the right to look down on someone because they asked a question.

[DontAdvertise]

i did not call u a retard. i called u a fukin retard. big diffrence. and how could you not know. do some reaserch. and be nicer

[looooo215]

mot everyone knows about ecospheres. That's not a big difference either all you do is put some word that's supposed to make being called a retard worse, and it dosen't. I'm not the one who should be nicer, I haven't said anything rude unlike you. Take your own advise and "be nicer"

[IceTeaEdwin]

reaserch

LMAO!!!

[eigio]

Well I took some water and plants from a pond and filled the jar with it, then sealed it so that no air could come in.

And about the look...well yes it looks a bit disgusting, but you know not all the ppl decorate their houses to the perfectness.

[looooo215]

ya i guess lol.. oh once all the stuff dies u should take some of the water out and look at it underneath a microscope, there would prob be a lot of organisms :) theyre very hard to follow cause they move so fast

[IceTeaEdwin]

Lawl

[kilikinho]

i am so sorry to hear that kbelle.but i guess it could be a release for your 500$ shrimp stopping him/her to be lonely for 8 years in a lil glassbowl.

[IceTeaEdwin]

*sigh*

Why you such a fggt, kilikinho?

[Kbelle925]

I bought an Ecosphere back in 2000. It was the last one in a store that was going out of business, and it only had one shrimp in it. It lived for 8+ years before it finally died last month.

[PattyGayle1]

I received one with two shrimp as a gift in Nov. 2000 that are still thriving. Over 8 1/2 years. I'm sorry yours past away. I've grown to appreciate them and their endurance more and more as time passes. I wouldn't hesitate to buy one when the day comes they are no longer around.

[molberries]

did the actual 2 shrimp live all 8 years? or did they reproduce and such?

[Forkboy193]

It is claimed by the companies that sell them that they are selling a fully functioning ecosystem with the shrimp and the algae keeping each other alive. However, that is a lie, which is being told by these companies for the sake of profits. These shrimps are slowly starving to death, suffocating and being poisoned in those containers, due to lack of food and oxygen. It takes 1-3 years for Hawaiian Red Shrimp to die, since it has such a remarkable physiology to deal with extreme situations.

[ZZchaz]

Way to take a stand... against shrimp-killers.

[dinoanimal15]

thats y i make sure the alrge grow big enoguh so there is pretty good so far

[dinoanimal15]

and i make the ecosphere warm so the bactria grow to eat there poop and shit so far they look good first i got them man they likke pale now they hav a nice coat

[kilikinho]

Please free your shrimp from this slow and painfull road to death

[dinoanimal15]

dude there fine they hav a good color means there healths the plant is growein fine there bactria to eat there shit

[o0jamesy0o]

they die either way, no difference. better than getting eaten by you.

[gbg112]

Actally that is a common misconception.

There are many more organism in the "standard comercial shrimp algae system" but the shrimp do just fine they do not starve unless there is not enorth algae but keep them with heat / light they all do just fiine look up biospere 2 / 3.

[o0jamesy0o]

better than getting eaten by you on your dinner plate

[Lauen324]

@Forkboy193 Its true, theyre basicly being starved in disguise.

[blueczyk]

@Lauen324 and thank you Forkboy - i had wondered if these were ethically sound - afterall it's not like a shrimp can let us know if he is hungry - the fact that they don't grow very big gives it away i guess. starving to death for our entertainment! I will not be purchasing one. :(

[tawras]

@Lauen324 LMFAO wow.. just wow.

[SoundWavePanda]

@Forkboy193 Well isn't that kind of what we do to all pets? besides, how do you know that that 3 year period isn't the shrimps natural life life span? besides the fact that they are being saved from being fish, boiled and eaten, I think they have it pretty good.

[a5414]

@Forkboy193 It takes approximately 75 years for a human to die; less if that human ingests too much dihydrogen monoxide.

