I make biospheres here in Singapore. I use water and media etc from the ponds in the botanic gardens. My retirement hobby!😊😊

This animal list is full of really good picks! Snails are vital to keeping an ecosphere clean and healthy! Amphipods are energetic and bioactive, breaking down larger items very effectively! Daphnia are powerful filter feeders, keeping hte water column pure! Flat worms River limpets are known for getting the really tough kinds of algae and biofilm that other snails sometimes can't!

Lucas is always in a pond somewhere

@WorcesterTerrariums

Жыл бұрын

I think you know lucas personally ☺️

thank you for taking a moment to show us the duckies

We all need access to a Lucas. Brilliant.

3:15 as someone who does mostly chemistry, i can tell you, never turn a ground glass joint without grease! always just lift it up, youre risking seizing it every time, and once its seazed, especially if it isnt boro glass, its really really hard to get out.

@low-cozmic3364

Жыл бұрын

Oh shit this happened to me about a month ago. I was so confused on why it wasn’t opening. My dad ended up breaking it. Thanks for the tip, really helpful!

@barnacleboy4487

9 ай бұрын

i have a scar on my pinky from seizing the bowl on my bong😭😭😭

This ecosphere is absolutely marvelous! I hope you’ll do some other videos like this! 🤩

This is awesome, could we get some updates on this as time goes on?

You are my idol lucas chicksand I remember seeing you around school and I love your epic toads and ecosphere. Love from ryad

I spend much time on a vessel at sea, and am often dreaming of the feasibility of such a thing that I might be able to take with me, so I might have some life to witness inside our steel cage. Would love to see a free and foraged version also, yet this is very helpful, thanks!

Content just gets better and better

@WorcesterTerrariums

Жыл бұрын

Thank you very much!

Okay…I LOVE Lucus! Does he have a channel?

hey you know your favorite terraruim the fish bowl one with the garlic snails, millipedes and isopods can you list a terreruim like that on your website

I'd love to do this, but it might be difficult to find an unpolluted stream in my area of Southern California 😄

@WorcesterTerrariums

Жыл бұрын

Aww does a friend have a pond?

@angrysnailbug

Жыл бұрын

maybe a park has a pond

I m glad you found Lucas

I learned sooo much!😀 Brilliant work!👏

I'm late to the party, but I've always wondered what would happen if plants from the local pond or creek were mixed in with some store bought plants. Would be interesting to see if one dominated the other or if they could coexist easily.

@brettpid6416

Жыл бұрын

many plants used in indoor aquariums are tropical or subtropical and thus are more likely to thrive at room temperature than native cold tolerant plants however it really depends on the plants there are slow and fast growing plants stem plants, floaters and epiphytes

Can't get enough of this channel ❤️😭😭

Amazing 😍 I love these videos 🖤

Very nice work 👍😍

Such a cool project. It seems a bit daunting though if you have no prior experience!

@WorcesterTerrariums

Жыл бұрын

Recruit a Lucas 😁

@LucasKarasinski

Жыл бұрын

@@WorcesterTerrariums Not me, though :D

Beautiful!

Can't wait for the update

@WorcesterTerrariums

Жыл бұрын

Me too! Thanks for watching ♥️

1:07 - Holy hell! You look like Heath Ledger!

So cool!

Terrarium and plants videos are very calming my anxiety and depression is starting to disappear thank you :)

Awesome.

i think that grass-like aquatic plant is vallisnera Nana, as some vallisnera at their juvenile stage looks similar to the smaller varieties, therefore sometimes people mistaken them as other varieties of vallisnera.

@lillekatt6293

Жыл бұрын

And the other plant could be a Rotala Rotundifolia in its emers state.

@WorcesterTerrariums

Жыл бұрын

Correct! A friend confirmed the rotala

@WorcesterTerrariums

Жыл бұрын

Ty!

These are my favourite ecospheres, the natural ones 🙂

Nice - really enjoyed watching this 👍 Apologies if the following is a dumb question, I know nothing about ecospheres! Do you have to do anything to prevent hypoxia with the lack of air/gas exchange or is the photosynthesis enough (if so, cool!)?

@coreyfinn5532

Жыл бұрын

The water plants would take carbon dioxide from the water and convert it to oxygen. There is no exceptionally large animals so oxygen use is small.

1:22 Love the watch, Lucas! Is it waterproof?

Bro I’d just take my shoes and socks off and walk straight into the pond. That’s what I normally do.

This is fascinating. How has it done over the long term?

Lucas is a proper geeza, id have a pint with him 😃🍻

@WorcesterTerrariums

Жыл бұрын

Agreed!

Where did you get the daphnia & flatworms?

I want to make one now!

Wait do you have to buy animals or if you just pick up dirt and plats and water for it will there be animals in it that you can see becuase I just made one from a pond

Lucas MVP!

How often do you take the lid off? Will you add water every few weeks/months? Love your videos!!

@thelittlethingsinlife239

9 ай бұрын

You don't need to remove the lid very often. With mine I only remove the lids when I'm trimming the plants 🙂

Did the blatter snails explode & kill everything? That happened in one of my fish tanks :(

Id love to see one with micro fish maybe thats self sustaining not just bugs thatd be wicked

When I make this eco system, do I need to take the cap off to give it air at all? I was told by one that I do and then I watch these videos on u tube and I don’t ever see or hear that the lids get removed at all?

@thelittlethingsinlife239

9 ай бұрын

You don't really. I only remove the lids when I'm trimming plants

I love ur voice

Big fan of this page. Just recently got into the idea of creating a terrarium and I have a question for you: would asparagus ferns survive in a terrarium with an open top? Or do they need a more humid environment than that?

@09amlenz

Жыл бұрын

You can plant asparagus ferns in just regular soil and a pot so an open terrarium should be just fine.

Whut about little little tiny organisms like stentors and planarians?

Would water/substrate from a canal work for an ecosystem?

@thelittlethingsinlife239

9 ай бұрын

Yes it would work just the same. Just remember it may take a couple of weeks for it to all settle and the water to clear

Where can you find them can you find them in streams

@WorcesterTerrariums

Жыл бұрын

The creatures? I believe lucas got them from a pond

Bruh contamination with the super glue

1:09 he was actually really cute here

Dude is the Joseph Gordon Levitt of biomes

Makeing a tiny ecosystem with fish and the fish liveing for a long time before I let them go is how I got a aquarium 😂 (sorry if this is wired but i am still sending it 😅)

he kinda looks like newt scamanda from harry potter

Duckies!

Update?

Why buy plants rather than collect them from the stream?

@WorcesterTerrariums

Жыл бұрын

I know that these plants work! ☺️

duckies :D

Shouldn’t there be predators to keep it balanced the population balanced?

Heath Ledger

Is it just me or does this channel host look a bit like Heath Ledger??

Why not make a terrarium from a polluted source? You could study how the organisms deal with pollution.

@thelittlethingsinlife239

9 ай бұрын

That's an idea 🙂

JOHN CENA??????????

please make a translator in Indonesian

There is not a moving (living) creature on earth, nor a bird that flies with its two wings, but are communities like you. We have neglected nothing in the Book, then unto their Lord they (all) shall be gathered. Quran [6:38]

Is the Jartopia channel aware of your plagiarism?

@Samantha777love

Жыл бұрын

How so?

@frowner_and_co

9 ай бұрын

Plagiarism? They didn't start the trend.

Never been a fan of caging animals. Whether that's a snail or a lion. Think i'll stick to plants 😊

I clicked on the video and immediately asked myself, why does he have boogers in a jar