Well said Soupmanbrown (is that what we call you?). I pondered how to bring into the requirements the "ethical treatment of the econauts" but dropped it due to...
Wow! that mouse device you linked to is a neat idea. Looks like they are focusing on environmental regulation a lot (because the idea is that the project...
In fact the Earth does have mechanisms that regulate humidity and other enviromental parameters. We tend to call them cold fronts, warm fronts, summer,...
Back in high school, I made an extremely successful sealed biosphere. I used a 1 gallon plastic juice bottle, aquarium water, aquarium gravel, plants called...
Xuan & nk1165, You both make really good points. On a philosophical level, I really agree that the goal is to create a system where lots of things can thrive,...
So I read the Make Magazine article and decided to take it upon myself to create the biosphere as described. It was quite easy and I'm fairly happy with the...
I made two biospheres today and only added the snails (waiting to get the shrimps later) and I was wondering if celery would be a good temporary, if not...
Generally, you don't want to introduce extra food or nutrients that don't have some other purpose. These will just encourage algal growth. I think algae are...
I was recently given a 14" (or so) glass bio-sphere with a wooden base. The only problem is I believe it is completely dead. It had been stored in a basement...
Well, there could be a number of reasons for why the animals in your biosphere aren't as active under low light. One possible reason is that high temperatures...
That helps alot. After trying the celery I realized the snails were dying, meaning they didnt have enough food and/or oxygen which was good to know before I...
First of all....The sphere creatures need light, thts why they died. So make sure to put the sphere near a window. Ghost shrimp (Costing $.30 sometimes less)...
Space? O.o What do u plan to do? Ride a plane and throw it up into space? XD Jk jk I think the underwater one is an awesome idea and so is underground. I want...
Hi this is my 1st post! Wanted to try a eco-sphere.. still trying to get bits and pieces info here and there.. any help would be great! anyway I was thinking...
Hi everyone, I started yesterday a biosphere in a 2 litres glass jar, it looked beautiful (see the pictures) but when I woke up this morning I had to admit...
Hmmm, I seem to have had close to the same problem, except my container was a bit smaller (fuji bottle size) and i used ghost shrimp (bad choice until algae...
tell me if this will work. i have a decently small size pickle jar. the bottom of it filled with gravel rocks from the petshop. i have a plant in there, a...
Well at least I can see I am not the only one to kill the shrimps. But the death of my two shrimps was so quick that something must have gone wrong. It was...
Back in grade 3 I made a biosphere from a 2 liter bottle and it lived about 4 years.(It fell off a table eventually) I put 1 or 2 inches of gravel at the...
I would say that that might not be a very good setup... For one thing, a pickle jar is much too small for basically any type of vertebrate, and a messy fish...
Please take a few minutes to wade through the following 9 paragraphs and see if you can come out the other side with a better understanding of how we could be...
I really want to make my own biosphere, but my mom doesn't want 1 in the house, and its currently a -30 Celsius winter here. I'm guessing that's too cold?...
I'm making a biosphere for my school exit project which I am required to do. The biosphere is still open so far and I have live brine shrimp that is going in....
For the most part there are now solid rules that guareentee success. The best article is in the Make Magazine website. Per your questions ... 1. Is algae going...
... These really are questions which you should be researching ourself. Asking folks outright isn't the best form of research. ;) ... What do Brine shrimp eat?...
Okay, so I ended up buying the little brine shrimp at a pet store. They were fine the first day but the next day half of them were dead. I put in some purified...
... Actually, algae is used in a lot of ecospheres to provide food and oxygen and remove CO2. Brine shrimp feed on algae. The trick is getting the right...
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