I'm working a project for school where we have to create a closed ecosystem in a 2-liter bottle. I want to do an aquatic biosphere, but I get different advice...
i had a 16 oz pasta sauce jar with like 3/4" of sand, a package of grown brine shrimp from the pet shop, and enough live unicellular algae (most important in...
... Fairly trivial with the right mix. ... One of the only shrimp i would recommend would be Red Volcanic Shrimp (Halocaridina rubra). They are used to harsh...
As far as yours goes, 2 liters of water takes a lot of options out of the picture. Bottom feeders, bettas, and shrimp are out, they are simply too big to live...
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/mewcstuff/ Will have a more serious attempt at a marine ecosphere later this year. Anybody know where I can get hold of the hawaiian...
... pretty cool... Sorry it died...I havn't had much luck with moss spheres either. Keep us updated over the next few weeks. I'm going to try a terrarium...
acuatic or land based, how long has yours survived? ive gotten acuatic to survive only a few days, i do own a ecosphere in fact and its alive and well, has...
all i've got left are two 2-liter soda bottles on my window sill, one sealed and one half-sealed since last summer. snails and green water for the most part,...
Has anyone managed to sustain a non-aquatic biosphere for any length of time? I am thinking of making some for a series of experiments and wish to know how...
I've been able to make a moss biosphere that's lasted about two and a half years now; it's in a clear (watertight-ish) tupperware container, and I water it...
As indicated many months earlier, Make Magazine issue #10 has an article about a Tabletop Biosphere my Martin John Brown (Martin, are you listening?). The...
i bought that issue randomly, and didn't know it was in there at all til i was flipping through it on the subway. i'll read it tomorrow and let you guys know...
Sure, I can post pictures in about a week or so... (I'm away from home right now). I think I'm also planning to start another, bigger terrestrial ecosphere...
I browsed through the article at the bookstore ( I balk at buying $15 magazines based on priciple alone). The article is good, brief, freshwater based and...
... ?! it's $34/year (4 issues). (8.50 each... which *is* high) is newsstand price that much more? headers are reporting GMT-0, so perhaps trans-atlantic...
not really. it's a high quality, technically still small-time niche market production that covers a broad range of interests within the range of making ...
Okay, I've posted some pictures now - They're in the grougp's photos, under the album called Xuan's Biospheres. Also, on another note, I answered most of the...
In the .pdf from Paragon, they describe the enclosed ecosystems used on Mir and space shuttle launches. In the paper they say: "A final draw- down of...
Hi everyone who has posted a link to the website. There are a number of bad links (at least 4) so each of the owners should check their links and either...
For those who haven't seen this site, he has some "opinions" on "those" closed systems. http://www.fukubonsai.com/M-L2e.html Nick Now it is time to get back to...
nk1165, ... i believe these suggestions are part and parcel of the same thing. basically i think what can happen in an algae-dominated system is that they...
1) I'd think that increased oxygen would generate the greater benefit in a biosphere, since higher levels of oxygen will usually bring the ph up (or at least...
I have seen the same general critique in several aquarium-related forums. If I can paraphrase the opinion, it is this: the Hawaiian Red Shrimp-based...
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