MAKE it at Home: Table-Top Biosphere - KQED QUEST

QUEST teams up with Make Magazine to construct the latest must have, do-it-yourself device hacks, whiz-bang gizmos and techno do-dads.

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[iluvj00]

you need some light on that set

[Everythingaquarium]

@dinoanimal15 hornwort

[yorj32]

can substitute aquarium water than pond water?

[KuroJenny]

Depents on your water. Often regular tap water has chlor and sometimes fluorid in it, (to keep it clean, its very very little, way less than in a swimming pool) Some put declorizer in it (to get the PH etc stable) but if you live on the country side and people are warning the city dudes not to drink the water than you can just put in the jar. I have water from a old well in mine. Mine is also 4 times bigger than that guys. So, it depents. You could ofcourse try it with tap and see what happends

[Pieishman]

pond snails shrimp, cepholopods, orthropods, various fresh water crustatians, small plants algae duck weed ect.

[Pieishman]

no pond scum has millions of little creatures and plants like snails shrimp cepholopods and orthropods. There are lots of small plants in it to so just useing shrimp would suck

[king4wheel]

can you use a cleaner shrimp? instead of the pond scum

[dinoanimal15]

thx but in the makemagazine wats that plant?

[TheReefTank]

i believe any aquarium plant would do but the guy was using hornwort.. you can find those easily at your local petstore such as petsmart. hornwort is probably easier to keep than the other plants the store have to sell

[dinoanimal15]

and wat was the other animal beside snails and fresh water shimp?