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...
Can anyone give me any insight into appropriate light for a terrarium? I have a lidded 20 gallon fish tank that I'd like to use as a terrarium in a room that...
http://www.discoverpotsdam.com/~ecosphere/ I would appreciate if anyone here could help me contact the person who made that ecosphere in the above link, I just...
Hi everybody, I'm starting a new ecosystem, and I'd like some feedback on the setup I'm working on, tips and previous experiences with making artificial ...
This is a kinda quiet forum. Trouble is that advice is a little thin regarding this topic, unlike other forums with topics where there are lots of experts. ...
agreed. and i had to trash all but 2 of my spheres, neither of which i pay any attention to these days due to work. they're alive though, sealed, and ...
Not only the advice is thin, there are not too many experts in the field of sustainable biological systems out there (let alone closed sustainable systems),...
funny, cuz i don't remember you being one of them. since none of us are getting paid to do it, maybe some of us have jobs that are keeping us from the forum?...
I'm here, but I don't really know enough to post anything. --Al. ... From: jknilinux To: homemadebiospheres@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 8:15...