[Wingy]

@Forkboy193 Not really true, they say the lifespan of those shrimps are about 2-3 years anyway but it can survive up to 12 years, I have a bowl for 6 years already and it is still perfectly fine, so are the shrimps. You just have to make sure there are enough algae which provides them the oxygen they need

[llVllahi]

@Forkboy193 I don't see how this is true. My shrimp have been living since 2002 and they show no signs of stopping. 9 years of starvation, damn. I would like to know where you got your information. A source would be a good start. Maybe a scientific journal? Please tell me where you are getting your numbers.

[legolooney]

@Forkboy193 also the avarage lifespan in their natural habitat is about half that....so....there

[themousemaster]

@Forkboy193 wow this is HORRIBLE what can i do to help stop it? i hate this kind of cruelty 

[yetiamchosen]

@Forkboy193 Developed by NASA, shrimp visibly grow larger and larger in size, and are highly active, darting about and playing with each other. Don't be an idiot and post disinformation without citing your sources.

[Forkboy193]

@yetiamchosen You make it sound as if it's NASA that has designed a glass sphere with some shrimps in it. The ecosphere is made by Ecosphere Associates INC, and they use the "developed by NASA" as commerical gimmick. The "ecospheres" made by NASA are in fact highly sustainable ecospheres made by professional biologists, in contrary to the commercial spheres which are too small to provide enough food and waste removal, slowly starving and poisoning the shrimp.

[Curaine886]

@Forkboy193 Actually, your shrimp, Hawiian Red Shrimp, or opae'ula, are actually being slowly poisoned and killed by ammonia and starvation.

[kyuubiblade141]

sweet its like a new species

[sandiegoryu]

wut

[kingmaxim187]

in real live they would live about 15 up to 21 years in those glas bubble they only can live 1 1/2 up to 3 years. thats like a human in an ecosphere would die in the age of 10. it fascinating offcourse. but i dont like the fact of putting alive animals into a forever closed bubble and let them rot in there.

[jaysucks312]

i want one of thoes ecospheres =D

where can i buy them?

i live in toronto

[itzjesusbxtch]

he made it

[Dangermind88]

cool =D i want one :D

[Dangermind88]

how about oxygen?

[eigio]

Plants make oxygen, snails and other small organisms use oxygen and make CO2, they also eat and make material that plants can use, plants uses that and CO2 and make oxygen and biomass which is food for smallest organisms, which is food for larger organisms which is food for largest organism.

[XChopChipX]

When you look at that snail you think 'Boy, he's slow!' Then you look at the rest and find out it's in fast motion!!!

[hunterharkins]

i have one of these, that my brother got me for my birthday one year when i was 9 now im fourteen, and there is still one shrimp living in it, and has been for ever

[killlroy1113]

I love the short text introduction. So much space,time and thus bandwidth wasted on long ones.

[Alubre]

how long can it last as a healthy ecosystem? and how many spieces could you find on it?

[eigio]

I don't know know long can it last, but my ecosystem lasted 1 year and 272 days, you can see the last picture at my website (read description). At the end all fauna died out. I counted approximately 25 fauna species. Now I have another ecosystem, also some pictures on my site (/eco1.html).

[pajamaninja367]

is this excessive algae or is this regular amount

[eigio]

I suspect that sunlight causes excess of algae(I placed my ecosphere on windowsill). My newer closed ecosystem get its light from day light lamp and there are more plants that use nitrates (not enough for algae), so now there is no algae (at the beginning there were, but it disappeared when plants started to grow and use nitrates).

[eigio]

Year has 365 days, it lasted 637d so it is 1y 272d.

[soFearless]

ok seriously, people dont read that fuckin fast! slow down the text sequences!

[eigio]

Of course they don't, but there is pause button, and I actually hate long intros, I want to see results first and then maybe explanation and longer part.

[krissmith1986]

just so I'm clear...this is a homemade ecosphere?

[eigio]

Yes, this is home made closed ecosystem.

[beyourcells]

nice

did it look that way when you bought it?

or is that green increasing?

thank you!

[eigio]

Well, mainly it was best looking at the beginning, over the time some plants went extinct and some organisms too, there are no snails anymore, bugs, some worms, some type of ostracods and more.

You can find picture series on my site in video description window.