you gotta remember that it takes months to grow tomatoes, it wouldn'tve been able to sustain the mice long enough because the mice woulda just resorted to...
Hi: I made some sealed ecosystems about 15 years ago. I made most from pondwater, several from a stream that contained spagnum moss (those were really nice),...
Hi Grey, I do not agree with you about marine systems "not enclosing enough water to build up bacteria to keep the cycle going". It is not so much the build...
Rich: Thanks; I may try a marine one again someday; first I need some new bottles! Any other advise on it would be appreciated. Of course, I know that Spagnum...
Where in Jersey did you get this moss... I live in South Jersey and I may be able to help if its close... And I d like to start one.. Cheers Douglas...
Douglas: It was from Ocean County College. There is a little known Nature Walk that I used to go down. Very nice sundews and pitcher plants back there, too. Of...
hey, welcome! i've gotten a few saltwater ones to work for a few weeks to a half a year before dying out, with no real explanation. i've started wondering if...
Just a comment on kelp for a closed system: IMHO, I don't think you could ever get kelp to grow. Even the professional million gallon aquariums have trouble...
Rymel: I posted pictures of my last freshwater bottle. As you can see, it's quite small, but the floating algae is still healthy green after all these years...
rich - REALLY now. so much for the kelp idea. caulerpa it is! any other stupid easy salt plants? nick (hey that's my name too) - nice algae buildup! is it...
Nick: Everything is microscopic; it's just cool to look at the algea. It slowly shifts as the years go by. The aquarium filter crud is a great idea; I wish I...
If your looking for interesting bottle, try the second hand shops. Look in the glassware section. Or look in the section with coffee pots. I like the 60s...
Rymel, I'm right here ... we chatted a few times about the enclosed mouse habitat. I still find that experiment fascinating. TRhat said I'd be kicked out in...
Other easy salt plants would include bryopsis and chaetomorphia. One note on the caulerpa, because of the ban making it illegal to sell, buy, own, or import...
I'm sure there's dozens of marine tanks hobbyists in your neighborhood that through out pounds of that stuff each week when they clean their tanks. Rich...
Gee, is hobbyist salt water not good enough for you? The last time I was in Minneapolis, there was a pretty good turn out at the MRA(Mineapolis Reefkeepers...
i'd love to have both in a VERY LARGE and probably moderately sectioned off sphere. like 50 gallons, ha. don't they look like something out of starcraft? ...
i've heard a lot about the plant bans from the uniquaria list. it doesn't pertain to sales of plants grown in the US, so we should still be able to get the...
dude...what's up with the attitude. maybe he didn't know about it, or he didn't personally know any marine hobbyists (i know i don't, and there's plenty in...
yea, i remember you by the full name. it helps when it's short (like mine!), hehe. way back when you signed up you posted about nasa's biosphere systems....
Rymel, my 10 Gallon is kinda like your jar it seems. Ugly yet alive. It has reached some sort of balance but not as pretty as nature itself. I've been...
i dunno, mini-fauna, while also an indiscriminate grazers are much less likely to destroy their food source than mice are, and we all know how mice get... that...
'microbe jars done in the 60s' Not familiar with those...could you tell me more? Nick (new) ... still ... could ... One ... sell, buy, ... to get ... aren't ...
uhhh i can't remember the guy's name, i think it started with an F. check out kevin kelly's book 'out of control', i think he has it on his website kk.org. he...
Oddly, I think I have by negligence built a saltwater biosphere. I am not completely sure of what the criteria for a biosphere is, but here goes: I set up a 20...
It's not that salt plants got a harsher treatment, it was all because of the problem in the Mediteranean, Jacque Cousteou, and the Monaco Aqaurium which...
Hey Rymel(is that a first name or handle?), Yes, I have been following this group for a while now. I think I have even posted at time or two. Yes, I agree...
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