DIY Ecospheres and Biospheres

Your Bio-Sphere is a sealed, spherical enclosure containing plants and animals in perfect balance within an aquatic environment. It is an elegant, completely-enclosed ecosystem teeming with plants and animals in equilibrium. The environment is specifically tailored to support numerous life forms including aquatic plant life and animal life such as small snails, crustecea, and small water-borne animals. The plants provide oxygen (through photosynthesis) and food for the animals which in turn provide
carbon dioxide and nutrients for the plants! Inside your sphere, Red shrimps are sustained in a marine environment. You do not have to feed the shrimps or change their water. It's the perfect pet! Nothing enters or leaves the container, such as food, air, water or waste. The only elements required are light and heat. The light causes the micro algae to produce the oxygen and food for the Opae'ula, which in turn produce carbon dioxide and nutrients for the algae to grow.

Our planet is a closed system in which living organisms are sustained: a Bio-Sphere where nothing leaves or enters axcept sunlight. Paragon Space Development Corporation as captured the essence of this process in the Bio-Sphere. Now you can literally have A World of your Own!

Note: Information above extracted from www.bio-spheres.com...

These are two of the biospheres I made myself...they are not really sphere-shaped cause I used jars...Making them yourself is more cost effective compared to buying the commercially made ones...the shrimps in the video are red in colour, in case you cant see them...the main difference between the commercially made ones and mine are that mine is freshwater and theirs are saltwater...freshwater ecosystems are easier to make..and also alot cheaper...

Things needed to make your own bio-sphere (or eco-sphere):
1. Jar--a nice looking one can be bought for less than 3 bucks unless you use the lefover pickle jars in your fridge. Then, it's free.
2. Sand--can be bought in aquarium shops for a few bucks for small amounts. Not alot is needed.
3.Plants--also can be bought in aquarium shops for a few bucks. It is important that you do not overcrowd the jar with plants as it may kill the water animals inside.
4.Water animals--such as shrimps and snails. Try not to use fish as they are bigger and consume more oxygen and food. If you want your ecosphere to look like the commercially made ones, go to the aquarium shop and buy red shrimps. These are probably the most expensive part of making the ecospheres. Alternatively you can go to a pond and catch these water animals yourself.

Please also keep in mind to set up everything except the water animals and let it settle for a few days before putting the animals inside.

If you intend to use shrimps, I recommend putting in about 4 to 5 of them. 1 or 2 of them MAY die the first few days but it benefits the surviving shrimps as the dead body decomposes to encourage more algae growth to be a food and oxygen source for them.

As for the plants I recommend using the Japanese algae balls called Miramo as the shrimps will eat them at a constant rate. Then you wont have to worry about not having enough algae to keep the ecosystem stable.

Have fun making your own ecosystems! ;)

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[Guppy116]

Can I use gravel, it is medium sized?

[cyberkid2]

u can use anything u want...as long as u think it looks nice...

[Forkboy193]

The hamster is already in an ecosphere. YOU are in an ecosphere. We all are.

[monkEboy12]

Yes, of course. Then, we cin watch them drown.

[momstellaalec]

FIRST



[OctopusCabbage]

@TheAnimalGirl77 Yea those would probably work the best.

[TheAnimalGirl77]

Can I use ghost shrimp?

[CherubHorse]

Pretty cool :D I want more fish tanks but this may be as close as I'm getting to a no-maintenance tank. I already have a dog, 2 cats, a horse, 2 goldfish, a betta fish, and I'm getting a puppy soon LOL I just can't get enough of water animals though!!

[terry181365]

@ aqyariadesign..........really? look up the definition of an eco sphere/ bio dome is?, its the perfect balance....like earth.....duh. the shrimp get plenty of nutrients from the algae, which you can grow more of by putting it in brighter light......to much growing? move it away....... people are so dumb. i swear to god.

[PoneyRoseBleu]

amazing

[SuperJenny123456]

Ecospheres

[AquariaDesign]

Shrimps in these environments get smaller when they molt. They just can't get enough nutrients in these set ups. Sure they can last a while in these but the quality of life is poor....poor husbandry. It's a slow starvation.

[klett69]

did you seal the jars (with silicone for example) or do they let some tiny amount of air?

[duckism]

worst video ever... all I see is just sand and jerky movement....