Several years ago, I set up a salt water vernal pool. It is a 5 gallon pickle jar and has some gravel, lava rock, salt water (obviously ;), and brine shrimp. ...
I'm new to this, and havent made one myself, but I'd love to and I'm into growing things in water already! I've always been interested in biosphers since I...
I saw these at wal-mart when i was searching for shit to build these on. They at first glance appeared to be sea monkies, but arent. They are like large brine...
... trilobytes. They do - and they are voracious! I had 5 swimming around in a jar once, and they were playing their own little game of Survivor. The next day...
Hi, Just joined because I started a biosphere project in Biology and wanted to see what ideas others had. Our group's has lots of elodea, two zebra fish, some...
Greetings all, I'm excited to discover this group's existence. I'm a writer doing a magazine piece about a closed ecological systems ("microcosms"), and ...
I'd say the only ingredients you can buy from an aquarium shop that are suitable for making a freshwater microcosm are gravel and (maybe) aquatic plants. The...
what are you talking about? you can do plenty with aquarium supplies, including guppies. i have some pictures of the ones i had and plenty of posts regarding...
... 1) What's the longest time you've had a guppy survive inside a completely sealed bottle? 2) How big was the bottle? ... Store-bought ecospheres, for...
Thanks so much for the responses. They will help me write my piece. Steve and Logic316, the advice I've gotten ( from one academic and one producer of...
I thought it was done for. I didn't see any thing moving most the summer. The organic matter was brown and create a film around the inside of the jar. Then is...
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Hey, I just joined and want to try to start one. Clearly the only way I'll learn is to do some experimenting. I think I'm going to start from that pdf from...
Hi there, it's nice to notice a bit of life on this group. (like an abandoned biojar, it just might surprise you...) I'm a reporter who wrote in here about a...
... one academic had looked into the issue of glass vs. plastic. though obviously there are lots of types of plastic, the kind she tried seemed to be leaking...
how do they SEAL them at nasa? the container store had beautiful 5 gallon sealable jars but they've got rubber seals and i'm afraid of it getting eaten...
Hi Jon, One important feature I'd recommend for any bio-container (which you see done in all the commercially-made ecospheres) is to leave plenty of air above...
I have created a new eco jar and uploaded some photos. Yesterday I went to the vernal pools that I created my first eco jar to start an new one. Though when I...
you...added a beetle...to an all-water jar? i don't wanna mock the effort, cuz i'm not, but you might be proverbially pissing in the pool cuz if it dies it'll...
Hi all, I'm starting my very first biosphere. I got some water from a pond, some hydrilla, some algae (I think) and a snail today. I think the water looks too...
you'd have to ask them to be sure. but i don't see why not. looking into culturing live foods for my fish tank (which spawned out of biospheres, ironically)...
That's a good question, actually. Those snowglobes aren't specifically designed to contain living things, so who knows what kinds of chemicals they make the...
Is Fukubonsai still alive. I got no reply on an email question. ... exactly ... they ... stuff ... like a ... $25. ... wrong ... Choxie candy jars ... ...
hi... i just joined this group cuz i want to learn how to make a biosphere....some-one suggested i make one with pond water....i live in southern arizona, in...
you could try aquarium live food cultures, or using brine shrimp. i'm gonna start some using daphnia or scuds soon, and i'm gonna buy the cultures since it's...
hi... i was thinking and came up with some more questions which i hope some-one has answers to... okay, i'm thinking of making a biosphere with little...
what you use would depend on fresh or salt water...i find fresh water's easier to just jump in and try, but brine shrimp's a easier to get a hold of. shrimp...
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